Belief and Disbelief in American LiteratureTom Paine and republican religion -- Landscape as religion: Irving, Bryant, Cooper -- Transcendentalism and Emerson -- The cosmic optimism of Walt Whitman -- The pessimism of Mark Twain -- The cosmic loneliness of Robert Frost. |
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... fiction , is curiously un - Christian ; when Middleton offers to see to it that the dying trapper has a Christian headstone , the old man at first refuses , and then says : Put no boastful words on the same , but just the name , the age ...
... fiction , is curiously un - Christian ; when Middleton offers to see to it that the dying trapper has a Christian headstone , the old man at first refuses , and then says : Put no boastful words on the same , but just the name , the age ...
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... fiction has sometimes taken the problem of belief and disbelief for one of its themes . Two examples are Mrs. Stowe's The Minister's Wooing and Harold Frederic's The Damnation of Theron Ware . In these books the insufficiency of ...
... fiction has sometimes taken the problem of belief and disbelief for one of its themes . Two examples are Mrs. Stowe's The Minister's Wooing and Harold Frederic's The Damnation of Theron Ware . In these books the insufficiency of ...
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... fiction re- tains most of the characteristics of the Christian deity as a dramatis persona except benevolence toward man , but whose essence Twain never clearly defines . God is , however , the ground of being of the universe , which ...
... fiction re- tains most of the characteristics of the Christian deity as a dramatis persona except benevolence toward man , but whose essence Twain never clearly defines . God is , however , the ground of being of the universe , which ...
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Tom Paine and Republican Religion | 1 |
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Transcendentalism and Emerson | 48 |
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