New England beyond criticism : in defense of America's first literature / Elisa New.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

New, Elisa, author.

Series:

Wiley-Blackwell manifestos

Wiley Blackwell manifestos

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American literature--New England--History and criticism.

American literature.

College teachers--Biography.

College teachers.

Literature and society.

History.

New England.

Literature and society--United States--History.

New England--In literature.

New England--Intellectual life.

Intellectual life.

United States--Intellectual life.

United States.

New, Elisa.

Genre:

Autobiographies.

Physical Description:

ix, 322 pages ; 24 cm.

Other Title:

In defense of America's first literature

Place of Publication:

Chichester, West Sussex : Wiley Blackwell, 2014.

Summary:

"Timely and beautifully written, New England Beyond Criticism provides a passionate defense of the importance of the literature of New England to the American literary canon, and its impact on the development of spirituality, community, and culture in America. An exploration and defense of the prominence of New England's literary tradition within the canon of American literature. Traces the impact of the literature of New England on the development of spirituality, community, and culture in America. Includes in-depth studies of work from authors and poets such as William Bradford, Emily Dickinson, Robert Frost, Henry David Thoreau, Susan Howe, and Marilynne Robinson. Examines the place and impression of New England literature in the nation's intellectual history and the lives of its readers"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

1. Introduction: New England Beyond Criticism. Part I. Excitations: Protestant Ups and Downs; 2. Variety as Religious Experience: Four Case Studies: Dickinson, Edwards, Taylor and Cotton; 3. The Popularity of Doom: From Wigglesworth, Poe and Stowe through the The Da Vinci Code; 4. I Take "no less than skies": Dickinson's Flights

Part II. Congregations: Rites of Assembly; 5. Lost in the Woods Again: Coming Home to Wilderness in Bradford, Thoreau, Frost, and Bishop; 6. Growing Up a Goodman: Hawthorne's Way; 7. "Shall Not Perish from the Earth": The Counting of Souls in Jewett, DuBois, E.A. Robinson and Frost; 8. Disinheriting New England: Robert Lowell's Reformations

Part III. Matriculations: In Academic Terms; 9. Winter at the Corner of Quincy and Harvard: The Brothers James;10. Upon a Peak in Beinecke: Susan Howe in the Connecticut Valley; 11. Balm for the Prodigal: Marilynne Robinson's Gilead; 12. A Fable For Critics: Autobiographical Epilogue.

Notes:

The final chapter, A Fable for Critics: Autobiographical Epilogue, is about the author.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: New, Elisa. New England beyond criticism

ISBN:

9781118854532

1118854535

9781118854549

1118854543

OCLC:

862207387

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