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from: UPNE
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 810.9382842
EAN: 9780874518085
ISBN: 0874518083
Label: UPNE
Manufacturer: UPNE
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 347
Publication Date: May 15, 1997
Publisher: UPNE
Sales Rank: 1335818
Studio: UPNE
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Product Description:
Multidisciplinary views of Calvinism's dynamic, diverse, and persistent influence on modern American literature and thought.
Many of America's philosophical, social, and religious traditions are founded upon Calvinist beliefs, and that heritage inevitably permeates our literature, too. While the debt of 18th- and 19th-century writers to Calvinism as theological doctrine and secular ideology has already been well documented, this collection of essays traces Calvinism's presence in 20th-century literature and demonstrates its impact as psychological construct, cultural institution, and socio-political model. From Pound to Faulkner, Eliot to Wharton, modern American poets, novelists, and film-makers of different religious, ethnic, and regional backgrounds have breathed in the Calvinist atmosphere. With fresh illuminations of the works of Marianne Moore, Willa Cather, Ernest Hemingway, Elizabeth Bishop, Kate Chopin, and others, this book cuts across disciplines, periods, and genres to examine the presence of such Calvinist concepts as election, conversion experiences, duty, sexual repression, and apocalypse. The editors conclude that, rather than being a monolithic force, Calvinism has 'instead been dynamic, as different writers redefine and restructure it to fit their purposes and beliefs.'
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