After Eden: The Secularization of American Space in the Fiction of Willa Cather and Theodore DreiserThe transformation of the American sense of religious identity and destiny that occurred toward the end of the nineteenth century and the beginning of the twentieth is illustrated through a literary and cultural analysis of the fiction of Willa Cather and Theodore Dreiser. |
Contents
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Living on the Edge of a World Willa Cathers Alien Frontiers and the Antagonism of Place | 36 |
The Exorcism of the Supernatural Natural and Social Alienation for Theodore Dreiser | 75 |
A New American Dream Dislocation as Reminiscent of a Century Past and Reorientation as Prophetic of the Modern World | 111 |
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After Eden: The Secularization of American Space in the Fiction of Willa ... Conrad Eugene Ostwalt No preview available - 1990 |
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Alexandra Alfred Kazin alienation ambiguous Ameri American dream American space American Tragedy Ántonia appears approach Bulwark Cather and Dreiser Cather and Theodore Cather's characters Cather's fiction Clyde Clyde Griffiths Cowperwood cultural Daiches Darwin Darwinian world describes deterministic dislocation divine dominate dream of possibility Dreiser's fiction Dreiser's Novels early twentieth centuries Emerson existence experience fittest frontier Granville Hicks harmony hostile human relationships Ibid isolation Jennie Gerhardt Kazin land literary live meaning meaningful moral narrative natural and social natural environment natural realm natural space natural world naturalistic nineteenth century occurs philosophy physical pietistic pietistic naturalism pioneers prairie Professor's House Protestantism realistic reality reappropriation redefines redefinition of American religion and literature religious result romantic poets Rosicky sacred natural sacred world Schneider secular setting Sister Carrie social space social world society Solon Spencerian story struggle supernatural survival theme Theodore Dreiser ther's tion traditional transcendent transcendentalist University Press vision Willa Cather worldview York