Melville's Wisdom - Schlarb, Damien B
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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

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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.
Autorenporträt
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).