The Turn Around Religion in America: Literature, Culture, and the Work of Sacvan Bercovitch

Drawing on historian Bercovitch's understanding of the universals and particulars of religion, scholars of American literature explore expression of religion in it. Among their topics are cosmopolitanism and Zoroastrianism in Moby-Dick, bad fathering in Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, the Halachic Judaism of Emerson and Thoreau, playing God with beauty from Hawthorne to Hairspray, and Nathanael West and Sacvan Becovitch. Annotation 穢2012 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)