TY - BOOK AU - Kazin,Alfred TI - God & the American writer SN - 0394549686 AV - PS166 .K39 1997 U1 - 810.9/382 21 PY - 1997/// CY - New York PB - Alfred A. Knopf KW - American literature KW - History and criticism KW - Christianity and literature KW - United States KW - Religion and literature KW - Puritan movements in literature KW - Theology in literature KW - God in literature KW - Littérature américaine KW - Histoire et critique KW - Christianisme et littérature KW - États-Unis KW - Puritanisme dans la littérature KW - Religion et littérature KW - Théologie dans la littérature KW - Dieu dans la littérature KW - Amerikaans KW - gtt KW - Schrijvers KW - Christendom N1 - Includes index; Hawthorne and his Puritans --; Emerson and the moral sentiment: we are as gods --; Christians and their slaves (Harriet Beecher Stowe and others) --; Melville in the Holy Land --; Walt Whitman: I am the man --; Lincoln: the Almighty has his own purposes --; Emily Dickinson: the alone to the alone --; William James: rescuing religion --; Mark Twain: the American funnyman who put God on trial --; T.S. Eliot: the pilgrim from St. Louis --; Robert Frost: the survival of the fittest --; Faulkner: God over the South; Also issued online N2 - A series of essays on major American poets, novelists, and statesmen exploring "what the meaning of God has been for American writers, and how those writers...have expressed it."--Jacket UR - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/bios/random057/97002993.html UR - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/description/random041/97002993.html UR - http://www.archive.org/details/godamericanwrite00kazi UR - http://www.openlibrary.org/books/OL657821M ER -