TY - BOOK AU - Lundin, Roger TI - There before us: religion, literature, and culture from Emerson to Wendell Berry SN - 9780802829634 (pbk. : alk. paper) AV - PS166 .T47 2007 U1 - 810.9382 22 PY - 2007/// CY - Grand Rapids, Mich. PB - William B. Eerdmans Pub. KW - Religion in literature KW - American literature KW - 19th century KW - History and criticism KW - 20th century KW - Religion and literature KW - United States KW - History N1 - Introduction / Roger Lundin -- Signing off : religious indifference in America / Barbara Packer -- "Rare and delectable places" : Thoreau's imagination of sacred space at Walden / John Gatta -- Charity and its discontents : pity and politics in Melville's fiction / Michael Colacurcio -- Nimble believing : Dickinson and the conflict of interpretations / Roger Lundin -- Private interpretations : the defense of slavery, nineteenth-century hermeneutics, and the poetry of Fances E.W. Harper / Katherine Clay Bassard -- Mark Twain's Lincoln as "man of the border" : religion, free thinking, and the Civil War / Harold K. Bush, Jr -- The liberal saint : American liberalism and the problem of character / M.D. Walhout -- A homemade heaven : modernist poetry and the social gospel / Gail McDonald -- Religion and the environmental imagination in American literature / Lawrence Buell UR - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0613/2006013770.html ER -