"In love with the Image": transitive being and typological desire in Jonathan Edwards.(Critical essay)

From: Early American Literature | Date: March 22, 2006| Author: Leader, Jennifer L. | Copyright information

Perhaps there is not one leaf of a tree, nor spire of grass, but what has effects all over the universe, and will have to the end of eternity. --Jonathan Edwards, 1721

I find letters from God dropped in the street, and every one is signed by God's name, And I leave them where they are, for I know that others will punctually come forever and ever.--Walt Whitman, 1855

It seems a long time now since someone has reminded us that the Jonathan Edwards of the vast, m...

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