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The Puritan cosmopolis : the law of nations and the early American imagination / Nan Goodman.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Goodman, Nan, 1957- author.
- Series:
- Oxford studies in American literary history.
- Oxford Studies in American Literary History
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- American literature--Puritan authors--History and criticism.
- American literature.
- Law and literature--United States--History--17th century.
- Law and literature.
- Puritans--New England--Intellectual life--17th century.
- Puritans.
- Puritan movements in literature.
- New England--Civilization--17th century.
- New England.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (198 pages).
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2018.
- Summary:
- This work traces the emergence of a sense of kinship with and belonging to a larger, more inclusive world within the law and literature of late seventeenth-century Puritanism.
- Contents:
- Prologue: The literary cosmopolis and its legal past
- The law of nations and the sources of the cosmopolis
- The cosmopolitan covenant
- The manufactured millennium
- Evidentiary cosmopolitanism
- Cosmopolitan communication and the discourse of pietism
- Epilogue: The law of the cosmopolis and its literary past.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Includes index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-087441-4
- 0-19-064284-X
- 0-19-064283-1
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