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1.

The American Puritans: Their Prose and Poetry » Read Now
by Perry Miller. 346 pgs.

Collections: Literature, Entire Library
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Puritanism in Early America ("The Puritan Literary Attitude" begins on p. 89) » Read Now
by George M. Waller. 115 pgs.

Collections: Religious Studies, History, Entire Library

...who have decried the Puritan contribution to literature, the next selection...provincial note in our literature to the Puritans. No student of the history...professorships...
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America Begins: Early American Writing » Read Now
by Richard M. Dorson. 438 pgs.

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...relations and accounts "literature." I would, on the...the making. The Puritans and the Jesuits...genres of polite literature. Theology spawned...Wigglesworths manual for...
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Puritan Poetics: The World, the Flesh, and God, in Early American Literature » Read Now
by Robert Daly. 27 pgs.

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...the American Puritans. All three, to judge from their literature, were aware...without Ramus, Puritan writing would...the same," Literature and Theology...Early American...
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The New England Mind: The Seventeenth Century » Read Now
by Perry Miller. 528 pgs.

Collections: Religious Studies, History, Entire Library

...index. 1. Puritans -- New England...Christian literature, American...the whole literature as though...passage from one Puritan writing which...The Rise of Puritanism ...
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A History of American Literature, 1607-1765 » Read Now
by Moses Coit Tyler. 556 pgs.

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...pettiness of the New England Puritans0-Examples0-Its literary peculiarities...118 VI. The literature of the Pequot War-- John Mason...position in early American literature...
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The Face of God: Puritan Iconography in Early American Poetry, Sermons, and Tombstone Carving, in Early American Literature » Read Now
by Lynn Haims. 33 pgs.

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...images of Christ and God in Puritan literature calls for a fuller explanation...need for drama shaped their literature: . . . the Puritans found means to satisfy...
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Providence Tales and the Indian Captivity Narrative: Some Transatlantic Influences on Colonial Puritan Discourse, in Early American Literature » Read Now
by James D. Hartman. 16 pgs.

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...Leonard Tennenhouse. The Imaginary Puritan: Literature, Intellectual Labor, and the Origins of...of Lions: Notes on Stylization in Early Puritan Captivity Narratives"...
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Anne Hutchinson, Sectarian Mysticism, and the Puritan Order, in Church History » Read Now
by Marilyn J. Westerkamp. 15 pgs.

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

...18 Erikson, Wayward Puritans , pp. 33-107. 19 In...Problem of Dissent in the Literature of New England (Berkeley...revelation. 32 Most literature on English Protestant...
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Handkerchiefs from Paul: Being Pious and Consolatory Verses of Puritan Massachusetts » Read Now
by Benjamin Tompson, John Wilson, Anna Hayden, Samuel Torrey, Samuel Danforth, Kenneth B. Murdock. 214 pgs.

Collections: Literature, Entire Library
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Authorizing Experience: Refigurations of the Body Politic in Seventeenth-Century New England Writing » Read Now
by Jim Egan. 179 pgs.

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

The emphasis on practical experience over ideology is viewed by many historians as a profoundly American characteristic, one that provides a model for exploring the colonial challenge to European belief systems and the creation of a unique culture. Here Jim Egan offers an unprecedented look at how...
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The emphasis on practical experience over ideology is viewed by many historians as a profoundly American characteristic, one that provides a model for exploring the colonial challenge to European belief systems and the creation of a unique culture. Here Jim Egan offers an unprecedented look at how early modern American writers helped make this notion of experience so powerful that we now take it as a given rather than as the product of hard-fought rhetorical battles waged over ways of imagining one's relationship to a larger social community. In order to show how our modern notion of experience emerges from a historical change that experience itself could not have brought about, he turns to works by seventeenth-century writers in New England and reveals the ways in which they authorized experience, ultimately producing a rhetoric distinctive to the colonies and supportive of colonialism.Writers such as John Smith, William Wood, John Winthrop, Anne Bradstreet, Benjamin Tompson, and William Hubbard were sensitive to the challenge experiential authority posed to established social hierarchies. Egan argues that they used experience to authorize a supplementary status system that would at once enhance England's economic, political, and spiritual status and provide a new basis for regulating English and native populations. These writers were assuaging fears over how exposure to alien environments threatened actual English bodies and also the imaginary body that authorized English monarchy and allowed English subjects to think of themselves as a nation. By reimagining the English nation, these supporters of English colonialism helped create a modern way of imagining national identity and individual subject formation.
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Puritan Rhetoric: The Issue of Emotion in Religion » Read Now
by Eugene E. White. 235 pgs.

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library
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The Constitutional Documents of the Puritan Revolution 1625-1660 » Read Now
by Samuel Rawson Gardiner. 540 pgs.

Collections: Religious Studies, History, Entire Library
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The American Puritan Elegy: A Literary and Cultural Study » Read Now
by Jeffrey A. Hammond. 264 pgs.

Collections: Religious Studies, Literature, Entire Library

Jeffrey Hammond's study of the funeral elegies of early New England reassesses a body of poems whose importance in their own time has been obscured by almost total neglect in ours. Hammond reconstructs the historical, theological and cultural contexts of these poems to demonstrate how they responded...
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Jeffrey Hammond's study of the funeral elegies of early New England reassesses a body of poems whose importance in their own time has been obscured by almost total neglect in ours. Hammond reconstructs the historical, theological and cultural contexts of these poems to demonstrate how they responded to Puritan views on a specific process of mourning. The elegies emerge, he argues, as performative scripts that consoled readers by shaping their experience. They shed new light on the emotional dimension of Puritanism and the important role of ritual in Puritan culture.
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