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

By: Stewart, Carole LynnContributor(s): ProQuest (Firm)Material type: TextTextSeries: Religions of the Americas seriesPublication details: Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, 2010Description: xiv, 375 pISBN: 9780826346810 (electronic bk.)Subject(s): Edwards, Jonathan, 1703-1758 -- Criticism and interpretation | Melville, Herman, 1819-1891 -- Criticism and interpretation | Du Bois, W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt), 1868-1963 -- Criticism and interpretation | Civil religion -- United States -- History | United States -- History | United States -- Politics and governmentGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 202/.3 LOC classification: BL2525 | .S7525 2010Online resources: Click to View
Contents:
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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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.

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