The shaping of the American character.--Declension in a Bible commonwealth.--"Preparation for salvation" in seventeenth-century New England.--The Great Awakening from 1740 to 1750.--From the covenant to the revival.--The insecurity of nature.--Theodore Parker: apostasy within liberalism.--The location of American religious freedom.--Emersonian genius and the American democracy.--Thoreau in the context of international romanticism.--Melville and transcendentalism.--The romantic dilemma in American nationalism and the concept of nature.--An American language.--The romance and the novel.--Sinners in the hands of a benevolent God.
xvi, 298 p.24 cm.
Book Details
Author
Miller, Perry
Publication Subjects
Philosophy, American.
Call No.
E169.1 .M635
LCCN
67017316
Notes
Bibliography Note: Bibliographical footnotes.
Publication Info: Cambridge,Belknap Press of Harvard University Press,1967.