Strange Jeremiahs : civil religion and the literary imaginations of Jonathan Edwards, Herman Melville, and W.E.B. Du Bois, Carole Lynn Stewart

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Strange Jeremiahs : civil religion and the literary imaginations of Jonathan Edwards, Herman Melville, and W.E.B. Du Bois, Carole Lynn Stewart

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civil religion and the literary imaginations of Jonathan Edwards, Herman Melville, and W.E.B. Du Bois

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Carole Lynn Stewart

Instantiates

• Strange Jeremiahs : civil religion and the literary imaginations of Jonathan Edwards, Herman Melville, and W.E.B. Du Bois

Publication

• Albuquerque, University of New Mexico Press, 2010

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 349-362) and index

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online resource

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cr

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rdacarrier

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multicolored

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text

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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

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ocn759158379

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1 online resource (xiv, 375 pages)

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online

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9781283636940

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rdamedia

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remote

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• (OCoLC)759158379
• pebcs0826346812