The Economy of Religion in American Literature
Bloomsbury Academic (Verlag)
978-1-350-23170-2 (ISBN)
Arguing that the “spirit of capitalism” was not fostered by traditional Puritanism, Ball explores the ways that Christianity was transformed by the market and industrial revolutions. This book refutes the long-held secularization thesis by showing that modernity was a time when new forms of the sacred proliferated, and that this religious flourishing was essential to the production of American culture.
Ball draws from the work of Émile Durkheim and cultural sociology to interpret modern social upheavals like religious awakenings, revivalism, and the labor movement. Examining work from writers like Rebecca Harding Davis, Jack London, and Countee Cullen, he shows how concepts of salvation fundamentally intersect with matters of race, gender, and class, and proposes a theory that explains the enchantment of modern American society.
Andrew Ball is Editorial Assistant for the journal Communications in Mathematical Physics, based at Harvard University, USA.
Introduction: A New Theory of the Sacred
Chapter 1
The Boiled-Over District: Effervescence and Adaptation During the Market Revolution
Chapter 2
The Salvific Power of Affect: Sentimentalism in the Labor Fiction of Rebecca Harding Davis and Elizabeth Stuart Phelps
Chapter 3
The American Fetish: Religious Economics in the Novels of William Dean Howells
Chapter 4
Mistaking “Shadows for Gods”: Class and the Christ Novel in the Progressive Era
Chapter 5
“Christianity Incorporated”: Sinclair Lewis and the Taylorization of American Protestantism
Chapter 6
Gastonia Revisited: Religion, Literature, and the Loray Mill Strike of 1929
Chapter 7
“The blackness of God”: Race and Religion in the Literature of the Harlem Renaissance
List of Figures
Acknowledgements
| Erscheinungsdatum | 10.11.2023 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | New Directions in Religion and Literature |
| Verlagsort | London |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 156 x 234 mm |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturgeschichte | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-350-23170-3 / 1350231703 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-350-23170-2 / 9781350231702 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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