Title: The rungless ladder
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.
Subjects: History, Puritan movements in literature, Puritans, Religion, Women and literature, Criticism and interpretation, Puritanismus, Stowe, harriet beecher, 1811-1896
Places: New England
People: Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811-1896)
Time periods: 19th century