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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... Cooper's Christianity has unexpected blindnesses and unex- pected tolerations . He had little use for New England or for dis- senters , and he equated the two . Though The Wept of Wish- ton - Wish ( 1829 ) , a historical tale of ...
... Cooper's Christianity has unexpected blindnesses and unex- pected tolerations . He had little use for New England or for dis- senters , and he equated the two . Though The Wept of Wish- ton - Wish ( 1829 ) , a historical tale of ...
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... Cooper's fiction , there is a parallel current equally important — a belief in natural theism . This is evident in the books by Cooper that everybody knows best - the Leather- stocking tales . Everyone remembers the impressions left on ...
... Cooper's fiction , there is a parallel current equally important — a belief in natural theism . This is evident in the books by Cooper that everybody knows best - the Leather- stocking tales . Everyone remembers the impressions left on ...
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... Cooper comes very close to arguing like Walter Savage Landor that we are what sun and wind and water make us . In The Pathfinder , for example , the virtually natural religion of Natty Bumppo is superior to the Christianity of the towns ...
... Cooper comes very close to arguing like Walter Savage Landor that we are what sun and wind and water make us . In The Pathfinder , for example , the virtually natural religion of Natty Bumppo is superior to the Christianity of the towns ...
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Tom Paine and Republican Religion | 1 |
Irving Bryant Cooper | 24 |
Transcendentalism and Emerson | 48 |
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