Nature's nation.

By: Miller, Perry, 1905-1963Material type: TextTextReference number:ocm06571892Publication details: Cambridge, Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1967. Description: xvi, 298 p. 24 cmSubject(s): United States -- Intellectual life | United States -- Religion | Philosophy, AmericanDDC classification: 917.3/03 LOC classification: E169.1 | .M635
Contents:
The shaping of the American character.--Declension in a Bible commonwealth.--"Preparation for salvation" in seventeenth-century New England.--The Great Awakening from 1740 to 1750.--From the covenant to the revival.--The insecurity of nature.--Theodore Parker: apostasy within liberalism.--The location of American religious freedom.--Emersonian genius and the American democracy.--Thoreau in the context of international romanticism.--Melville and transcendentalism.--The romantic dilemma in American nationalism and the concept of nature.--An American language.--The romance and the novel.--Sinners in the hands of a benevolent God.
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The shaping of the American character.--Declension in a Bible commonwealth.--"Preparation for salvation" in seventeenth-century New England.--The Great Awakening from 1740 to 1750.--From the covenant to the revival.--The insecurity of nature.--Theodore Parker: apostasy within liberalism.--The location of American religious freedom.--Emersonian genius and the American democracy.--Thoreau in the context of international romanticism.--Melville and transcendentalism.--The romantic dilemma in American nationalism and the concept of nature.--An American language.--The romance and the novel.--Sinners in the hands of a benevolent God.

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