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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... published in Philadelphia , January 10 , 1776 ; The American Crisis , a series of essays , thirteen numbered consecu- tively ( with obvious reference to the thirteen original states ) , and three extra numbers , published in this ...
... published in Philadelphia , January 10 , 1776 ; The American Crisis , a series of essays , thirteen numbered consecu- tively ( with obvious reference to the thirteen original states ) , and three extra numbers , published in this ...
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... published in five volumes as Theology Explained and Defended . In the back country travel- ing evangelists called men to repentance ; and the rigors of Jona- than Edwards ' theology were revived and extended by the Rev. Samuel Hopkins ...
... published in five volumes as Theology Explained and Defended . In the back country travel- ing evangelists called men to repentance ; and the rigors of Jona- than Edwards ' theology were revived and extended by the Rev. Samuel Hopkins ...
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... published at the end of his essay on " Illusion " in The Conduct of Life of 1860 , he stated a principle of the immediacy of the individual soul to the divine order of the universe , and from this principle , once he had earlier ...
... published at the end of his essay on " Illusion " in The Conduct of Life of 1860 , he stated a principle of the immediacy of the individual soul to the divine order of the universe , and from this principle , once he had earlier ...
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Tom Paine and Republican Religion | 1 |
Irving Bryant Cooper | 24 |
Transcendentalism and Emerson | 48 |
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