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Butler, James Robert, III.

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God's Ragged Edges: Religion and Public Life in the Work of Herman Melville.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	God's Ragged Edges: Religion and Public Life in the Work of Herman Melville./
Author:	Butler, James Robert, III.
Published:	Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, : 2017,
Description:	94 p.
Notes:	Source: Masters Abstracts International, Volume: 56-04.
Contained By:	Masters Abstracts International56-04(E).
Subject:	American literature. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=10274081
ISBN:	9781369783797

God's Ragged Edges: Religion and Public Life in the Work of Herman Melville.
Butler, James Robert, III.

God's Ragged Edges: Religion and Public Life in the Work of Herman Melville. - Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2017 - 94 p.

Source: Masters Abstracts International, Volume: 56-04.

Thesis (M.A.)--Villanova University, 2017.

Despite his reputation as one of the foremost purveyors of nineteenth century religious skepticism, Herman Melville's work has a complex relationship with religion, particularly its role in public and political life. This project seeks to apply new scholarship on religion's role in public life (particularly Charles Taylor's 2007 work A Secular Age) to illustrate how Melville both recognizes the difficulty of belief in an increasingly secularized modern world while he also stresses its importance to maintaining democratic systems. I argue that Melville's novels---particularly Moby-Dick, The Confidence-Man , and Billy Budd---recognize religion and its role in public life as a fundamental fault line in modern American society. In particular, I examine how Melville demonstrates the necessity for democracy to accommodate religion while also recognizing the difficulty of belief.

ISBN: 9781369783797Subjects--Topical Terms:

523234
American literature.

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