The American Puritan imagination
Subtitle: essays in revaluation.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1974
Place of publication: [London; New York]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 265
Subjects: American literature -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 -- History and criticism; American literature -- Puritan authors -- History and criticism; American literature -- New England -- History and criticism; Puritans -- New England -- Intellectual life; American literature -- English influences; Colonies in literature; New England -- Intellectual life -- 18th century; New England -- Intellectual life -- 17th century
Table of contents: title: Grabo, N. S. The veiled vision: the role of aesthetics in early American intellectual history.; title: Ziff, L. Literary consequences of Puritanism.; title: Minter, D. The Puritan jeremiad as a literary form.; title: Tichi, C. Spiritual biography and the 'Lords Remembrancers'.; title: Rosenmeier, J. 'With my owne eyes': William Bradford's Of Plymouth Plantation.; title: Richardson, R. D. The Puritan poetry of Anne Bradstreet.; title: Keller, K. The example of Edward Taylor.; title: Levin, D. Essays to do good for the glory of God: Cotton Mather's Bonifacius.; title: Shea, D. B. The art and instruction of Jonathan Edwards' Personal narrative.; title: Lynen, J. F. Benjamin Franklin and the choice of a single point of view.; title: Brumm, U. Christ and Adam as 'figures' in American literature.; title: Bibliography (p. [241]-258)