Book contents
- The Cambridge Companion to the Literature of the American Renaissance
- The Cambridge Companion to the Literature of the American Renaissance
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Chronology
- Introduction: The Very Idea of an American Renaissance
- Part I Into the Renaissance
- Part II Rethinking the Renaissance
- 6 Sins of the Rising Generation: Religion and the American Renaissance
- 7 Uncle Tom’s Cabin and the Struggle Over Meaning: From Slavery to Race
- 8 The (Im)Possibilities of Indianness: George Copway and the Problem of Representativity
- 9 The Poetess at Work
- 10 Fern, Warner, and the Work of Sentimentality
- 11 Melville: The Ocean and the City
- Part III Beyond the Renaissance
- Further Reading
- Index
- Cambridge Companions to…
6 - Sins of the Rising Generation: Religion and the American Renaissance
from Part II - Rethinking the Renaissance
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 02 March 2018
Book contents
- The Cambridge Companion to the Literature of the American Renaissance
- The Cambridge Companion to the Literature of the American Renaissance
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Chronology
- Introduction: The Very Idea of an American Renaissance
- Part I Into the Renaissance
- Part II Rethinking the Renaissance
- 6 Sins of the Rising Generation: Religion and the American Renaissance
- 7 Uncle Tom’s Cabin and the Struggle Over Meaning: From Slavery to Race
- 8 The (Im)Possibilities of Indianness: George Copway and the Problem of Representativity
- 9 The Poetess at Work
- 10 Fern, Warner, and the Work of Sentimentality
- 11 Melville: The Ocean and the City
- Part III Beyond the Renaissance
- Further Reading
- Index
- Cambridge Companions to…
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