Title American literature and the new Puritan studies / edited by Bryce Traister, University of British Columbia (Okanagan)

Published Cambridge ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2017 ©2017

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 242 pages) Contents Introduction: The New Puritan Studies -- Part I. Unexpected Puritans -- Part II. Puritanism's Others -- Part III. Puritan Afterlives Summary "This book contains thirteen original essays about Puritan culture in colonial New England. Prompted by the growing interest in secular studies, as well as postnational, transnational, and postcolonial critique in the humanities, American Literature and the New Puritan Studies seeks to represent and advance contemporary interest in a field long recognized, however problematically, as foundational to the study of American literature. It invites readers of American literature and culture to reconsider the role of seventeenth-century Puritanism in the creation of the United States of America and its consequent cultural and literary histories. It also records the significant transformation in the field of Puritan studies that has taken place in the last quarter century. In addition to re-reading well known texts of seventeenth-century Puritan New England, the volume contains essays focused on unknown or lesser studied events and texts, as well as new scholarship on post-Puritan archives, monuments, and historiography"-- Provided by publisher Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Print version record Subject American literature -- Puritan authors -- History and criticism American literature -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 -- History and criticism Puritans -- New England -- Intellectual life Christianity and literature -- United States -- History -- 17th century Puritans in literature. LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General. American literature -- Colonial period American literature -- Puritan authors Christianity and literature Puritans in literature Puritans -- Intellectual life New England United States Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. History Form Electronic book Author Traister, Bryce, editor ISBN 9781316182253 1316182258 9781108523912 1108523919 9781107499409 1107499402

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