Title: Doctrine and Difference
Description: Doctrine and Difference shows how the spirit and forms of liberalism are a necessary but by no means sufficient explanation for the flowering of literature in this period. The colonialist writers, in Colacurcio's view, attempted to have things their own provincial way amidst an air of rejection by the cosmopolitan literary establishment.

Capturing the violence of repression, the energy required to meet its moral argument head on, and the disease of embattled survival, Doctrine and Difference shows how these works are in many ways the literary remnants of Puritanism.
Subjects: Christianity and literature, American literature, history and criticism, New england, in literature, New england, history, New england, intellectual life, Puritans, Intellectual life, History and criticism, American literature, American Authors, Puritan movements in literature, Homes and haunts, Puritan authors, In literature, History, Littérature américaine, Histoire et critique, Auteurs puritains, Christianisme et littérature, Histoire, Puritanisme dans la littérature, Nouvelle-Angleterre dans la littérature, Vie intellectuelle, Écrivains américains, Résidences et lieux familiers, Dans la littérature, LITERARY CRITICISM, American, General, Literature, Puritanismus, Literatur, Letterkunde, Amerikaans, Puriteinen, Christelijke literatuur