Rongo Univesity Library

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Foreword -- The turn around religion in America / Nan Goodman -- 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 Algar�in's "Nuyorican angels" of night and the critique of enwhitened idealism / Mar�ia Deguzm�an -- Body and sprit [sic] 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 Colarcurcio -- 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 Bercovitchian perspective on the religious conduct of American life and liberty / Emily Miller Budick -- Biblical typology and the Jewish American imagination / Michael P. Kramer -- Robert Keayne's Nails, or a mercantilist's view of Christian charity / Nan Goodman -- 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 / J. Javier Rodr�iguez -- 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.

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