Culture and redemption: religion, the secular, and American literature
Protestantism and the social space of reading. Legible dominion: Puritanism's new world narrative ; Protestant expansion, Indian violence, and childhood death: the New England primer ; From disestablishment to consensus: the nineteenth-century Bible wars and the limits of dissent ; Conversion t...
| Summary: | Protestantism and the social space of reading. Legible dominion: Puritanism's new world narrative ; Protestant expansion, Indian violence, and childhood death: the New England primer ; From disestablishment to consensus: the nineteenth-century Bible wars and the limits of dissent ; Conversion to democracy: religion and the American Renaissance -- Secular fictions. From Romanticism to race: Uncle Tom's cabin ; Mark Twain and the ambivalent refuge of unbelief ; Secularism, feminism, imperialism: Charlotte Perkins Gilman and the progress narrative of U.S. feminism ; F. Scott Fitzgerald's Catholic closet -- Afterword: American religion and the future of dissent |
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| Item Description: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
| ISBN: | 0691049637 |