The rungless ladder
Subtitle: Harriet Beecher Stowe and New England Puritanism
By: by Charles H. Foster.
Publisher: Cooper Square Publishers
Published: 1970
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 278
Subjects: Stowe, Harriet Beecher, 1811-1896 -- Religion; Women and literature -- New England -- History -- 19th century; Puritan movements in literature; Puritans -- New England
Description: Foster considers Stowe as New England's most revealing native novelist. Her whole life was a struggle with the premises Jonathan Edwards established. Original sin, predestination, grace, heaven, and hell: these were her primary points of reference as she carried out "symbolic action" in writing her novels.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.