Strange Jeremiahs [[electronic resource] ] : civil religion and the literary imaginations of Jonathan Edwards, Herman Melville, and W.E.B. Du Bois / / Carole Lynn Stewart
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Stewart Carole Lynn
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Strange Jeremiahs [[electronic resource] ] : civil religion and the literary imaginations of Jonathan Edwards, Herman Melville, and W.E.B. Du Bois / / Carole Lynn Stewart
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| Pubblicazione: | Albuquerque, : University of New Mexico Press, 2010 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (392 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 202/.3 |
| Soggetto topico: | Civil religion - United States - History |
| Soggetto geografico: | United States History |
| United States Politics and government | |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 349-362) and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | The beginning of the American Revolution in the conversion of Northampton. The travail of the Puritan covenant -- Original sin: human limitations and the openness of community -- God is no respecter of persons: the ordinary, lowly, and infantile nature of the revival -- The "strange revolution" and the aesthetics of grace -- The second great awakening, the national period, and Melville's American destiny. Pierre; or, The Ambiguities and the formation of the American dilemma -- A revolutionary marriage deferred -- The mystery of Melville's darkwoman -- From "self" to "soul": W.E.B. Du Bois's critical understanding of the ideals of liberal democracy in the new world. Strange Jeremiah: civil religion and the public intellectual -- Strivings and original sin: the unlovely, plural American soul -- The talented tenth and colonizing heroes -- Du Bois's aesthetic of beauty in the new world -- The irony of the American self. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | Stewart studies the writings of three American authors who all helped define civil religion through their expressions of the tradition of the jeremiad, or prophetic judgment of a people for backsliding from their destiny. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Strange Jeremiahs |
| ISBN: | 1-283-63694-8 |
| 0-8263-4681-2 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910781736203321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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Serie:
Religions of the Americas series.