Wilderness Lost: The Religious Origins of the American MindThis book establishes that there is a consistent tradition of wilderness imagery in American literature, A psychological reading of theology is applied to the writings of such authors as Thomas Hooker, Jonathan Edwards, Thoreau, Hawthorne, Melville, and Dickinson. |
Contents
Introduction | 9 |
The Wilderness | 23 |
Canaan and the Wilderness | 46 |
Copyright | |
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Wilderness Lost: The Religious Origins of the American Mind David Ross Williams Limited preview - 1987 |
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