Godly letters the literature of the American Puritans

A costly Canaan : Morton and the margins of American literature -- Advancing the gospel, dividing the church : Bradford's Plymouth -- "A strange poise of spirit" : the life and deaths of Thomas Shepard -- The charter and the "model" : writing Winthrop's holy state -- Do...

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1. Verfasser: Colacurcio, Michael J. (VerfasserIn)
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Sprache:eng
Veröffentlicht: Notre Dame, Ind. Univ. of Notre Dame Press 2006
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Zusammenfassung:A costly Canaan : Morton and the margins of American literature -- Advancing the gospel, dividing the church : Bradford's Plymouth -- "A strange poise of spirit" : the life and deaths of Thomas Shepard -- The charter and the "model" : writing Winthrop's holy state -- Doubt's venture, faith's call : Shepard's activist Calvinism -- Regeneration through violence : Hooker and the morale of preparation -- Primitive comfort : the spiritual witness of John Cotton -- Wives and lovers : reaction and the gender of Puritanism -- Marching orders : Johnson's summary syntax -- Government in exile : Williams and the decay of dialogue -- Epilogue: "God's altar" : the fall to poetry
Beschreibung:Includes index
Beschreibung:XIX, 650 S.
ISBN:0268022909
0-268-02290-9
9780268022907
978-0-268-02290-7