Book Description
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
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 27,60 MB
Release : 2017-09-07
Category : 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
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 31,81 MB
Release : 2017-09-07
Category : 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
Page : 375 pages
File Size : 18,6 MB
Release : 2020-10-31
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781108840033
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
Page : 438 pages
File Size : 32,53 MB
Release : 2016-04-14
Category : 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
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 42,2 MB
Release : 1975-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780300021172
Errata slip inserted. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Author : Kenneth Ballard Murdock
Publisher :
Page : 522 pages
File Size : 10,11 MB
Release : 1925
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN :
Author : Kristina Bross
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 668 pages
File Size : 21,16 MB
Release : 2020-10-15
Category : 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 : Bryce Traister
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 20,89 MB
Release : 2021-11-25
Category : 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 : Cotton Mather
Publisher : American Antiquarian Society
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 32,49 MB
Release : 1972
Category : 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 : Convention of American Instructors of the Deaf
Publisher :
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 33,48 MB
Release : 1960
Category : Deaf
ISBN :
List of members in 15th-