Culture and Redemption : : Religion, the Secular, and American Literature / / Tracy Fessenden.
Many Americans wish to believe that the United States, founded in religious tolerance, has gradually and naturally established a secular public sphere that is equally tolerant of all religions--or none. Culture and Redemption suggests otherwise. Tracy Fessenden contends that the uneven separation of...
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Fessenden, Tracy, Fessenden, Tracy, Culture and Redemption : Religion, the Secular, and American Literature / Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part One. Protestantism and the Social Space of Reading -- CHAPTER ONE. Legible Dominion: Puritanism's New World Narrative -- CHAPTER TWO. Protestant Expansion, Indian Violence, and Childhood Death: The New England Primer -- CHAPTER THREE. From Disestablishment to "Consensus": The Nineteenth-Century Bible Wars and the Limits of Dissent -- CHAPTER FOUR. Conversion to Democracy: Religion and the American Renaissance -- PART TWO: Secular Fictions -- CHAPTER FIVE. From Romanism to Race: Uncle Tom's Cabin -- CHAPTER SIX Mark Twain and the Ambivalent Refuge of Unbelief -- CHAPTER SEVEN. Secularism, Feminism, Imperialism: Charlotte Perkins Gilman and the Progress Narrative of U.S. Feminism -- CHAPTER EIGHT. F. Scott Fitzgerald's Catholic Closet -- AFTERWORD. American Religion and the Future of Dissent -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part One. Protestantism and the Social Space of Reading -- CHAPTER ONE. Legible Dominion: Puritanism's New World Narrative -- CHAPTER TWO. Protestant Expansion, Indian Violence, and Childhood Death: The New England Primer -- CHAPTER THREE. From Disestablishment to "Consensus": The Nineteenth-Century Bible Wars and the Limits of Dissent -- CHAPTER FOUR. Conversion to Democracy: Religion and the American Renaissance -- PART TWO: Secular Fictions -- CHAPTER FIVE. From Romanism to Race: Uncle Tom's Cabin -- CHAPTER SIX Mark Twain and the Ambivalent Refuge of Unbelief -- CHAPTER SEVEN. Secularism, Feminism, Imperialism: Charlotte Perkins Gilman and the Progress Narrative of U.S. Feminism -- CHAPTER EIGHT. F. Scott Fitzgerald's Catholic Closet -- AFTERWORD. American Religion and the Future of Dissent -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index |
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