American literature and the new Puritan studies / edited by Bryce Traister.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Traister, Bryce, editor.

Cambridge University Press.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American literature--Puritan authors--History and criticism.

American literature.

American literature--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775--History and criticism.

Puritans--New England--Intellectual life.

Puritans.

Christianity and literature.

History.

American literature--Puritan authors.

New England.

Intellectual life.

Christianity and literature--United States--History--17th century.

Puritans in literature.

United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (pages cm.)

Place of Publication:

Cambridge ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2017.

System Details:

text file

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: 1. Introduction: the new Puritan studies Bryce Traister; Part I. Unexpected Puritans: 2. Sovereignty and grace: Hobbes and the Puritans Paul Downes; 3. Sabbatai Sevi and the Ottoman Jews in Increase Mather's The Mystery of Israel's Salvation Nan Goodman; 4. Benjamin Colman, laughter, and Church membership in late seventeenth- and early eighteenth-century Massachusetts Michael Schuldiner; 5. A pre-millennial portrait during the revocation of the Massachusetts Charter Linda M. Johnson; Part II. Puritanism's Others: 6. Imperial translations: new world missionary linguistics, indigenous interpreters, and universal languages in the early modern era Allison Margaret Bigelow; 7. Native poetics in Edward Johnson's Wonder-Working Providence of Sions Saviour in New England Betty Booth Donohue; 8. Pregnancy and anxiety: medicine, religion, and the occult in Cotton Mather's The Angel of Bethesda Brice Peterson; 9. Monuments of grace and spectacles of terror: Cotton Mather and the case of William Fly Jason M. Payton; Part III. Puritan Afterlives: 10. Puritan acts and monuments Jonathan Beecher Field; 11. Toward digital Puritan studies: iconoclasm, child mortality, and patterns of mourning in the Farber Gravestone Collection Harry Brown; 12. What do we know about the New England Puritans, and when did we know it? Twenty-first century reconsiderations of William Bradford and John Winthrop Michael Ditmore; 13. Claiming the high ground: Catholics, Protestants, and the City on a Hill Abram C. Van Engen; 14. Afterword: '... and American literature' Bryce Traister; Select bibliography; Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Electronic reproduction. Cambridge Available via World Wide Web.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781316182253

1316182258

Publisher Number:

40027469354

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