There Before Us

Despite the crucial importance of religion in american life, the place of religion in literary studies continues to take a backseat to trendier academic causes. there before us helps remedy this deficiency by exploring the place of faith in the lives of several major american writers. in developing their arguments, the essayists draw upon a wide array of contemporary theoretical resources-From african american poetics to environmental criticism, from the hermeneutics of suspicion to the new historicism .