Clashing Convictions : Science and Religion in American Fiction.
Clashing Convictions: Science and Religion in American Fiction is the first study to identify a body of twentieth-century American fiction that represents the increasing tensions experienced by people of Christian faith in response to Darwinism, the higher biblical criticism, and modern medicine. De...
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| Language: | English |
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Chicago :
Ohio State University Press,
2016.
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| Series: | Literature, Religion, & Postsecular Stud.
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Table of Contents:
- Half Title Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; INTRODUCTION Terminology and Purpose; PART 1 INTERNAL STATES OF BELIEF AND UNBELIEF; CHAPTER 1 Emergent Formations of the Science-Religion Binary: Sara Orne Jewett's A Country Doctor, Edward Eggleston's The Faith Doctor, Milton Scott's Henry Elwood, and Henry Adams's Esther; CHAPTER 2 The New Biblical Criticism and Darwinism: Harold Frederic's The Damnation of Theron Ware; CHAPTER 3 An American Response to Darwinism: James Lane Allen's The Reign of Law.
- CHAPTER 4 An Enlightenment Critique of Religious Mania: W.D. Howells's The Leatherwood GodPART 2 SECULARISM RESURGENT; CHAPTER 5 A Research Scientist's Religion: Sinclair Lewis's Arrowsmith; CHAPTER 6 Satirizing Fundamentalist Education and Revivalist Preachers: Sinclair Lewis's Elmer Gantry; CHAPTER 7 Transhistorical Parable: Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee's Inherit the Wind; PART 3 A POSTSECULAR AGE?; CHAPTER 8 Contemporary Perspectives: James Scott Bell's The Darwin Conspiracy and the Soul of America; Bibliography; Index.
