Myth and Literature in the American RenaissanceThere are perhaps as many definitions of myth as of romanticism, but a renewed interest in myth as "authentic tidings of invisible things" is one of the most commonly remarked characteristics of early nineteenth-century literature. American writers from Emerson to Melville were very well read in myth and in mythic theory and were highly conscious of myth as a subject of special interest to the age. Richardson shows how our major writers consciously understood and used myth. - Jacket flap. |
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... religious context . His endorsement of science calls for a rejection of mythology : he says flatly science is the true religion , mythology the false . In the broad sense , Paine's influ- ential posing of the religious problem as the ...
... religious context . His endorsement of science calls for a rejection of mythology : he says flatly science is the true religion , mythology the false . In the broad sense , Paine's influ- ential posing of the religious problem as the ...
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... Religion . " 41 ad The description is apt , if we take it to suggest not the destruction ad but the democratizing and radical transformation of religious ideas . Transcendentalism revitalized Christianity by applying idealist thought to ...
... Religion . " 41 ad The description is apt , if we take it to suggest not the destruction ad but the democratizing and radical transformation of religious ideas . Transcendentalism revitalized Christianity by applying idealist thought to ...
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... Religious Ideas , Through Successive Ages . New York : C. S. Francis and Co. , 1855. Comparative myth and religion . Chivers , Thomas Holley . Virginalia ; or , Songs of my Summer Nights . Philadelphia : Lippincott , Grambo and Co ...
... Religious Ideas , Through Successive Ages . New York : C. S. Francis and Co. , 1855. Comparative myth and religion . Chivers , Thomas Holley . Virginalia ; or , Songs of my Summer Nights . Philadelphia : Lippincott , Grambo and Co ...
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