Retoriche antifondamentaliste in "The Damnation of Theron Ware" e "Elmer Gantry"
Abstract
Retoriche antifondamentaliste in The Damnation of Theron Ware e Elmer Gantry
Questo saggio presenta una lettura intertestuale di due romanzi classici sulle origini del fondamentalismo evangelico americano, The Damnation of Theron Ware di Harold Frederic (1896) e Elmer Gantry (1927) di Sinclair Lewis. Il saggio trae spunto da alcuni studi sull’influenza di Frederic su Lewis (Schorer 1961, Bennet 1997 e in particolare Genthe 1964) per rileggere entrambi i romanzi alla luce di recenti contributi sui rapporti tra protestantesimo e anti-cattolicesimo in America (Mislin 2011) e per identificare nuove connessioni tra di essi.
Anti-fundamentalist Rhetorics in The Damnation of Theron Ware and Elmer Gantry
This essay offers an intertextual reading of two classic novels about the origins of American fundamentalist evangelicalism in Harold Frederic’s The Damnation of Theron Ware (1896) and Sinclair Lewis’s Elmer Gantry (1927). Drawing from studies on Lewis’s debt to Frederic (Schorer 1961, Bennet 1997 and in particular Genthe 1964), the essay reads the two novels relying on recent historical interpretations of US protestantism and anti-catholicism (Mislin 2011) in order to unveil new connections between these works.
DOI: 10.1400/269054
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