A History of American Puritan Literature
Title | A History of American Puritan Literature PDF eBook |
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.
American Literature and the New Puritan Studies
Title | American Literature and the New Puritan Studies PDF eBook |
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.
From Puritanism to Postmodernism
Title | From Puritanism to Postmodernism PDF eBook |
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.
Increase Mather, the Foremost American Puritan
Title | Increase Mather, the Foremost American Puritan PDF eBook |
Author | Kenneth Ballard Murdock |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 522 |
Release | 1925 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN |
The Puritan Origins of the American Self
Title | The Puritan Origins of the American Self PDF eBook |
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.
The Puritan Tradition in America, 1620-1730
Title | The Puritan Tradition in America, 1620-1730 PDF eBook |
Author | Alden T. Vaughan |
Publisher | UPNE |
Total Pages | 388 |
Release | 1972 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780874518528 |
A classic documentary collection on New England's Puritan roots is once again available, with new material.
The American Puritans, Their Prose and Poetry
Title | The American Puritans, Their Prose and Poetry PDF eBook |
Author | Perry Miller |
Publisher | Columbia University Press |
Total Pages | 364 |
Release | 1956 |
Genre | American literature |
ISBN | 9780231054195 |
Selections from the writings of Puritans in New England in the first century of colonial life.