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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... animal called man , although he heartily loved John , Peter , Thomas , and so forth . We may begin with some characteristic expressions of the darker view of man by Twain . The heir of all the ages in the foremost files of time seemed ...
... animal called man , although he heartily loved John , Peter , Thomas , and so forth . We may begin with some characteristic expressions of the darker view of man by Twain . The heir of all the ages in the foremost files of time seemed ...
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... animal , male or female , should be more than a young animal . What is forever at stake in serious literature is the nature of humanity itself , that glory , jest , and riddle of the world . No slightest trace of theology , I think ...
... animal , male or female , should be more than a young animal . What is forever at stake in serious literature is the nature of humanity itself , that glory , jest , and riddle of the world . No slightest trace of theology , I think ...
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... animal nature . Late nineteenth - century realism was satisfied , or thought it was , to trace the operations of scien- tific law , usually biological , on the human animal ; modern writers find this too naïve and struggle to ...
... animal nature . Late nineteenth - century realism was satisfied , or thought it was , to trace the operations of scien- tific law , usually biological , on the human animal ; modern writers find this too naïve and struggle to ...
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Tom Paine and Republican Religion | 1 |
Irving Bryant Cooper | 24 |
Transcendentalism and Emerson | 48 |
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