A House Undivided
Subtitle: Domesticity and Community in American Literature (Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: April 2, 2009
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 252
ISBN-13: 9780521107303
Subjects: Literature & Fiction -- History & Criticism -- Criticism & Theory; Literature & Fiction -- World Literature -- United States -- Classics; Literature & Fiction -- World Literature -- United States -- History & Criticism; Reference -- Writing
First sentence: The Book of Deuteronomy, particularly its closing chapters, had an irresistible appeal for the first generation of New England Puritans because of the parallels they recognized between their own situation and that of the Children of Israel, poised upon the borders of the Promised Land.