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Strange Jeremiahs : civil religion and the literary imaginations of Jonathan Edwards, Herman Melville, and W.E.B. Du Bois /
Published 2010Table of Contents: “…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. …”
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A William V. Spanos reader : humanist criticism and the secular imperative /
Published 2015Table of Contents: “…Richards -- Culture and colonization : the imperial imperatives of the centered circle -- Heidegger, Foucault, and the "empire of the gaze" : thinking the territorialization of knowledge -- "Benito Cereno" and "Bartleby, the scrivener" : reflections on the American calling -- American exceptionalism and the secular turn -- The question of philosophy and poiesis in the post-historical age : thinking/imagining the shadow of metaphysics -- Edward Said's humanism and American exceptionalism : an interrogation after 9/11 -- Herman Melville's Pierre; or, the ambiguities and Jane Austen's Mansfield Park : the imperial violence of the novel of manners -- The calling and the question of the secular -- Arab Spring, 2011 : a symptomatic reading of the revolution -- In lieu of a conclusion: a discussion between William V. …”
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William Gilmore Simms's selected reviews on literature and civilization /
Published 2014Table of Contents: “…Robert Browning's Poems (September 1850) -- Alfred Lord Tennyson's In Memoriam (November 1850) -- William Wordsworth's The Prelude, or Growth of a Poet's Mind (November 1850) -- Nathaniel Hawthorne's The House of the Seven Gables (July 1851) -- Christopher Wordsworth's Memoirs of William Wordsworth (July 1851) -- Margaret Fuller's Memoirs (1852) -- Herman Melville's Moby-Dick (January 1852) -- Herman Melville's Pierre, or the Ambiguities (October 1852) -- Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Blithedale Romance (October 1852) -- J.V. …”
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