Lonesome: The Spiritual Meanings of American Solitude. By Kevin Lewis
In Lonesome: The Spiritual Meanings of American Solitude, Kevin Lewis locates within the shift from lonely to lonesome, a symptomatic, subjective condition that characterizes American spirituality. This concept is, he argues, a ‘repeated grace note’ (p. xix) that indicates how ‘Americans have negoti...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2010
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Literature and theology
Year: 2010, Volume: 24, Issue: 4, Pages: 443-445 |
| Review of: | Lonesome (London : I.B. Tauris, 2009) (Heit, Jamey)
Lonesome (London : I B Tauris, 2009) (Heit, Jamey) |
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| Summary: | In Lonesome: The Spiritual Meanings of American Solitude, Kevin Lewis locates within the shift from lonely to lonesome, a symptomatic, subjective condition that characterizes American spirituality. This concept is, he argues, a ‘repeated grace note’ (p. xix) that indicates how ‘Americans have negotiated their privatized, non-traditional religiousness.’ (p. xix). Though the term suggests (and occasionally states outright) a dislocated psyche, Lewis understands the term to capture an introspective streak within America’s identity that constitutes a crucial element of the optimism that through its reflection on the particularly American self and experience extends towards a numinous ‘Other’ (p. 175). |
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| ISSN: | 1477-4623 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Literature and theology
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/litthe/frq042 |