The Turn Around Religion in America: Literature, Culture, and the Work of Sacvan Bercovitch

Author:   Michael P. Kramer ,  Nan Goodman
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
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Pages:   488
Publication Date:   25 November 2016
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Author:   Michael P. Kramer ,  Nan Goodman
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.453kg
ISBN:  

9781138268777


ISBN 10:   1138268771
Pages:   488
Publication Date:   25 November 2016
Audience:   College/higher education ,  General/trade ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

Contents: Foreword: the turn around: a panoramic view of religion in American literature, Nan Goodman; Part 1 Universals: Built into the system: where protest lies in Pietro di Donato's Christ in Concrete, Margaret Reid; Cosmopolitanism and Zoroastrianism in Moby-Dick, Cyrus R.K. Patell; Miguel Algarín's 'nuyorican angels' of night and the critique of enwhitened idealism, María DeGuzmán; Body and spirit in Paule Marshall's Praisesong for the Widow and James Baldwin's Go Tell It on the Mountain, Emory Elliott; The pious duties of Romantic historiography, Giuseppe Nori; Religion and the lonely subject: a note on Emerson's idealism, Michael J. Colacurcio; The Puritan in the photograph, Laura Wexler; Bad fathering in Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Jeanne Campbell Reesman; The Halachic Judaism of Emerson and Thoreau: a Freudian, Cavellian, and Bercovitchean perspective on the religious conduct of American life and liberty, Emily Miller Budick; Biblical typology and the Jewish American imagination, Michael P. Kramer; Robert Keaynes Nails, or a mercantilist's view of Christian charity, Nan Goodman. Part 2 Particularities: 'The God that was missing': poetry, divinity, everydayness, Irene Ramalho Santos; Playing God with beauty: from Hawthorne to Hairspray, Wendy Steiner; Politics, religion, and some poems about Sacco and Vanzetti, Lawrence Rosenwald; Edward Taylor's American Hebraism, Shira Wolosky; Depression journalism, social actuality, and the quest for salvation, Morris Dickstein; Levinas, ethics, and dissensus in the cinema of redemption, Sam B. Girgus; Hell in Mexican Texas: Stephen Crane at the American abyss, Jaime Javier Rodríguez; German, Jewish, American: magic words that define Judaism in the Cincinnati Deborah, Werner Sollors; Demythologizing America: Nathanael West and Sacvan Bercovitch, Donald Weber; The ironic style of Sacvan Bercovitch, Andrew DuBois; Afterword: turn, turn, turn: on Sacvan Bercovitch, Ecclesiastes, and American literary study, Michael P. Kramer; Works cited; Index.

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'...this collection addresses Bercovitch’s characteristic themes during a long career at Columbia and, ultimately, Harvard...This reviewer cannot imagine the Americanist who will not need to refer to this book at least once in his/her career...Highly recommended.' Choice ’This volume testifies to the productivity of thinking through scrupulously imaginative textual analysis to understand the many ways religious sensibility and structures have functioned in the history of the United States, from its colonial past into its multicultural present, and in doing this it demonstrates the vital power of Sacvan Bercovitch’s body of work.’ Jonathan Arac, University of Pittsburgh, USA


'...this collection addresses Bercovitch's characteristic themes during a long career at Columbia and, ultimately, Harvard...This reviewer cannot imagine the Americanist who will not need to refer to this book at least once in his/her career...Highly recommended.' Choice 'This volume testifies to the productivity of thinking through scrupulously imaginative textual analysis to understand the many ways religious sensibility and structures have functioned in the history of the United States, from its colonial past into its multicultural present, and in doing this it demonstrates the vital power of Sacvan Bercovitch's body of work.' Jonathan Arac, University of Pittsburgh, USA


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Nan Goodman is Associate Professor of English at the University of Colorado at Boulder, USA, and Michael P. Kramer is Professor Haver in the Department of English at Bar-Ilan University, Israel.

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