Emily Dickinson's Approving God: Divine Design and the Problem of Suffering

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University of Missouri Press, 2008 - Literary Criticism - 256 pages
"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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Contents

A Poem and Its Theological Scientific and Political Contexts
1
Part I
23
Part II
105
MultiPerspectivism in Interpretation
205
Derek Mahons A Disused Shed in Co Wexford
215
Bibliography
225
Index of First Lines
237
General Index
241
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