Research Catalog

Title

Uncivil rites : American fiction, religion, and the public sphere / Robert Detweiler.

Author

Detweiler, Robert.

Publication

Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [1996], ©1996.

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Details

Additional Authors

IUPUI (Campus). Center for the Study of Religion and American Culture.

Description

x, 250 pages; 24 cm.

Series Statement

Public expressions of religion in America

Uniform Title

Public expressions of religion in America.

Subject

• American fiction > 20th century > History and criticism
• Religious fiction, American > History and criticism
• Fiction > Religious aspects
• Religion in literature
• United States > Religion > 20th century

Note

• "Published in cooperation with the Center for the Study of Religion and American Culture, Indiana University-Purdue University at Indianapolis."

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Introduction: Fictions of Public Realms -- 1. Communism: The Public Enemy -- 2. The Crucible: The Theocratic Town and Public Evil -- 3. The Book of Daniel: The Fatally Exposed Family -- 4. The Public Burning: Carnival, Circus, and Public Execution -- 5. Erotic Bodies as Sites of Faith -- 6. Sisterhood and Sex: Agnes of God, Mariette in Ecstasy, and The Company of Women -- 7. Possessing bodies: Quicksand and Beloved -- 8. Subjected Wife: Many Things Have Happened since He Died -- 9. Dancing to the Apocalypse -- 10. Apocalypse Now: Melancholia at the End -- 11. Indian Country: Disorder and Late Sorrow -- 12. Tracks: Trickster Hermeneutics -- Conclusion: The Body Poetic? -- App. 1. Ron Hansen Responds -- App. 2. Elizabeth Dewberry Responds -- App. 3. Philip Caputo Responds -- App. 4. "The Ghost Dance at Wounded Knee," / Dick Fool Bull.

ISBN

• 0252019326 (acid-free paper)
• 0252065808 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

95041735

OCLC

ocm33206631

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries