Fessenden Culture and Redemption

Religion, the Secular, and American Literature
Course Book
ISBN: 978-1-4008-3730-4
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
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E-Book, Englisch, 352 Seiten

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Autoren/Hrsg.

Fessenden, Tracy

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur Amerikanische Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religion & Politik, Religionsfreiheit

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments ix

INTRODUCTION 1

PART ONE: Protestantism and the Social Space of Reading 13

CHAPTER ONE: Legible Dominion: Puritanism's New World Narrative 15

CHAPTER TWO: Protestant Expansion, Indian Violence, and Childhood Death: The New England Primer 34

CHAPTER THREE: From Disestablishment to "Consensus": The Nineteenth-Century Bible Wars and the Limits of Dissent 60

CHAPTER FOUR: Conversion to Democracy: Religion and the American Renaissance 84

PART TWO: Secular Fictions 109

CHAPTER FIVE: From Romanism to Race: Uncle Tom's Cabin 111

CHAPTER SIX: Mark Twain and the Ambivalent Refuge of Unbelief 137

CHAPTER SEVEN: Secularism, Feminism, Imperialism: Charlotte Perkins Gilman and the Progress Narrative of U.S. Feminism 161

CHAPTER EIGHT: F. Scott Fitzgerald's Catholic Closet 181

AFTERWORD: American Religion and the Future of Dissent 213

Notes 219

Bibliography 289

Index 323

Über Autor(innen)

Tracy Fessenden is Associate Professor of Religious Studies and Women's and Gender Studies at Arizona State University. She is the coeditor of The Puritan Origins of American Sex: Religion, Sexuality, and National Identity in American Literature.