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For generations, scholars have imagined American puritans as religious enthusiasts, fleeing persecution, finding refuge in Massachusetts, and founding 'America'. The puritans have been read as a product of New England and the origin of American exceptionalism. This History challenges the usual understanding of American puritans, offering new ways of reading their history and their literary culture. Together, an international team of authors make clear that puritan America cannot be thought of apart from Native America, and that its literature is also grounded in Britain, Europe, North America, the Caribbean, and networks that spanned the globe. Each chapter focuses on a single place, method, idea, or context to read familiar texts anew and to introduce forgotten or neglected voices and writings. A History of American Puritan Literature is a collaborative effort to create not a singular literary history, but a series of interlocked new histories of American puritan literature.
From Modernist/Postmodernist perspective, leading critics Richard Ruland (American) and Malcolm Bradbury (British) address questions of literary and cultural nationalism. They demonstrate that since the seventeenth century, American writing has reflected the political and historical climate of its time and helped define America's cultural and social parameters. Above all, they argue that American literature has always been essentially "modern," illustrating this with a broad range of texts: from Poe and Melville to Fitzgerald and Pound, to Wallace Stevens, Gwendolyn Brooks, and Thomas Pynchon. From Puritanism to Postmodernism pays homage to the luxuriance of American writing by tracing the creation of a national literature that retained its deep roots in European culture while striving to achieve cultural independence.
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.
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In a felicitous blend of documents and narrative Heimert and Delbanco recapture the sweep and restless change of Puritan thought from its incipient Americanism through its dominance in New England society to its fragmentation in the face of dissent from within and without.
Perry Miller was born in Chicago on February 25, 1905. He was educated at the University of Chicago where he received his Ph.D. degree in 1931. Since then Mr. Miller taught at Harvard University and in 1946 became a Professor of American Literature there. He died in 1963. He was the author of Orthodoxy in Massachusetts (1933); The New England Mind (1939); Jonathan Edwards (1949); Roger Williams (1953); The Raven and the Whale (1956); and Errand into the Wilderness (1956). This anthology is organized as follows: Foreword Chapter One. History 1. William Bradford, 1590-1657 Of Plymouth Plantation 2. Thomas Shepard, 1605-1649 A Defense of the Answer 3. Edward Johnson, 1598-1672 Wonder-Working Providence of Sion’s Savior 4. John Winthrop, 1588-1649 Journal 5. John Winthrop, 1588-1649 The Antinomian Crisis 6. Cotton Mather, 1663-1728 A General Introduction Chapter Two. State and Society 1. John Winthrop, 1588-1649 A Model of Christian Charity 2. John Cotton, 1584-1652 Limitation of Government 3. Thomas Hooker, 1586-1647 Hartford Election Sermon 4. John Winthrop, 1588-1649 Speech to the General Court 5. Nathaniel Ward, 1578-1652 The Simple Cobler of Aggawam 6. Jonathan Mitchell, 1624-1668 Nehemiah on the Wall 7. William Stoughton, 1631-1701 New England’s True Interest 8. William Hubbard, 1621-1704 The Happiness of a People 9. John Wise, 1652-1725 Vindication of the Government of New England Churches 10. Jonathan Mayhew, 1720-1766 A Discourse Concerning Unlimited Submission Chapter Three. This World and the Next 1. Thomas Shepard, 1605-1649 The Covenant of Grace 2. Peter Bulkeley, 1583-1659 The Lesson of the Covenant, for England and New England 3. Thomas Hooker, 1586-1647 A True Sight of Sin 4. Thomas Hooker, 1586-1647 Repentant Sinners and Their Ministers 5. John Cotton, 1584-1652 Christian Calling 6. Increase Mather, 1639-1723 Man Knows Not His Time 7. Urian Oakes, 1631-1681 The Sovereign Efficacy of Divine Providence 8. Samuel Sewall, 1652-1730 Phaenomena 9. Cotton Mather, 1663-1728 Bonifacius 10. Solomon Stoddard, 1643-1729 Concerning Ancestors Chapter Four. Personal Narrative 1. Thomas Shepard, 1605-1649 Autobiography 2. Increase Mather, 1639-1723 Richard Mather 3. Samuel Sewall, 1652-1730 Diary 4. John Williams, 1664-1729 The Redeemed Captive Chapter Five. Poetry 1. Anne Bradstreet, 1612-1672 Several Poems 2. Anne Bradstreet, 1612-1672 Meditations 3. Michael Wigglesworth, 1631-1705 The Day of Doom 4. Michael Wigglesworth, 1631-1705 God’s Controversy With New England 5. E.B. A Threnodia 6. Edward Taylor, 1645?-1729 God’s Determinations Touching His Elect 7. Edward Taylor, 1645?-1729 Poems and Sacramental Meditations Chapter Six. Literary and Educational Ideals 1. Richard Mather, 1596-1669 The Bay Psalm Book 2. New England’s First Fruits New England’s First Fruits 3. Michael Wigglesworth, 1631-1705 The Praise of Eloquence 4. Cotton Mather, 1663-1728 Of Style
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In Godly Letters, Michael J. Colacurcio analyzes a treasury of works written by the first generation of seventeenth-century American Puritans. Arguing that insufficient scrutiny has been given this important oeuvre, he calls for a reevaluation of the imaginative and creative qualities of America's early literature of inspired ecclesiological experiment, one that focuses on the quality of the works as well as the demanding theology they express. Colacurcio gives a detailed, richly contextualized account of the meaning of these "godly letters" in rhetorical, theological, and political terms. From his close readings of the major texts by the first generation of Puritans-including William Bradford, Thomas Hooker, Edward Johnson, John Winthrop, Thomas Shepard, and John Cotton-he expertly illuminates qualities other studies have often overlooked. In his words, close study of the literature yields work "comprehensive, circumspect, determined subtle, energetic, relentlessly intellectual, playful in spite of their cultural prohibitions, in spite of themselves, even, they are in every way remarkable products of a culture that . . . assigned an extraordinarily high place to the life of words." Magisterial in sweep, Godly Letters is likely to stand as the definitive work on the Puritan literary achievement.
A classic documentary collection on New England's Puritan roots is once again available, with new material.