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Author Kibbey, Ann, 1948-

Title The interpretation of material shapes in Puritanism : a study of rhetoric, prejudice, and violence / Ann Kibbey
Published Cambridge [Cambridgeshire] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1986

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Description xi, 203 pages ; 24 cm
Series Cambridge studies in American literature and culture
Cambridge studies in American literature and culture.
Contents Machine derived contents note: 1. Introductory: figures of prejudice; 2. The referential imperative; 3. Iconoclastic materialism; 4. Verbal images, history and marriage; 5. 1637: the Pequot War and the antinomian controversy; 6. Apocalyptic hierarchy; Appendix; Notes; Index
Analysis United States Puritan culture, ca 1600-1800
Notes Includes index
Bibliography Bibliography: pages 160-199
Subject American prose literature -- Puritan authors -- History and criticism.
American prose literature -- Colonial period, 1600-1775 -- History and criticism
American prose literature -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 -- History and criticism.
American prose literature -- New England -- History and criticism.
Christian literature, American -- History and criticism.
English language -- United States -- Rhetoric.
Iconoclasm in literature.
Idols and images in literature.
Prejudices in literature.
Puritan movements in literature.
Puritans -- New England -- History.
Puritans -- New England -- Intellectual life.
Rhetoric -- Early works to 1800.
Rhetoric -- History.
Rhetoric -- 1500-1800
Rhetoric.
Theology in literature.
Violence in literature.
LC no. 85012806
ISBN 0521265096