Knowing, Seeing, Being: Jonathan Edwards, Emily Dickinson, Marianne Moore, and the American Typological Tradition

by Jennifer L. Leader

Book Overview

Scholars no longer see Jonathan Edwards as the fire-and-brimstone preacher who deemed his parishioners "sinners in the hands of an angry god." Edwards now figures as caring and socially conscious and exerts increased influence as a philosopher of the American school of Protestantism. In this study, he becomes the progenitor of an alternative tradition in American letters.

In Knowing, Seeing, Being, Jennifer L. Leader argues that...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1625341806
• ISBN13: 9781625341808
• Release Date: February 2016
• Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"