Invisible Conversations: Religion in the Literature of America - Hardcover

by Roger Lundin (Editor)

American literature offers exceptional resources for understanding the complex role religion has played in the life of the culture and in the experience of its people. In recent decades, however, the academic study of that literature has largely treated religion, in the words of a noted scholar, as an "invisible domain." In joining the rich conversations that have enlivened American culture for centuries, Invisible Conversations seeks to bring to light the vital role that religion has played in the literature of the United States.

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Provides a variety of perspectives on the role of religion in American literature and literary cricism.

Author Biography

Roger Lundin (1948-2015) was Arthur F. Holmes Professor of Faith and Learning, 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).