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Series
Publisher
University of Nevada Press
Pub. Date
[1998]
Language
English
Description
How did an Illinois Methodist homesteader in the West come to create one of the most significant cosmological syntheses in American literature? In this study, Hoyer draws on his own knowledge of biblical religion and Native American cultures to explore Austin's creation of the "mythology of the American continent" she so valued. Austin lived in and wrote about "the land of little rain," semiarid and arid parts of California and Nevada that were home...
83) Dissenting histories: religious division and the politics of memory in eighteenth-century England
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Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
"John Bunyan was a major figure in seventeenth-century Puritan literature, and one deeply embroiled in the religious upheavals of his times. This Companion considers all his major texts, including The Pilgrim's Progress and his autobiography Grace Abounding. The essays, by leading Bunyan scholars, place these and his other works in the context of seventeenth-century history and literature. They discuss such key issues as the publication of dissenting...
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Publisher
WaterBrook, an imprint of the Crown Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
An extended, in-depth discussion of the Christian faith of one of America's most beloved pioneer women, Laura Ingalls Wilder, author of Little House series books. Includes photos and authentic recipes from the Little House era.
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Series
Cambridge studies in Anglo-Saxon England volume 32
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Pub. Date
2001
Language
English
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Publisher
HarperSanFrancisco
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
Traces the life of the twentieth-century Christian literary master, drawing on themes from the Narnia series to offer insight into Lewis's experiences, from his works as a medieval scholar to his role as a beloved children's book author.