After Eden: The Secularization of American Space in the Fiction of Willa Cather and Theodore Dreiser

By Conrad Ostwalt

The transformation of the American sense of religious identity and destiny that occurred toward the end of the nineteenth century and the beginning of the twentieth is illustrated through a literary and cultural analysis of the fiction of Willa Cather and Theodore Dreiser.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1611480620
• ISBN13: 9781611480627
• Release Date: July 1990
• Publisher: Bucknell University Press
• Length: 165 Pages