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.
Emily Dickinson's approving God.
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Dickinson, Emily,1830-1886-- Criticism and interpretation.
Dickinson, Emily,1830-1886-- Religion.
Dickinson, Emily,1830-1886.
Belief and doubt in literature.
Literature and science-- United States-- History-- 19th century.
Religion and literature-- United States-- History-- 19th century.