Invisible Conversations: Religion in the Literature of America

Index

219 = Index Abrams, M. H., 23 Adams, Henry, 35–36, 40 Adams, John, 43 Addison, Joseph, 28 African American literature: autobiography and African American experience, 86–96; the cross and the body of Christ in represent works of poetry and fiction, 108–19; and the intersection of race, belief, and literary theory, 101–4; memory and racial identity, 84–86; role of Christianity in abolitionist movement , 69–82; and the secularization of theological categories, 106–8; slavery, abolitionism, and religion, 69–82, 86–90; theme of redemption, 121–30; use of Bible in, 69–82 Ahlstrom, Sydney, 44 Allen, Richard, 80, 122 Aristotle, 93 Arnold, Matthew, 24 Auden, W. H., 193 Augustine, St., 56, 155, 160, 169–70 Baker, Mark, 105, 113 Bakhtin, Mikhail, 3 Baldwin, James, 94–97, 126, 128 Balzac, Honoré de, 93 Barth, John, 44 Barth, Karl, 44, 188, 213n21 Beals, Melba Pattillo, 97 Bearden, Romare, 106 Beecher, Lyman, 141 Bell, Daniel, 142, 149 Bellah, Robert, 36, 153 Bellow, Saul, 1, 134, 152 Benjamin, Walter, 4 Benson, Bruce Ellis, 102–3 Bentham, Jeremy, 3 Bercovitch, Sacvan, 153 Berends, Kurt, 210n1 Berry, Wendell, 214n27 Blackmur, R. P., 32–34, 36, 40 Blake, William, 29, 169 Bloom, Harold, 36–37 Bonhoeffer, Dietrich, 176, 193–94 Booth, Wayne, 175 Bozeman, Theodore, 199n3, 201n8 Brooks, Cleanth, 30 Browne, Sir Thomas, 32 Bruno, Giordano, 20 Burke, Kenneth, 3–4, 20–21, 23 Burton, Robert, 32 Cage, John, 20 Calasso, Roberto, 30–31 Calvin, John, 32, 169 Cameron, Sharon, 201n15 Camus, Albert, 134 Canetti, Elias, 30 Carpenter, Joel, 165 Cartwright, Samuel, 125 220 Index Cather, Willa, 177–86, 187, 191–92, 210n1 Cavanaugh, William, 162–63, 188, 212n11 Cheng, Anne, 85, 126 Chesterton, G. K., 159–60 Christian, Barbara, 101–3 Clarkson, Thomas, 72 Coker, Daniel, 80–82, 122 Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 22, 24–25, 40, 43 Cone, James, 105–6, 112 Constantinianism, 42–43, 161, 187–90 Cotton, John, 201n12; metaphor and grace, 50–51, 56, 58–59, 201n15; the plain style, 60–62, 199n3, 200n7, 201n13 Coughlin, Charles, 152 Countess of Huntingdon, 86 Crane, Stephen, 53, 59–60 Crossman, Richard, 152 Crummell, Alexander, 125 Cugoano, Quobna Ottobah, 73 Cullen, Countee, 107, 112 Darrow, Clarence, 214n22 Darwin, Charles, 189 Davis, David Brion, 70, 121 DeLay, Thomas, 153–54 Delbanco, Andrew, 51, 190, 200n5 DeMott, Benjamin, 140 Denney, Reuel, 135, 150 Derrida, Jacques, 19, 102–3, 154 Descartes, René, 212n11 Dickinson, Emily, 43, 60, 62, 159, 193, 201n8; on meaning and the internal differences of language, 52–55; metaphor and the dynamic of likeness and unlikeness, 49–50; opponent of cultural Christianity, 166–68, 187; poetic kitsch, 59; poetry in an age of unbelief, 32–34, 189–90; poetry and the possibility of revelation, 63–64, 201n15; romantic idealism, 177 Dickstein, Morris, 134 Dinesen, Isak, 192 Douglas, Kelly Brown, 106 Douglass, Frederick, 107, 113, 122, 193, 208n26; autobiography and the African American experience, 88–90, 126–28; employs biblical arguments against slavery, 73, 79–80, 125–26; resurrection typology, 109–10, 128–30 Dreiser, Theodore, 36 DuBois, W. E. B., 90–94, 126 Dubus, Andre, 25–27, 37, 41–43 Dulles, John Foster, 133 Dumas, Alexander, 93 Durkheim, Emile, 30, 138, 143 Duvall, Robert, 154 Dylan, Bob, 135 Eagleton, Terry, 101, 119 Edwards, Jonathan, 1, 34, 39, 51, 60, 62; on the dynamics of beauty and grace, 54–59; virtue and the struggle against slavery, 76–77 Eisenhower, Dwight David, 133, 135, 153, 214n28 Eliot, T. S., 20 Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 25, 50, 159, 193, 200n7, 201n12; central influence of contested, 36–37, 40–41, 45, 198n2; the language of natural signs, 21–22; and the power of metaphor, 58, 63–65; romantic view of Christ and Christianity , 28, 31, 43; on the spiritual dynamics of poetry, 60–62; and the tragic view of experience, 33 Equiano, Olaudah, 72, 86–88, 126–27 Erikson, Erik, 136 Evers, Medgar, 172 Falwell, Jerry, 141 Faulkner, William, 30, 39, 159, 189, 191–92 Fern, Fanny, 39 Fielding, Henry, 136, 143–44 Fish, Stanley, 154–55 Fiske, John, 200n7 Fitzgerald, F. Scott, 35–36, 216n59 Fletcher, Angus, 41 Forten, James, 123 Fosdick, Harry Emerson, 151 Franchot, Jenny, 2 Franklin, Benjamin, 39, 43 Index 221 Freud, Sigmund, 138, 149, 155 Friedan, Betty, 137–38, 143, 149 Fromm, Erich, 135–36 Frost, Robert, 36, 58, 60, 62, 159, 188, 190 Frye, Northrop, 24, 36 Garnet, Henry Highland, 74–75, 122 Garrison, William Lloyd, 124...