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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... beginning universally accepted a Christian God , a providential ordering of events , the immortality of the soul , and the doctrines of individual salvation or damna- tion . In 1789 , however , there was a general drift of opinion among ...
... beginning universally accepted a Christian God , a providential ordering of events , the immortality of the soul , and the doctrines of individual salvation or damna- tion . In 1789 , however , there was a general drift of opinion among ...
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... beginning in 1833 , his vast Histoire de France , a work he felt himself competent to write , not because he had the training of a specialist but because , the child of the people , he understood instinctively that the French people ...
... beginning in 1833 , his vast Histoire de France , a work he felt himself competent to write , not because he had the training of a specialist but because , the child of the people , he understood instinctively that the French people ...
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... Brooks knew nothing about either Missouri or the West and that Twain was from the beginning a conscious Western literary artist . I suppose a third rearrangement is implicit in the subtitle of De Lancey Fergu- 95 THE PESSIMISM OF MARK ...
... Brooks knew nothing about either Missouri or the West and that Twain was from the beginning a conscious Western literary artist . I suppose a third rearrangement is implicit in the subtitle of De Lancey Fergu- 95 THE PESSIMISM OF MARK ...
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Tom Paine and Republican Religion | 1 |
Irving Bryant Cooper | 24 |
Transcendentalism and Emerson | 48 |
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