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Melville's Wisdom

Melville's Wisdom

Religion, Skepticism, and Literature in Nineteenth-Century America

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In Melville's Wisdom: Religion, Skepticism, Literature in Nineteenth-Century America, Damien B. Schlarb explores the manner in which Herman Melville responds to the spiritual crisis of modernity by using the language of the biblical Old Testament wisdom books to moderate contemporary discourses on religion, skepticism, and literature. Schlarb argues that attending to Melville's engagement with the wisdom books (Job, Proverbs, and Ecclesiastes) can help us understand a paradox at the heart of American modernity: the simultaneous displacement and affirmation of biblical language and religious culture.

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octobre 2021, AAR Academy Series, Anglais
Oxford Academic
978-0-19-758556-6

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