Culture and redemption :religion, the secular, and American literature /Tracy Fessenden.
Description
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.
x, 337 p. :ill., port. ;25 cm.
Book Details
Author
Fessenden, Tracy.
Place Published
City
Princeton, N.J.
Date Published
2006
Publication Subjects
Secularism--United States.
Christianity and culture--United States.
American literature--History and criticism.
Religion and literature--United States.