Mystic Sails, Texas Trails : Captain Grimes, Shanghai Pierce, Range Wars, and Raising Texas / by Davant, Robert, 1932-, Herskowitz, Mickey

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Mystic sails, Texas trails / by Davant, Robert, 1932-, Herskowitz, Mickey

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Walt Whitman's mystical ethics of comradeship : homosexuality and the marginality of friendship at the crossroads of modernity / by Herrero-Brasas, Juan A.

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Literature as religion : Whitman's messianic enterprise -- The building of a reputation -- Theosophy, the occult, and Whitman's apparitions -- The character of Whitman's religion -- The creed -- The mystic hypothesis -- The strong hypothesis -- The weak hypothesis -- The denial of the hypothesis -- A gospel of beauty -- The classical roots of aestheticism -- Whitman and the platonic tradition -- From phrenology to aesthetic morality -- Whitman's treatment of the ugly : the "kosmic" vision -- Whitman and Nietzsche -- Whitman and Oscar Wilde -- The love of comrades -- A messianic mission -- The nature of comradeship -- Eduard Bertz : comradeship as veiled homosexuality -- Mystical interpretations of comradeship -- Ethical aspects of comradeship -- Religious aspects of comradeship -- Social and political aspects of comradeship -- Whitman's comradeship and Symonds's concept of Greek love -- Whitman, the moral reformer -- Poetry and ethics : Whitman's moral concern -- The character of Whitman's new morality -- An analysis of Whitman's morality : Briggs's theory -- Whitman's attitude to war -- Robert K. …”
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The heterodox Hegel / by O'Regan, Cyril, 1952-

Table of Contents: “…Spiritual Community (Gemeinde): Corpus Mysticum. Sect. 5.2. Complex Mystical Determination: Complex Mystical Inflection. …”
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The rise of the Niʻmatullāhī order : Shiʻite Sufi masters against Islamic fundamentalism in 19th-century Persia / by Tabandeh, Reza

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A romance of two worlds / by Corelli, Marie, 1855-1924

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God's scrivener : the madness and meaning of Jones Very / by Davis, Clark

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Contesting spirit : Nietzsche, affirmation, religion / by Roberts, Tyler T., 1960-

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The Lincoln trail in Pennsylvania : a history and guide / by Hoch, Bradley R., 1948-

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Searching for Madre Matiana : prophecy and popular culture in modern Mexico / by Wright-Rios, Edward N. 1965-

Table of Contents: “…Part I: A National Seer -- Mystical Matters, Mystical Madres: The Legacy of Female Piety in Mexico -- The Protagonists of Print -- Of Almanacs and Magic Lanterns -- Nuestra vidente: Mexico's Messenger of Catholic Resurgence -- Part II: Fitting Fanáticas -- Eso no tiene madre: Satire and Seer in Revolutionary Mexico -- Picturing the Prophetess: Lola Álvarez Bravo's Madre Matiana -- A Disjointed Modernity: Madre Matiana and the Writings of Agustín Yáñez -- Conclusion: Mexico's Matianas.…”
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The Evolution of Walt Whitman. by Asselineau, Roger

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Nineteenth-century religion and literature : an introduction / by Knight, Mark, 1972-

Table of Contents: “…Dissent: Wesley to Blake -- Unitarianism: Priestley to Gaskell -- The Oxford movement: Wordsworth to Hopkins -- Evangelicalism: Brontë to Eliot -- Secularization: Dickens to Hardy -- Catholicism and mysticism: Huysmans to Chesterton.…”
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Fighting words : imperial censorship and the Russian press, 1804-1906 / by Ruud, Charles A., 1933-

Table of Contents: “…The European pattern and the beginnings of Russian censorship -- The early administrative system and the rise of mysticism, 1801-17 -- Golitsyn's fall and the decline of mysticism, 1817-1825 -- Nicholas I's censorship innovation, 1825-32 -- Censorship and the new journalism, 1832-48 -- A system under siege, 1848-55 -- Confused steps toward reform, 1855-61 -- The dilemmas of liberal censorship, 1862-63 -- The reform of 6 April 1865 -- The first year of the reformed system, 1865-66 -- Control of press freedom : warnings, court cases, and libel laws, 1867-69 -- Censorship, repression, and the emergence of a 'European' press, 1869-89 -- The last years of the administrative system, 1889-1906 -- Autocracy and the press : the historic conflict.…”
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Ordinary masochisms : agency and desire in Victorian and modernist fiction / by Mitchell, Jennifer, 1982-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction A Tale of Two Terms -- Mythologizing Masochisms -- Villette's Erotic Experimentation -- A Drama in Muslin's Queer Mysticism -- Interlude. Murderous Masochism in The Torture Garden -- The Rainbow's Generational Masochisms -- Quartet's Modernist Muddles -- Conclusion Murderous Masochism in The Comfort of Strangers -- Afterword: Reading Masochisms…”
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Spiritualism in the American Civil War / by Lande, R. Gregory

Table of Contents: “…Cover -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- One-Antebellum Spiritualism -- Two-Science, Religion and Mysticism -- Three-Spiritualism During the Civil War -- Four-Doctrine, Dilemmas and Doubts -- Five-Assassination, Resurrection and Exploitation -- Six-Spreading the Faith -- Seven-Phantoms of War -- Eight-Pathos, Politics and Presumptions -- Chapter Notes -- Bibliography -- Index…”
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The pulse of the earth : political geology in Java / by Bobbette, Adam, 1980-

Table of Contents: “…Political Geology as Method -- The Origins of Java in Four Maps: From an Island of Ruins to Youthful Throes -- Intercalated: The Political and Spiritual Geographies of Plate Tectonics -- AD 1006 Geodeterminism: Cultures of Catastrophe and the Story of a Date -- Geopoetics: Johannes Umbgrove's Cosmic and Aesthetic Science -- Volcano Observatories: Proximity and Distance in Science and Mysticism.…”
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Private lives of the ancient mariner : Coleridge and his children / by Lefebure, Molly

Table of Contents: “…Taper in a cottage window -- part four. A mystic peregrination -- part five. Trailing clouds of glory -- part six. …”
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Maladies of the will : the American novel and the modernity problem / by Fleissner, Jennifer

Table of Contents: “…The novel and the will -- Before and after the novel: abyssal modernity and the interior life of the will -- Vitalizing the bildungsroman -- General willfulness: Moby-Dick and romantic sovereignty -- The James Brothers at century's end: mysticism, abstraction, and the forms of social life -- "Begin all over again": naturalism, habit, and the embodiment of the will -- Narrative and its discontents: racial justice, existential action, and the problem of the past.…”

Free spirits : spiritualism, Republicanism, and radicalism in the Civil War era / by Lause, Mark A.

Table of Contents: “…America's 1848: Republican spirits in revolt -- The soul of a republic -- Free Democrats to the Republicans: radical spiritualists and the antislavery insurgency -- The mystical union: the Republican medium of the national destiny -- Father Abraham: president Lincoln and the spirit of the Union -- The promise of a republic -- Liberty: toward a rational spirit of freedom -- Equality: race and gender -- Fraternity: reconstructing a movement and the nation -- Long shadows: the legacies of Civil War-era spiritualism.…”
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Conscience and conversion : religious liberty in post-revolutionary France / by Kselman, Thomas A. 1948-

Table of Contents: “…Lamennais, Catholicism, and Freedom of Conscience -- Mysticism, Despair, and Progress: George Sand's Pursuit of Religious Liberty -- Philology and Freedom: Ernest Renan's Struggle with Catholicism.…”
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