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

Main Author: Stewart, Carole Lynn.
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, 2010.
Series:Religions of the Americas series
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Online Access:http://site.ebrary.com/lib/ucy/Doc?id=10492353
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300 |a xiv, 375 p. 
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504 |a Includes bibliographical references (p. 349-362) and index. 
505 0 |a 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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600 1 0 |a Melville, Herman,  |d 1819-1891  |x Criticism and interpretation. 
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