| Description |
xxx, 317 pages ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [297]-314). |
| Contents |
Designs on history : Ezra Pound, the Puritans, and self-fulfilling prophecies / Mutlu Konuk Blasing -- T.S. Eliot's Calvinist modernism / Loris Mirella -- "Inherited Puritanism" : the legacy of Calvinism in the fiction of William Dean Howells / Elsa Nettels -- The modernist conversion of Willa Cather's Professor / John J. Murphy -- Grace, good works, and the Hemingway ethic / George Monteiro -- Sites of struggle : Marianne Moore and American Calvinism / Jeredith Merrin -- Awe, wonder, and wit : Elizabeth Bishop and the modernization of Calvinist mood / Elisa New -- Puritan legacies of masculinity : John Berryman's Homage to Mistress Bradstreet / Ivy Schweitzer -- Mastering the master : Emily Dickinson's appropriation of crisis conversion / Aliki Barnstone -- Calvinist tortures in Edith Wharton's Ethan Frome / Carol J. Singley -- Un-utterable longing : the discourse of feminine sexuality in Kate Chopin's The awakening / Cynthia Griffin Wolff -- The fatherlode : Ellen Glasgow's religious inheritance / Susan Goodman -- Apocalypse now and the New England Way / Milton J. Bates -- New Jerusalems : contemporary Jewish American poets and the Puritan tradition / Jonathan N. Barron -- The "dark and abiding presence" in Nathaniel Hawthorne's The scarlet letter and Toni Morrison's Beloved / Jane Cocalis -- Poetry and masculinity on the Anglo/Chicano border : Gary Soto, Robert Frost, and Robert Hass / Michael Tomasek Manson -- "Communism is twentieth-century Americanism" : proletarian poetry and the Puritan tradition / Rocco Marinaccio. |
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Calvin, Jean, 1509-1564 -- Influence.
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American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
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Calvinism in literature.
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American literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
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Christianity and literature -- United States.
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American literature -- European influences.
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Modernism (Literature) -- United States.
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Calvinism -- United States -- History.
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Puritan movements in literature.
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Protestantism and literature.
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| Added Author |
Barnstone, Aliki.
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Manson, Michael Tomasek.
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Singley, Carol J., 1951-
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| ISBN |
0874518075 alkaline paper |
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0874518083 paperback alkaline paper |
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