American Literature and the New Puritan Studies

Author： Bryce Traister  

Publisher： Cambridge University Press‎

Publication year： 2017

E-ISBN: 9781108514972

P-ISBN(Paperback): 9781107101883

Subject： B976.3 Protestant (Protestant, Protestant)

Keyword： 文学评论、文学欣赏

Language： ENG

Access to resources Favorite

Disclaimer: Any content in publications that violate the sovereignty, the constitution or regulations of the PRC is not accepted or approved by CNPIEC.

American Literature and the New Puritan Studies

Description

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.

Chapter

Cover

Half-title page

Title page

Copyright page

Contents

List of Illustrations

List of Contributors

Acknowledgments

1 Introduction: The New Puritan Studies

Part I Unexpected Puritans

2 Sovereignty and Grace: Hobbes and the Puritans

3 Sabbatai Sevi and the Ottoman Jews in Increase Mather’s The Mystery of Israel’s Salvation

4 Benjamin Colman, Laughter, and Church Membership in Late Seventeenth- and Early Eighteenth-Century Massachusetts

5 A Pre-Millennial Portrait during the Revocation of the Massachusetts Charter

Part II Puritanism’s Others

6 Imperial Translations: New World Missionary Linguistics, Indigenous Interpreters, and Universal Languages in the Early Modern Era

7 Native Poetics in Edward Johnson’s Wonder-Working Providence of Sions Saviour in New England

8 Pregnancy and Anxiety: Medicine, Religion, and the Occult in Cotton Mather’s The Angel of Bethesda

9 Piracy, Piety, and Providence in Cotton Mather’s The Vial Poured Out upon the Sea

Part III Puritan Afterlives

10 Puritan Acts and Monuments

11 Toward Digital Puritan Studies: Iconoclasm, Child Mortality, and Patterns of Mourning in the Farber Gravestone Collection

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

13 Claiming the High Ground: Catholics, Protestants, and the City on a Hill

14 Afterword: “ … And American Literature”

A Select Bibliography for Further Reading

Index

The users who browse this book also browse


No browse record.