The Economy of Religion in American Literature: Culture and the Politics of Redemption

ISBN-13: 9781350231672 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 272 str.

BALL ANDREW

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Introduction: A New Theory of the Sacred Chapter 1 The Boiled-Over District: Effervescence and Adaptation During the Market Revolution Chapter 2 The Salvific Power of Affect: Sentimentalism in the Labor Fiction of Rebecca Harding Davis and Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Chapter 3 The American Fetish: Religious Economics in the Novels of William Dean Howells Chapter 4 Mistaking “Shadows for Gods”: Class and the Christ Novel in the Progressive Era Chapter 5 “Christianity Incorporated”: Sinclair Lewis and the Taylorization of American Protestantism Chapter 6 Gastonia Revisited: Religion, Literature, and the Loray Mill Strike of 1929 Chapter 7 “The blackness of God”: Race and Religion in the Literature of the Harlem Renaissance List of Figures Acknowledgements