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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... hand in hand . Nor is it extraordinary that he should make this attempt . A critical reading of the Declaration of Independence will show that it appeals not to a Christian deity but to the " Laws of Nature and of Nature's God . " It ...
... hand in hand . Nor is it extraordinary that he should make this attempt . A critical reading of the Declaration of Independence will show that it appeals not to a Christian deity but to the " Laws of Nature and of Nature's God . " It ...
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... hands , and this commonly implied that the vastness , purity , and sublimity of the unspoiled landscape or , at most ... hand . Formal literary description of American landscape was a rela- tively late development . What seems to me the ...
... hands , and this commonly implied that the vastness , purity , and sublimity of the unspoiled landscape or , at most ... hand . Formal literary description of American landscape was a rela- tively late development . What seems to me the ...
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... hand his European novels show no great amount of hostility to that church . Finally is to be noted a cer- tain inconsistency between Cooper's Christianity and his belief in a Hamiltonian form of the state one resting upon government by ...
... hand his European novels show no great amount of hostility to that church . Finally is to be noted a cer- tain inconsistency between Cooper's Christianity and his belief in a Hamiltonian form of the state one resting upon government by ...
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Tom Paine and Republican Religion | 1 |
Irving Bryant Cooper | 24 |
Transcendentalism and Emerson | 48 |
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