Author : Joel Daehnke
Publisher : Ohio University Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : American literature
ISBN : 9780821415023
In the Work of Their Hands is Their Prayer by Joel Daehnke Pdf
"Enlisting works by Mark Twain and Willa Cather, as well as noncanonical sources, such as private journals, Daehnke examines the manner in which the imagery of the human figure at work and play in the frontier landscape participated in the nationalist, "civilizing" project of westward expansion. While acknowledging the growing secularization of American life, Daehnke surveys the continuing claims of the Christian redemptive scheme as a powerful symbolic domain for these writers' reflections on social progress and the potential for human perfectibility in the landscapes of the West."--Jacket.