After Eden: The Secularization of American Space in the Fiction of Willa Cather and Theodore DreiserBucknell University Press, 1990 - 160 Seiten The transformation of the American sense of religious identity and destiny that occurred toward the end of the nineteenth century and the beginning of the twentieth is illustrated through a literary and cultural analysis of the fiction of Willa Cather and Theodore Dreiser. |
Inhalt
Acknowledgements | 9 |
Willa Cathers Alien | 36 |
Natural and Social | 75 |
Urheberrecht | |
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