Strange Jeremiahs civil religion and the literary imaginations of Jonathan Edwards, Herman Melville, and W.E.B. Du Bois /
Stewart, Carole Lynn.
Strange Jeremiahs civil religion and the literary imaginations of Jonathan Edwards, Herman Melville, and W.E.B. Du Bois / [electronic resource] : Carole Lynn Stewart. - Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, 2010. - xiv, 375 p. - Religions of the Americas series . - Religions of the Americas series. .
Includes bibliographical references (p. 349-362) and index.
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.
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
9780826346810 (electronic bk.)
Edwards, Jonathan, 1703-1758 --Criticism and interpretation.
Melville, Herman, 1819-1891 --Criticism and interpretation.
Du Bois, W. E. B. 1868-1963 --Criticism and interpretation.
Civil religion--History.--United States
United States--History.
United States--Politics and government.
Electronic books.
BL2525 / .S7525 2010
202/.3
Strange Jeremiahs civil religion and the literary imaginations of Jonathan Edwards, Herman Melville, and W.E.B. Du Bois / [electronic resource] : Carole Lynn Stewart. - Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, 2010. - xiv, 375 p. - Religions of the Americas series . - Religions of the Americas series. .
Includes bibliographical references (p. 349-362) and index.
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.
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
9780826346810 (electronic bk.)
Edwards, Jonathan, 1703-1758 --Criticism and interpretation.
Melville, Herman, 1819-1891 --Criticism and interpretation.
Du Bois, W. E. B. 1868-1963 --Criticism and interpretation.
Civil religion--History.--United States
United States--History.
United States--Politics and government.
Electronic books.
BL2525 / .S7525 2010
202/.3