{"product_id":"9780814274064","title":"Clashing Convictions: Science and Religion in American Fiction","description":"\u003ci\u003eClashing Convictions: Science and Religion in American Fiction\u003c\/i\u003e is the first study to identify a body of twentieth-century American fiction that represents the increasing tensions experienced by people of Christian faith in response to Darwinism, the higher biblical criticism, and modern medicine. Delineating how these works dramatize clashes between scientific and conservative Protestant understandings of the world, Albert H. Tricomi examines a canon of ten novels and one iconic play that present a cultural history of inner turmoil as well as social conflict.  The three parts of the study chart this increasing inner turmoil, a rising secularist ideology, and finally a fundamentalist revival among alienated biblical literalists.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e With chapters on James Lane Allen’s \u003ci\u003eThe Reign of Law,\u003c\/i\u003e Harold Frederic’s \u003ci\u003eThe Damnation of Theron Ware,\u003c\/i\u003e William Dean Howells’s \u003ci\u003eThe Leatherwood God\u003c\/i\u003e, Sinclair Lewis’s \u003ci\u003eArrowsmith\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eElmer Gantry\u003c\/i\u003e, Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee’s \u003ci\u003eInherit the Wind\u003c\/i\u003e, and James Scott Bell’s \u003ci\u003eThe Darwin Conspiracy,\u003c\/i\u003e Tricomi offers new readings emphasizing how this canon represents science and religion as in deep, if not irreconcilable, conflict. Tricomi’s sweeping study, with its emphasis on the twentieth century, thus reveals from several directions the processes of secularism even as it identifies the emergence of what some have come to describe as the current “postsecular” moment in America.","brand":"Ohio State University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47123903152368,"sku":"9780814274064","price":35.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780814274064_p0.jpg?v=1763747171","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780814274064","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}