| Description |
1 online resource (xi, 302 pages) |
| Contents |
Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction. Above the American Renaissance -- Part I Reconstructing the Spiritual and the Secular -- Chapter 1. Haunted America -- Chapter 2. "The Spirit of Instructive Investigation" -- Chapter 3. Secular Melancholy -- Chapter 4. Whittier and the Mormons -- Chapter 5. "Will He Perish?" -- Part II Reconstructing the Scriptures -- Chapter 6. Higher Reading -- Chapter 7. The "Art of Attaining Truth" in Moby-Dick -- Chapter 8. "New-born Bard[s] of the Holy Ghost" -- Chapter 9. The Other Traditions of Palestine -- Chapter 10. The Millennial Impulse above the American Renaissance -- Part III Reconstructing Popular Religion -- Chapter 11. Hymns by the Fireside -- Chapter 12. Keeping the Sabbath at Home -- Chapter 13. "The Nearest Dream Recedes -- Unrealized" -- Chapter 14. Harriet Beecher Stowe and Martyrdom -- Chapter 15. "God Will Give Him Blood to Drink" -- Afterword. God Above, America Beneath -- Contributors -- Index |
| Summary |
"Above the American Renaissance takes David S. Reynolds's classic study Beneath the American Renaissance as a model and a provocation to consider how language and concepts broadly defined as spiritual are essential to understanding nineteenth-century American literary culture. In the 1980s, Reynolds's scholarship and methodology enlivened investigations of religious culture, and since then, for reasons that include a rising respect for interdisciplinarity and the aftershocks of the 9/11 attacks, religion in literature has become a major area of inquiry for Americanists. In essays that reconsider and contextualize Emily Dickinson, Walt Whitman, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Herman Melville, Abraham Lincoln, and others, this volume captures the vibrancy of spiritual considerations in American literary studies and points a way forward within literary and spiritual investigations. In addition to the editors and David S. Reynolds, contributors include Jeffrey Bilbro, Dawn Coleman, Jonathan A. Cook, Tracy Fessenden, Zachary Hutchins, Richard Kopley, Mason I. Lowance Jr. John Matteson, Christopher N. Phillips, Vivian Pollak, Michael Robertson, Gail K. Smith, Claudia Stokes, and Timothy Sweet"-- Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on July 20, 2018) |
| Subject |
Reynolds, David S., 1948- Beneath the American Renaissance.
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| SUBJECT |
Reynolds, David S., 1948- Beneath the American Renaissance
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| Subject |
American literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism
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Spirituality in literature.
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Religion in literature.
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Religion and literature -- United States -- History -- 19th century
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General.
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American literature
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Religion and literature
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Religion in literature
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Spirituality in literature
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United States
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Bush, Harold K. (Harold Karl), 1956-2021, editor
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Yothers, Brian, 1975- editor
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| LC no. |
2017055748 |
| ISBN |
9781613766002 |
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1613766009 |
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9781613766019 |
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1613766017 |
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