American Literature And The New Puritan Studies
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Author | : Bryce Traister |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 255 |
Release | : 2017-09-07 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1107101883 |
This book reconsiders the role of seventeenth-century Puritanism in the creation of the United States and its consequent cultural and literary histories.
Author | : Bryce Traister |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 255 |
Release | : 2017-09-07 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1108509010 |
This book contains thirteen original essays about Puritan culture in colonial New England. Prompted by the growing interest in secular studies, as well as postnational, transnational, and postcolonial critique in the humanities, American Literature and the New Puritan Studies seeks to represent and advance contemporary interest in a field long recognized, however problematically, as foundational to the study of American literature. It invites readers of American literature and culture to reconsider the role of seventeenth-century Puritanism in the creation of the United States of America and its consequent cultural and literary histories. It also records the significant transformation in the field of Puritan studies that has taken place in the last quarter century. In addition to re-reading well known texts of seventeenth-century Puritan New England, the volume contains essays focused on unknown or lesser studied events and texts, as well as new scholarship on post-Puritan archives, monuments, and historiography.
Author | : Kristina Bross |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 668 |
Release | : 2020-10-15 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1108879713 |
For generations, scholars have imagined American puritans as religious enthusiasts, fleeing persecution, finding refuge in Massachusetts, and founding 'America'. The puritans have been read as a product of New England and the origin of American exceptionalism. This History challenges the usual understanding of American puritans, offering new ways of reading their history and their literary culture. Together, an international team of authors make clear that puritan America cannot be thought of apart from Native America, and that its literature is also grounded in Britain, Europe, North America, the Caribbean, and networks that spanned the globe. Each chapter focuses on a single place, method, idea, or context to read familiar texts anew and to introduce forgotten or neglected voices and writings. A History of American Puritan Literature is a collaborative effort to create not a singular literary history, but a series of interlocked new histories of American puritan literature.
Author | : Richard Ruland |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 438 |
Release | : 2016-04-14 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1317234146 |
Widely acknowledged as a contemporary classic that has introduced thousands of readers to American literature, From Puritanism to Postmodernism: A History of American Literature brilliantly charts the fascinating story of American literature from the Puritan legacy to the advent of postmodernism. From realism and romanticism to modernism and postmodernism it examines and reflects on the work of a rich panoply of writers, including Poe, Melville, Fitzgerald, Pound, Wallace Stevens, Gwendolyn Brooks and Thomas Pynchon. Characterised throughout by a vibrant and engaging style it is a superb introduction to American literature, placing it thoughtfully in its rich social, ideological and historical context. A tour de force of both literary and historical writing, this Routledge Classics edition includes a new preface by co-author Richard Ruland, a new foreword by Linda Wagner-Martin and a fascinating interview with Richard Ruland, in which he reflects on the nature of American fiction and his collaboration with Malclolm Bradbury. It is published here for the first time.
Author | : Sacvan Bercovitch |
Publisher | : Yale University Press |
Total Pages | : 264 |
Release | : 1975-01-01 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9780300021172 |
Errata slip inserted. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Author | : Kenneth Ballard Murdock |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 522 |
Release | : 1925 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Bryce Traister |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 303 |
Release | : 2021-11-25 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1108889387 |
This Companion covers American literary history from European colonization to the early republic. It provides a succinct introduction to the major themes and concepts in the field of early American literature, including new world migration, indigenous encounters, religious and secular histories, and the emergence of American literary genres. This book guides readers through important conceptual and theoretical issues, while also grounding these issues in close readings of key literary texts from early America.
Author | : Convention of American Instructors of the Deaf |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 374 |
Release | : 1960 |
Genre | : Deaf |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Cotton Mather |
Publisher | : American Antiquarian Society |
Total Pages | : 440 |
Release | : 1972 |
Genre | : Medicine |
ISBN | : |
This book contains Cotton Mather's writings on medicine, who saw illness in a spiritual context and provided a combination of scientific and spiritual treatments for diseases.
Author | : Michael J. Colacurcio |
Publisher | : University of Notre Dame Pess |
Total Pages | : 672 |
Release | : 2006-08-15 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0268159238 |
In Godly Letters, Michael J. Colacurcio analyzes a treasury of works written by the first generation of seventeenth-century American Puritans. Arguing that insufficient scrutiny has been given this important oeuvre, he calls for a reevaluation of the imaginative and creative qualities of America's early literature of inspired ecclesiological experiment, one that focuses on the quality of the works as well as the demanding theology they express. Colacurcio gives a detailed, richly contextualized account of the meaning of these "godly letters" in rhetorical, theological, and political terms. From his close readings of the major texts by the first generation of Puritans-including William Bradford, Thomas Hooker, Edward Johnson, John Winthrop, Thomas Shepard, and John Cotton-he expertly illuminates qualities other studies have often overlooked. In his words, close study of the literature yields work "comprehensive, circumspect, determined subtle, energetic, relentlessly intellectual, playful in spite of their cultural prohibitions, in spite of themselves, even, they are in every way remarkable products of a culture that . . . assigned an extraordinarily high place to the life of words." Magisterial in sweep, Godly Letters is likely to stand as the definitive work on the Puritan literary achievement.