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Making Nature Sacred: Literature, Religion, and Environment in America from the Puritans to the Present

Book by John Gatta; Oxford University Press, 2004

Subjects:

American Literature--History And Criticism, Ecology In Literature, Environmental Protection In Literature, Holy, The, In Literature, Natural History--United States, Nature In Literature, Nature--Religious Aspects, Religion And Literature--United States, Religion In Literature

Collections: Religious Studies, Literature, Entire Library

...History. 23 Thus, despite the Puritans general fear and suspicion...consecrated church edifices. The Puritans did not, of course, regard...European tradition. When Puritan emigrants first reached Boston...and New England that suffuse Puritan literature help to clarify this movement...
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Thornton Wilder and the Puritan Narrative Tradition

Book by Lincoln Konkle; University of Missouri Press, 2006

Subjects:

Christianity And Literature--United States, English Language--United States--Rhetoric, Influence (Literary, Artistic, Etc.), Narration (Rhetoric)--History--20th Century, Puritan Movements In Literature, Puritans--New England--Intellectual Life, Taylor, Edward--1642-1729--Influence, Wilder, Thornton--1897-1975--Criticism And Interpretation, Wilder, Thornton--1897-1975--Religion, Wilder, Thornton--1897-1975--Technique

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...the er- rand or mission the Puritan immigrants enacted was not...built did not survive as the Puritan utopia their leaders, at...of signs that attest to the Puritans commitment to the errand and...societal level. Vestiges of Puritan beliefs, lifestyles, institutions...approaches to the study of literature has helped scholars make an...
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Maps of Heaven, Maps of Hell: Religious Terror as Memory from the Puritans to Stephen King

Book by Edward J. Ingebretsen; M. E. Sharpe, 1996

Subjects:

American Fiction--English Influences, Christianity And Literature, Fiction--Religious Aspects--Christianity, Gothic Revival (Literature)--United States, Heaven In Literature, Hell In Literature, Horror Tales, American--History And Criticism, Memory In Literature, Puritan Movements In Literature

Collections: Religious Studies, Literature, Entire Library

...world" Miller, The American Puritans, op. cit., p. 98 . Wards...found in Miller, The American Puritans, op. cit ., pp. 95-108...Saints: The History of a Puritan Idea New York: Cornell University...Sewalls Diary and the Margins of Puritan Literature," American Literature...
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The American Puritans: Their Prose and Poetry

Book by Perry Miller; Doubleday, 1956

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American Literature--Colonial Period, Ca. 1600-1775, American Literature--Puritan Authors, Poetry, Puritans--United States--Literary Collections

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...the manuscripts of Edward Taylor by Thomas H. Johnson in 1937 completely upset the estab lished perspective on Puritan literature: here was a hitherto unknown poet of great distinction who by now has taken an assured place in criticism , who...
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The American Puritan Elegy: A Literary and Cultural Study

Book by Jeffrey A. Hammond; Cambridge University Press, 2000

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American Poetry--Colonial Period, Ca. 1600-1775--History And Criticism, American Poetry--New England--History And Criticism, American Poetry--Puritan Authors--History And Criticism, Christianity And Literature--New England--History, Death In Literature, Elegiac Poetry, American--History And Criticism, Grief In Literature, Literature And Anthropology--New England--History, Puritans--New England--Intellectual Life

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...Bradstreets Prophetic Art. In Puritan Poets and Poetics: Seventeenth...Deserto : Latin Verse of the Puritans. In Puritan Poets and Poetics: Seventeenth...Forthcoming in Early American Literature . Sacks, Peter M. The English...1928. Salska, Agnieszka. Puritan Poetry: Its Public and Private...

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Journal Articles on: puritan literature

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Exteriority in Milton and Puritan Life Writing

Journal article by Linda Tredennick; Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900, Vol. 51, 2011

Subjects:

English literature--Criticism and interpretation, Milton, John (English poet)--Criticism and interpretation, Milton, John (English poet)--Works, Poets--Criticism and interpretation, Poets--Works, Puritan movements--Portrayals, Puritanism--Portrayals

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...that is so typical of Puritan autobiographies. And, like Puritans offering up their external...shown is typical of Puritan diaries. For Puritans, Todd argues, "the...Tennenhouse, The Imaginary Puritan: Literature, Intellectual Labor...
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Almost a Golden World: Sidney, Spenser, and Puritan Conflict in Bradstreet's "Contemplations"

Journal article by Lee Oser; Renascence: Essays on Values in Literature, Vol. 52, 2000

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American poetry--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Bradstreet, Anne--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Puritans in literature--Influence, Regionalism in literature--Analysis, Sidney, Philip--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Spenser, Edmund--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Women poets--Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...E. R. European Literature and the Latin Middle...Saintly Self: The Puritan Experience of Poetry...Delbanco, eds. The Puritans in America. Cambridge...Miller, eds. The Puritans. 1938. New York...Lewis, C. S. English Literature in the Sixteenth Century...Contemplations." Studies in Puritan American Spirituality...
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Godly Letters: The Literature of the American Puritans

Journal article by Michael G. Ditmore; Christianity and Literature, Vol. 58, 2008

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Books--Book reviews, Godly Letters: The Literature of the American Puritans (Nonfiction work)--Book reviews

Collections: Religious Studies, Literature, Entire Library

Godly Letters: The Literature of the American Puritans. by Michael G. Ditmore...Literature of the American Puritans. By Michael J. Colacurcio...literature of the American Puritans," still an untenable oxymoron...books of New Englands first Puritan generation" (227). I...
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A Puritan Subject's Panegyrics to Queen Anne

Journal article by Barbara Olive; Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900, Vol. 42, 2002

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Anne, Queen of Great Britain and Ireland--Portrayals, depictions, etc., Chudleigh, Mary--Criticism, interpretation, etc., English literature, 1700-1775 (Early 18th century)--Political aspects, English poetry--Women authors, Laudatory poetry--18th century, Politics in literature--18th century, Puritans--Authorship

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...political allegiances of those from Puritan background born into the Restoration...times inconsistent, and most former Puritans, particularly from among the gentry...zealots. (11) Devon, a marked Puritan county during the seventeenth century...equally strong roots of hostility toward Puritans among Devonshire Royalists. (12...convergence that would bring many of Puritan background to the feet of a Stuart...Although it may appear that former Puritans would have little in common with a...
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Making Nature Sacred: Literature, Religion, and Environment in America from the Puritans to the Present

Journal article by John Knott; Christianity and Literature, Vol. 55, 2005

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Books--Book reviews, Making Nature Sacred: Literature, Religion, and Environment in America from the Puritans to the Present (Book)--Book reviews

Collections: Religious Studies, Literature, Entire Library

Making Nature Sacred: Literature, Religion, and Environment in America from the Puritans to the Present. by John Knott...Environment in America from the Puritans to the Present. By John Gatta...a "numinous nature" from Puritan accounts of New England through...gardener. Gattas treatment of Puritan readings of the New England...

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Magazine Articles on: puritan literature

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Transgressing the Bounds: Subversive Enterprises among the Puritan Elite in Massachusetts, 1630-1692

Magazine article by George Mckenna; First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and Public Life, November 2001

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Books--Reviews, Transgressing the Bounds: Subversive Enterprises Among the Puritan Elite in Massachusetts, 1630-1692 (Book)--Reviews

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

...under increasing criticism. Literature professor Janice Knight went...toleration. There was the Puritan evangelist Daniel Gookin...one degree or another, the Puritan ideal of a "cohesive godly...find justification. NO PURITAN WOULD dispute any of this...Arbella, the flagship of the Puritans fleet in 1630, the soon...
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Cromwell's 'Gay Attire': Puritan Souls May Hide a Cavalier Approach to Clothes, According to Patrick Little as He Explores Fashion at the Court of Oliver Cromwell

Magazine article by Patrick Little; History Today, Vol. 58, September 2008

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Cromwell, Oliver--Clothing, Cromwell, Oliver--Social aspects, Fashion--Social aspects, Puritans--Clothing

Collections: History, Entire Library

...Roundhead, the quintessential Puritan, Oliver Cromwell. The traditional image of the Puritan is so pervasive that it comes...is it possible to see a "Puritan" or even a "Republican...art, architecture, music, literature and horse-breeding, it...mind, should our view of the Puritans and their sombre garments...
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America: Fundamentally Religious: Our Puritan Spirit Is Still with Us but in Different Forms

Magazine article by Gary Glenn, John Stack; World and I, Vol. 14, December 1999

Subjects:

Democracy--Religious aspects, Freedom of religion--Social aspects, Puritans--Influence, United States history--Religious aspects

Collections: Religious Studies, History, Entire Library

...Fundamentally Religious: Our Puritan Spirit Is Still with Us but...opportunity to study the Bible as literature, comparative religions, and...that the opinions of the "Puritan founders of the American republics...powerful influence of this Puritan spirit in the late nineteenth...
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The Greatest Puritan: A New Biography of Jonathan Edwards

Magazine article by Lloyd Eby; World and I, Vol. 19, June 2004

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Books--Book reviews, Jonathan Edwards: A Life (Book)--Book reviews

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...are fully converted, the Puritans and Edwards had great zeal...soon did the same. These Puritan revivals became linked to...Satan--Edwards and the Puritans definitely believed in the...It arose from what the Puritans would have regarded as the...larger history of Christian literature," writes Marsden. Edwards...
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Don't Read Politics into American Literature

Magazine article by Peter Shaw; Insight on the News, Vol. 10, May 23, 1994

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Literature--Study and teaching, Moby Dick (Book)--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Politics and literature--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Recovering American Literature (Book)--Authorship

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...Prynne, the 17th-century Puritan heroine of that book. In...those who politicize our literature is their neglect of these...teachers politicize American literature is not to deny that literatures frequent political concerns...forgotten how imaginative literature works. Or else that person...

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Newspaper Articles on: puritan literature

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Genius among Puritans

Newspaper article; The Washington Times, May 16, 2004

Subjects:

Mencken, H.L.

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

Genius among Puritans. Byline: John C. "Chuck...Americans were invariably Puritans at heart. Proving that point...politics, religion, morals, literature, race relations, ideas...is to say formerly anti-Puritan San Franciscans, masquerading as born-again Puritans by demanding to be married...
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Literature's Death, Greatly Exaggerated

Newspaper article by Colin Walters; The Washington Times, November 23, 1997

Subjects:

Johnson, Samuel

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

Literatures death, greatly exaggerated...book, "After the Death of Literature," I also had just read...the exemplar of a view of literature as contributing to our larger...especially in a "still-Puritan America") enjoy it. The...this process of moving from Literature to Writing, a substitution...
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Will Obama Soar or Bore on Sunday? King Dedication Needs a 'Dream' of a Speech

Newspaper article; The Washington Times (Washington, DC), October 14, 2011

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Bible and literature--Political aspects, Bible as literature--Political aspects, Biblical literature--Political aspects, I Have a Dream (Speech)--Political aspects

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...more power and resonance. Similarly, Reagans reference to a shining city on a hill borrowed from Kennedy, who borrowed from Puritan leader John Winthrop, who in turn borrowed from the Sermon on the Mount. In contrast, Mr. Carroll said, contemporary listeners...
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Which Feat Came First?

Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), August 18, 2010

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...not by a clerical class, in the early 18th century they caused fear and suspicion. Much anti-Quaker and anti-Puritan literature and songs appeared at the time, usually alluding to their sexual promiscuity. There are many variations of the...
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Which Feat Came First? ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS

Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), August 18, 2010

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...by an inner voice, not by a clerical class, Quakers caused fear and suspicion. Much anti-Quaker and anti-Puritan literature and songs appeared at the time, usually alluding to their sexual promiscuity. There are many variations of the...

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Encyclopedia Articles on: puritan literature

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American Literature

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

AMERICAN LITERATURE literature in English produced...first work published in the Puritan colonies was the Bay Psalm...Americana (1702). Even Puritan poetry was offered uniformly...piety. The best of the Puritan poets, Edward Taylor...
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English Literature

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

ENGLISH LITERATURE literature written in English since c.1450 by the inhabitants of the British...the English language acquired much of its modern form. For the literature of previous linguistic periods, see the articles on Anglo-Saxon...
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Children's Literature

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

CHILDRENS LITERATURE writing whose primary audience...Beginnings of Childrens Literature The earliest of what came to be regarded as childrens literature was first meant for adults...for the edification of Puritan boys and girls. Out of...
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Canadian Literature, English

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

CANADIAN LITERATURE, ENGLISH literary works...as an imitative colonial literature, it has steadily developed...immigrations, first of New England Puritans from 1760 on and later of...the Revolution, Canadian literature followed U.S. models almost...developing. In the 18th cent. Puritan hymnists, such as Henry...
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Censorship

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...press, the theater, dance, art, literature, photography, the cinema, radio...Acts ), suppression of abolitionist literature in the antebellum South, and local...Comstock , on what was reckoned obscene literature, and the U.S. Post Office expanded...

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