Title The wisdom of words : language, theology, and literature in the New England renaissance / Philip F. Gura.

Publication Info.	Middletown, Conn. : Wesleyan University Press ; Irvington, NY : distributed by Columbia University Press, [1981]
	©1981

Item Status

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Edition	1st ed.
Description	x, 203 pages ; 24 cm
Bibliography	Bibliography: pages 191-194.
Note	Includes index.
Contents	ch. 1. Word of God, within reason: Unitarian scriptural exegesis -- ch. 2. Transcendental logic: from James marsh to Horace Bushnell -- ch. 3. Example of Emerson: from theology to literature -- ch. 4. Farther afield: Henry Thoreau's philological explorations -- ch. 5. Ambiguity and its fruits: Toward Hawthorne and Melville.
Subject	American prose literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
	American prose literature.
Chronological Term	19th century
Subject	Language and languages -- Religious aspects -- History.
	Language and languages -- Religious aspects.
	History.
	Symbolism in literature.
	Symbolism in literature.
	Theology -- History -- 19th century.
	Theology.
	New England -- Intellectual life.
	New England.
	Intellectual life.
	Letterkunde.
	Theologie.
	Amerikaans.
Other Form:	Online version: Gura, Philip F., 1950- Wisdom of words. 1st ed. Middletown, Conn. : Wesleyan University Press ; Irvington, NY : distributed by Columbia University Press, c1981 (OCoLC)607887584
ISBN	0819550531
	9780819550538