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Books on: puritan writer

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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

...doctrine was to employ a vivid metaphor, the Puritan writer would do that; if expository writing was...Rowe, Saint and Singer. For studies of Puritan rhetoric and style, see Bercovitch, Puritan Origins and American jeremiad; Lowance...
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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

Collections: Religious Studies, Literature, Entire Library

...texts in helping New England Puritans achieve and maintain a sense...efficacy of that truth. The Puritan writer was to avoid anything, however...reveries on this world. Indeed, Puritans may have had more liking than...similarly observes that The Puritan never hated literature or...
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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

...normal ideal of the "plain" the Puritan conception of history, the theory...General Introduction." Because the Puritan writer held that everything that has happened...facts but to interpret them. Thus Puritan history was peculiarly obliged...
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The Puritan Way of Death: A Study in Religion, Culture, and Social Change

Book by David E. Stannard; Oxford University Press, 1979

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Death, Puritans--New England

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

...rational response. As more than one Puritan writer suggested, to fail to be frightened...that went into the making of the Puritan childs fear of death: it was...touching on a variety of matters that Puritan children had to face every day...
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Puritans and Adventurers: Change and Persistence in Early America

Book by T. H. Breen; Oxford University Press, 1980

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Massachusetts--History--Colonial Period, Ca. 1600-1775, Puritans--Massachusetts, Virginia--History--Colonial Period, Ca. 1600-1775

Collections: Religious Studies, History, Entire Library

...that the decision was forced upon the Bay rulers. Puritan leaders probably concluded that the men who elected...words, members of a Congregational church. 51 As one Puritan writer explained, "There are none chosen to office in any...

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Journal Articles on: puritan writer

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Puritan Daughters and "Wild" Indians: Elizabeth Oakes Smith's Narratives of Domestic Captivity

Journal article by Caroline M. Woidat; Legacy: A Journal of American Women Writers, Vol. 18, 2001

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Native Americans--Portrayals, depictions, etc., Smith, Elizabeth Oakes--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Women authors--19th century

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

Puritan Daughters and "Wild" Indians...those "scribbling" women writers Hawthorne disparaged whose...eclipsed her achievements as a writer of poetry and fiction. 2...then, that in The Prose Writers of America (1847) Rufus...the precise moment that the Puritan authorities seize Hope...from the persecution of the Puritans by good-intentioned Indians...
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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

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...known Devonshire writer of Puritan background...number of women writers who found themselves...altogether the writers specific political...of Quaker women writers that a rich style...allegiances of those from Puritan background born...and most former Puritans, particularly...family of "devout Puritans," who were noted...Barnstaple, a Puritan enclave in Devon...
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John Goodwin and the Puritan Revolution: Religion and Intellectual Change in Seventeenth-Century England

Journal article by Richard W. Cogley; Renaissance Quarterly, Vol. 60, 2007

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Books--Book reviews, John Goodwin and the Puritan Revolution: Religion and Intellectual Change in Seventeenth-Century England (Book)--Book reviews

Collections: Religious Studies, History, Literature, Entire Library

...goodness John Coffey is a superb writer and an authority on mid...this study of the English Puritan controversialist John Goodwin...professional career as vicar of the Puritan parish of St. Stephens...left of many members of the Puritan movement, especially Presbyterians. He was among the first Puritans to advocate armed rebellion...
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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

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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

...White, Bunyan, and other Puritan autobiographers who deny...text and their life, these writers transform the resolution...fully functional within, the Puritan experience. As Tom Webster...is to be subverted by the writer who must strive to avoid...Todd has shown is typical of Puritan diaries. For Puritans, Todd argues, "the act...
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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

...form and style that major writers bequeath to their heirs...of Ben," the very un-Puritan Cavalier school, than of...We have learned to view Puritan religious orthodoxy not as...earlier generations of English Puritans, has begun to be appreciated...Knight shows that American Puritan culture was basically unstable...with religious schism, a writer who gave a habitation to...

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Magazine Articles on: puritan writer

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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

...fault of the orthodox Puritans themselves, for embracing...suppress them? The Puritans chose suppression...of dispute. Did the Puritan commonwealth finally...some of the leading Puritan apologists tried to...quotes one influential writer who went to the length...without irony: orthodox Puritans finally admitted that...
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A Puritan's Dilemma

Magazine article by Theo Anderson; In These Times, Vol. 36, February 2012

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Freedoms, Novels, Politics, Religion, Wallace, David Foster, Writers

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

...city upon a hill" that the Puritans left England to build. Calvinist...Edmund Morgan wrote in The Puritan Dilemma, a classic account...hard determinism of the early Puritans had been fading for decades...denominations resolved the Puritan dilemma by denying the determinism...of conversations with the writer David Lipsky after Infinite...
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Making a Difference: Puritans and Slaves

Magazine article by Katie Towler; Humanities, Vol. 22, January 2001

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Government, History, Morgan, Edmund S, Personal profiles, Writers

Collections: History, Entire Library

Making a Difference: Puritans and Slaves by Katie Towler "Curiosity...eighteen books, Morgan has written on the Puritans and the intellectual foundations of...as Visible Saints: The History of a Puritan Idea and American Slavery, American...explores the contradictions surrounding the Puritans of New England and the slave owners...
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God and the American Writer

Magazine article by Marc M. Arkin; New Criterion, Vol. 16, March 1998

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Books--Reviews, God and the American Writer (Book)--Reviews

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...gloom and chill prevailing in Puritan times." Emerson was "a...avers that the "American writer was so self-sufficient...style as the self-dependent writers of the `inner light he condemned...individualism of the American writer. What insights does it supply...of gnosticism and to treat writers as its exemplars. What does...original sin that restrained the Puritans from fusing God and nature...
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The Puritan Covenant II: Anti-Modernism and the "Contract with America."

Magazine article by Jay Hatheway; The Humanist, Vol. 55, July 1995

Subjects:

Conservatism--Analysis, Modernism--Analysis, Republican Party--Beliefs, opinions and attitudes

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...George Will, the conservative writer and television commentator...Inspired by John Calvin, the Puritan covenant was clearly elaborated...informed by the god of the Puritan covenant as the single most...American civilization": The Puritans had a deeply personal sense...

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Newspaper Articles on: puritan writer

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The Witch Report; Puritan's Diary Details Persecution of the 'Devil's Women'

Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), October 29, 2010

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Execution (Punishment)--Reports, Executions and executioners--Reports, Hopkins, Matthew, Puritans--Reports, West, Rebecca, Dame

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

The Witch Report; Puritans Diary Details Persecution of the Devils Women. Byline: James...but condemning her mother to the gallows. It is the account of Puritan writer, Nehemiah Wallington, who tells how a supposed coven of witches...
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The Witch Report; Puritan's Diary Details Persecution of the 'Devil's Women'

Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), October 29, 2010

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Execution (Punishment)--Reports, Executions and executioners--Reports, Hopkins, Matthew, Puritans--Reports, West, Rebecca, Dame

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

The Witch Report; Puritans Diary Details Persecution of the Devils Women. Byline: James...but condemning her mother to the gallows. It is the account of Puritan writer, Nehemiah Wallington, who tells how a supposed coven of witches...
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Down with the PC Puritans! Politically Correct Zealots Must Not Be Allowed to Destroy the True Wonder of Christmas, Writes THE ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY

Newspaper article; The Mail on Sunday (London, England), December 18, 2005

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

Down with the PC Puritans! Politically Correct...Christian enough. The Puritans of that age were disgusted...think that, just as the Puritan attack on Christmas didnt...AS THE detective story writer Dorothy Sayers remarked...isnt is boring. The Puritan attack on Christmas was...
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Genius among Puritans

Newspaper article; The Washington Times, May 16, 2004

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Mencken, H.L.

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

Genius among Puritans. Byline: John C. "Chuck...something to love about a writer who is not exactly remembered...Americans were invariably Puritans at heart. Proving that point...is to say formerly anti-Puritan San Franciscans, masquerading as born-again Puritans by demanding to be married...
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GIVE ME A BREAK; as the Lazy Days of Summer Wind Down, a Leading Writer Considers the Significance of Holidays. Are They Ideal for Cementing Family Ties? SATURDAY ESSAY

Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), August 13, 2011

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

...Lazy Days of Summer Wind Down, a Leading Writer Considers the Significance of Holidays...hidden purpose? To flush out the inner Puritan? Possibly, but is a bit of holiday Puritanism all bad? For instance, it may be Puritan to say so, but family holidays are really...

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Encyclopedia Articles on: puritan writer

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Mather, Cotton

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

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

...math r, 1663 1728, American Puritan clergyman and writer, b. Boston, grad. Harvard...celebrated of all New England Puritan ministers. He was a scholar...narrow, intolerant, severe Puritan, and his part in the Salem witch...
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American Literature

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

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

...work published in the Puritan colonies was the Bay...state included excellent writers, among them Thomas...every aspiring American writer and was first achieved...realism to other American writers. Though he himself...a number of American writers, particularly Stephen...reform as well as a writer of Klondike stories...
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Hawthorne, Nathaniel

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

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

...novelist and short-story writer, b. Salem, Mass., one...Descended from a prominent Puritan family, Hawthorne was the...1850). Set in 17th-century Puritan New England, the novel delves...celebrated as a short-story writer. He helped to establish the...
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English Literature

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

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

...tastes widened. The lifting of Puritan restrictions and the reassembling...policies of appeasement, many writers and intellectuals sought solutions...After the war most English writers chose to focus on aesthetic...stands out, and the Scottish writer James Kelman stands out. Bibliography...
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Pritchett, V. S

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

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

...Victor Sawdon Pritchett)prich it, 1900 1997, British writer, b. Ipswich. Largely self-educated, he was a distinguished...of his five novels, Mr. Beluncle (1951), the tale of a Puritan eccentric. Pritchett was a respected literary critic, e...

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