Browsing by Author "Clark, Miriam Marty"

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Toward a More Perfect Engine: Natural Science and Optimism in the American Renaissance

Lisle, Benjamin (2011-05-04)

This dissertation examines the discourse regarding the perfectibility of American society among four figures associated with the American Renaissance: Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, Margaret Fuller, and Nathaniel ...

Vital Grace: Bodies and Belief in American Fiction

Bowman, Taylor Douglas (2019-04-29)

This dissertation challenges a persistent association of religious thought with an emphasis on transcendence that denies the importance of bodies. The authors whose work I explore—Flannery O’Connor, John Updike, Andre ...