Above the American renaissance : David S. Reynolds and the spiritual imagination in American literary studies /
"Above the American Renaissance takes David S. Reynolds's classic study Beneath the American Renaissance as a model and a provocation to consider how language and concepts broadly defined as spiritual are essential to understanding nineteenth-century American literary culture. In the 1980s...
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University of Massachusetts Press,
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Table of Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: Tracking and Theorizing the Spiritual Turn in American Literary Studies / Harold K. Bush
- pt. I Reconstructing the Spiritual and the Secular
- ch. 1 Haunted America
- Reading the Spiritual Turn / Tracy Fessenden
- ch. 2 "The Spirit of Instructive Investigation"
- Bronson Alcott, Transcendental Childhood, and the Search for Divinity / John Matteson
- ch. 3 Secular Melancholy
- Religious Skepticism and the "Literature of Misery" / Dawn Coleman
- ch. 4 Whittier and the Mormons
- From Folk Magic to Freedom and Back Again / Zachary McLeod Hutchins
- ch. 5 "Will He Perish?"
- Moby-Dick and Nineteenth-Century Extinction Discourse / Timothy Sweet
- pt. II Reconstructing the Scriptures
- ch. 6 Higher Reading
- Uncle Tom's Cabin and Biblical Higher Criticism / Gail K. Smith
- ch. 7 "Art of Attaining Truth" in Moby-Dick
- Print Technologies, Hermeneutics, and Castaway Readers / Jeffrey Bilbro
- ch. 8 "New-born Bard[s] of the Holy Ghost"
- American Bibles of Walt Whitman and Joseph Smith / Michael Robertson
- ch. 9 Other Traditions of Palestine
- 1863 Novel by Ebenezer Wheelwright / Richard Kopley
- ch. 10 Millennial Impulse above the American Renaissance
- From Jonathan Edwards to Charles Grandison Finney and the Second Great Awakening / Mason I. Lowance, Jr.
- pt. III Reconstructing Popular Religion
- ch. 11 Hymns by the Fireside
- Religious Verse and the Rise and the Fall of the Fireside Poets / Claudia Stokes
- ch. 12 Keeping the Sabbath at Home
- Emily Dickinson and the Rise of Private Hymnody / Christopher N. Phillips
- ch. 13 "The Nearest Dream Recedes
- Unrealized"
- Emily Dickinson, Thomas Wentworth Higginson, and Fascicle 14 / Vivian R. Pollak
- ch. 14 Harriet Beecher Stowe and Martyrdom
- Protestant Missions in Uncle Tom's Cabin and Uncle Tom's Cabin in Protestant Missions / Brian Yothers
- ch. 15 "God Will Give Him Blood to Drink"
- Unholy Dying in The House of the Seven Gables / Jonathan A. Cook.
