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Visionary of the word : Melville and religion / edited by Jonathan A. Cook and Brian Yothers.

Other author/creatorCook, Jonathan A. (Jonathan Alexander), 1953- editor.
Other author/creatorYothers, Brian, 1975- editor.
Format Book and Print
Publication Info Evanston, Illinois : Northwestern University Press, 2017.
Copyright Notice ©2017
Descriptionvii, 296 pages ; 24 cm
Subject(s)
Melville, Herman, 1819-1891--Criticism and interpretation.
Melville, Herman, 1819-1891--Religion.
Religion in literature.
Contents Introduction / Jonathan A. Cook and Brian Yothers -- Clarel and the Victorian crisis of faith / Jonathan A. Cook -- "Change irreverent" : evolution and faith in "The Encantadas" and Clarel / Eileen McGinnis -- Faith among the weeds : Melville's religious wildings beyond these deserts / Martin Kevorkian -- Melville and the Unitarian conscience / Dawn Coleman -- Melville and the Mormons / Zachary McLeod Hutchins -- Melville's Asia, Melville's missionaries / Brian Yothers -- Melville among the heathens : religion, race, and representation in the South Seas / Richard A. Garner -- Coleridge, Edwards, and the peculiar progress of Melville's free will problem / Brad Bannon -- "The apocalypse of pain" : suffering, theodicy, and religious identity in Moby-Dick / Haein Park.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
Genre/formCriticism, interpretation, etc.
LCCN 2016031992
ISBN9780810134256 paperback alkaline paper
ISBN081013425X paperback alkaline paper
ISBN9780810134263 hardcover alkaline paper
ISBN0810134268 hardcover alkaline paper
ISBNelectronic book
ISBNelectronic book

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