INTRODUCTION

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. FOREWORD v
3. CONTENTS vii
4. INTRODUCTION ix
5. THE SHAPING OF THE AMERICAN CHARACTER 1
6. DECLENSION IN A BIBLE COMMONWEALTH 14
7. “PREPARATION FOR SALVATION” IN SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY NEW ENGLAND 50
8. THE GREAT AWAKENING FROM 1740 TO 1750 78
9. FROM THE COVENANT TO THE REVIVAL 90
10. THE INSECURITY OF NATURE 121
11. THEODORE PARKER: APOSTASY WITHIN LIBERALISM 134
12. THE LOCATION OF AMERICAN RELIGIOUS FREEDOM 150
13. EMERSONIAN GENIUS AND THE AMERICAN DEMOCRACY 163
14. THOREAU IN THE CONTEXT OF INTERNATIONAL ROMANTICISM 175
15. MELVILLE AND TRANSCENDENTALISM 184
16. THE ROMANTIC DILEMMA IN AMERICAN NATIONALISM AND THE CONCEPT OF NATURE 197
17. AN AMERICAN LANGUAGE 208
18. THE ROMANCE AND THE NOVEL 241
19. SINNERS IN THE HANDS OF A BENEVOLENT GOD 279
20. INDEX 291