Sinners and Saints: Literature and the Moral Imagination

Literature's engagements with profound moral and psychological issues: the struggle over belief, problems of evil, conformity and moral choice, natural justice and the law, and modes of authority shaping individual identity. Selected writings and genres from colonial to 20th-century: Bunyan, the seduction novel, Hawthorne, Edith Wharton, Twain, James Baldwin, and Emily Dickinson.