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OverviewExamining how economic change influences religion, and the way literature mediates that influence, this book provides a thorough reassessment of modern American culture. Focusing on the period 1840-1940, the author shows how the development of capitalism reshaped American Protestantism and addresses the necessary role of literature in that process. Arguing that the “spirit of capitalism” was not fostered by traditional Puritanism, Ball explores the ways that Christianity was transformed by the market and industrial revolutions. This book refutes the long-held secularization thesis by showing that modernity was a time when new forms of the sacred proliferated, and that this religious flourishing was essential to the production of American culture. Ball draws from the work of Émile Durkheim and cultural sociology to interpret modern social upheavals like religious awakenings, revivalism, and the labor movement. Examining work from writers like Rebecca Harding Davis, Jack London, and Countee Cullen, he shows how concepts of salvation fundamentally intersect with matters of race, gender, and class, and proposes a theory that explains the enchantment of modern American society. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Andrew Ball , Emma Mason (University of Warwick UK) , Mark KnightPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Imprint: Bloomsbury Academic Dimensions: Width: 15.60cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 23.40cm Weight: 0.454kg ISBN: 9781350231672ISBN 10: 1350231673 Pages: 272 Publication Date: 05 May 2022 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Manufactured on demand  We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier. Table of ContentsIntroduction: A New Theory of the Sacred Chapter 1 The Boiled-Over District: Effervescence and Adaptation During the Market Revolution Chapter 2 The Salvific Power of Affect: Sentimentalism in the Labor Fiction of Rebecca Harding Davis and Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Chapter 3 The American Fetish: Religious Economics in the Novels of William Dean Howells Chapter 4 Mistaking Shadows for Gods : Class and the Christ Novel in the Progressive Era Chapter 5 Christianity Incorporated : Sinclair Lewis and the Taylorization of American Protestantism Chapter 6 Gastonia Revisited: Religion, Literature, and the Loray Mill Strike of 1929 Chapter 7 The blackness of God : Race and Religion in the Literature of the Harlem Renaissance List of Figures AcknowledgementsReviewsAuthor InformationAndrew Ball is Editorial Assistant for the journal Communications in Mathematical Physics, based at Harvard University, USA. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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