Böcker av Giles Gunn

Offers a new critical history of the way seventeenth-century religion and the eighteenth-century Enlightenment influenced the formation of subsequent American writing. This shaping was dependent on their pragmatic refiguration less as systems of belief and thought than as frames of reflection and structures of feeling, what Giles Gunn calls spiritual imaginaries.

Essays previously published between 1987 and 2012.

Introduces students to the ways that the world has been woven into a system of interrelated, but far from completely integrated, processes, interactions, and transformations since long before the beginning of the Common Era. The readings reflect patterns of transmission, dispersion, and exchange that reveal how the world has operated.

In a unique and probing analysis, this study examines the function of literary criticism in religious studies and explores the relation of literature to religion in the works of major American writers.