Invisible Conversations

Roger Lundin (Ph.D., University of Connecticut) is Blanchard Professor of English, Wheaton College. He is the author of a number of books, including: There Before Us: Religion, Literature, and Culture From Emerson to Wendell Berry , Editor (2007), From Nature to Experience: The American Search for Cultural Authority (2005), and Emily Dickinson and the Art of Belief , 2nd ed. (2004).

• Introduction by Roger Lundin Part 1 Religion and American Fiction1. Finding a Prose for God: Religion and American FictionDenis Donoghue2. American Literature and/as Spiritual InquiryLawrence BuellPart 2 Religion and American Poetry3. Variety as Religious Experience: The Poetics of the Plain StyleElisa New4. Keeping the Metaphors Alive: American Poetry and TransformationBarbara PackerPart 3 Literature, Religion, and the African American Experience5. Genres of Redemption: African Americans, the Bible, and Slavery from Lemuel Haynes to Frederick DouglassMark A. Noll6. Balm in Gilead: Memory, Mourning, and Healing in African American AutobiographyAlbert J. Raboteau7. The Race for Faith: Justice, Mercy, and the Sign of the Cross in African American LiteratureKatherine Clay Bassard8. Forms of RedemptionJohn StaufferPart 4 Literature, Religion, and American Public Life9. Hamlet without the Prince: The Role of Religion in Postwar NonfictionAlan Wolfe10. ""The Only Permanent State"": Belief and the Culture of IncredulityAndrew DelbancoPart 5 Theology and American Literature11. How the Church Became Invisible: A Christian Reading of American Literary TraditionStanley Hauerwas and Ralph C. Wood12. ""The Play of the Lord"": On the Limits of CritiqueRoger LundinNotes Index

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