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The religious milieu of the storefront church and its congregation is described in the most intimate detail. ... Yet all the implications are that John will finally have to leave religion to engage the world, just as he must leave the ...
The religious milieu of the storefront church and its congregation is described in the most intimate detail. ... Yet all the implications are that John will finally have to leave religion to engage the world, just as he must leave the ...
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Clearly the tale points to the dangers of religious enthusiasm and superstition. With the Puritan spirit still strong in the land and the signs of another religious revival already evident, the rationalist Brown was warning his readers ...
Clearly the tale points to the dangers of religious enthusiasm and superstition. With the Puritan spirit still strong in the land and the signs of another religious revival already evident, the rationalist Brown was warning his readers ...
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Were she not indifferent to religion, Constantia could simply present her religious convictions as an impenetrable wall to Ormond's intellectual attacks on her reasoning. But for all of Sophia's declarations of the necessity of ...
Were she not indifferent to religion, Constantia could simply present her religious convictions as an impenetrable wall to Ormond's intellectual attacks on her reasoning. But for all of Sophia's declarations of the necessity of ...
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User Review - Not Available - Book VerdictThis supplement, the latest addition to the well-known "American Writers'' series, includes 29 authors. All except Frederick Douglass, the 19th-century orator and writer, are 20th-century poets ... Read full review
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| Title | American writers: a collection of literary biographies. Jane Addams to Sidney Lanier |
| Editor | Leonard Unger |
| Publisher | Charles Scribner's sons, 1979 |
| ISBN | 0684157977, 9780684157979 |
| Length | 373 pages |
| Subjects | › › Literary Criticism / American / General |
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