Bibliograph

Dismissing God, modern writers' struggle against religion, D. Bruce Lockerbie

Type

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Dismissing God, modern writers' struggle against religion, D. Bruce Lockerbie

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Dismissing God

Nature of contents

bibliography

Responsibility statement

D. Bruce Lockerbie

Sub title

modern writers' struggle against religion

Summary

In The Past Two Centuries many leading writers have held their quarrel with God. In Dismissing God. D. Bruce Lockerbie explores the picture of this quarrel by examining the lives, beliefs, and works of more than twenty European and American writers. Authors covered range from Dickinson and Emerson to Hardy, Lawrence, Yeats, and Hemingway

Table Of Contents

The ebb tide of faith : Matthew Arnold -- The abdication of belief : Emily Dickinson -- The self as American messiah : Walt Whitman and Ralph Waldo Emerson -- Uncomfortable unbelief : Nathaniel Hawthorne and Herman Melville -- "Nature's abominable injustice and indifference" : Stephen Crane -- Halley's comet and the mysterious stranger / Samuel Langhorne Clemens and Mark Twain -- Eluding the hound of heaven : the English neo-pagans -- "A dyed and figured mystery" : Thomas Hardy and William Butler Yeats -- "... A heretic and immoral too" : James Joyce and D.H. Lawrence -- The lost generation : F. Scott Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway -- "Our nada who art in nada" : the nihilists -- "When disbelief has gone" : after the Holocaust

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