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. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2013. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
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.