In Melville's Wisdom: Religion, Skepticism, Literature in Nineteenth-Century America, Damien B. Schlarb explores the manner in which Herman Melville responds to the spiritual crisis of modernity by using the language of the biblical Old Testament wisdom books to moderate contemporary discourses on religion, skepticism, and literature. Schlarb argues that attending to Melville's engagement with the wisdom books (Job, Proverbs, and Ecclesiastes) can help us understand a paradox at the heart of American modernity: the simultaneous displacement and affirmation of biblical language and religious culture.…mehr
In Melville's Wisdom: Religion, Skepticism, Literature in Nineteenth-Century America, Damien B. Schlarb explores the manner in which Herman Melville responds to the spiritual crisis of modernity by using the language of the biblical Old Testament wisdom books to moderate contemporary discourses on religion, skepticism, and literature. Schlarb argues that attending to Melville's engagement with the wisdom books (Job, Proverbs, and Ecclesiastes) can help us understand a paradox at the heart of American modernity: the simultaneous displacement and affirmation of biblical language and religious culture.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Damien B. Schlarb is Assistant Professor of American Studies at Johannes Gutenberg-University in Mainz, Germany, where he teaches courses in American literature and culture. His research focuses on American romantic literature and culture, the history of the Bible, and, most recently, Digital Games Studies. He has performed editorial work for South Atlantic Review, the journal of the South Atlantic Modern Language Association (SAMLA), and served as Managing Editor of Amerikastudien/American Studies, the journal of the German Associates of American Studies (GAAS).
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* Introduction * Chapter 1 Divine Justice and Sublime Suffering: The Book of Job * A. The Hoary Deep: Multi-perspectival Inquiry in Mardi * B. The Book of Many Jobs: The Literary Representations in Moby-Dick * C. What Job Taught the Lawyer: Moral Didacticism in "Bartleby; the Scrivener" * D. A Potsherd World: Suffering as Topography in The Encantadas * E. Job Critically Regarded: Materialism and Skepticism in The Confidence-Man * F. What to Do with Job * Chapter 2 Dread, Foolishness, Wisdom: The Book of Proverbs * A. Revolutionary Proverbs: Politics and Jurisprudence in Mardi * B. Fear God and the Rod: Religious Rhetoric of Scientism in "The Lightning-Rod Man" * C. The Avatar of Folly: The Battle against Wisdom in Modernity in The Confidence-Man * D. The Problem of Evil: The Reptilian Moderner in Billy Budd; Sailor * E. Melville and Wisdom Aphorisms * Chapter 3 Moderation, Self-Reflection, and Evil: The Book of Ecclesiastes * A. Wisdom as a Guidebook: Truth-Seeking as Way-Finding in Redburn * B. Wisdom as Corrective: Introspection in Moby-Dick * C. Seeking Too Intensely: The Problem of Radical Inquiry in Pierre * D. The Politics of Moderation: The Civil War as Religious Crisis in Battle-Pieces * E. Reflection and Critique in Wisdom * Conclusion: Melville's Wisdom
* Introduction * Chapter 1 Divine Justice and Sublime Suffering: The Book of Job * A. The Hoary Deep: Multi-perspectival Inquiry in Mardi * B. The Book of Many Jobs: The Literary Representations in Moby-Dick * C. What Job Taught the Lawyer: Moral Didacticism in "Bartleby; the Scrivener" * D. A Potsherd World: Suffering as Topography in The Encantadas * E. Job Critically Regarded: Materialism and Skepticism in The Confidence-Man * F. What to Do with Job * Chapter 2 Dread, Foolishness, Wisdom: The Book of Proverbs * A. Revolutionary Proverbs: Politics and Jurisprudence in Mardi * B. Fear God and the Rod: Religious Rhetoric of Scientism in "The Lightning-Rod Man" * C. The Avatar of Folly: The Battle against Wisdom in Modernity in The Confidence-Man * D. The Problem of Evil: The Reptilian Moderner in Billy Budd; Sailor * E. Melville and Wisdom Aphorisms * Chapter 3 Moderation, Self-Reflection, and Evil: The Book of Ecclesiastes * A. Wisdom as a Guidebook: Truth-Seeking as Way-Finding in Redburn * B. Wisdom as Corrective: Introspection in Moby-Dick * C. Seeking Too Intensely: The Problem of Radical Inquiry in Pierre * D. The Politics of Moderation: The Civil War as Religious Crisis in Battle-Pieces * E. Reflection and Critique in Wisdom * Conclusion: Melville's Wisdom
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