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Keane, Patrick J.

Emily Dickinson's approving God : divine design and the problem of suffering / Patrick J. Keane. - Columbia : University of Missouri Press, ©2008. - 1 online resource (xii, 256 pages)

Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-236) and indexes.

The poem and images of God -- Religion and science: Einstein's Spinozisti God -- God and evolution : the contemporary debate -- Design, challenged and defended -- Emily Dickinson on Christ and Crucifixion -- Destroyers and victims: "apparently with no surprise" and related scenarios -- Design and accident -- Frost, the blonde assassin -- Dickinson's death-haunted earthly paradise -- Flowers, and thoughts too deep for tears -- Questioning divine benevolence -- The final dialectic: believing and disbelieving.

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"Focusing on Emily Dickinson's poem "Apparently with no surprise," Keane explores the poet's embattled relationship with the deity of her Calvinist tradition, reflecting on literature and religion, faith and skepticism, theology and science in light of continuing confrontations between Darwinism and design, science and literal conceptions of a divine Creator"--Provided by publisher.


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2020.


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ISBN: 9780826266569 0826266568

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Subjects--Personal Names:
Dickinson, Emily, 1830-1886 --Criticism and interpretation.
Dickinson, Emily, 1830-1886 --Religion.
Dickinson, Emily, 1830-1886
Dickinson, Emily 1830-1886
Dickinson, Emily, 1830-1886 --analys och tolkning.
Dickinson, Emily.

Subjects--Chronological Terms:
1800-1899

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Theology in literature.
Belief and doubt in literature.
Religion and literature--History--United States--19th century.
Literature and science--History--United States--19th century.
Théologie dans la littérature.
Croyance et doute dans la littérature.
Religion et littérature--Histoire--États-Unis--19e siècle.
Littérature et sciences--Histoire--États-Unis--19e siècle.
LITERARY CRITICISM--Poetry.
Belief and doubt in literature
Literature and science
Religion
Religion and literature
Theology in literature
Gott
Lyrik
Teodicéproblemet i litteraturen.
Religion och litteratur--historia--Förenta staterna--1800-talet.
Litteratur och vetenskap--historia--Förenta staterna--1800-talet.

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
United States

Index Terms--Genre/Form:
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History

LC Class. No.: PS1541.Z5 / K36 2008eb

Dewey Class. No.: 811/.4