Puritan influences in American literature /

Puritan influences in American literature / [print] edited by Emory Elliott. - Urbana : University of Illinois Press, (c)1979. - xx, 212 pages : map ; 24 cm. - Illinois studies in language and literature ; 65 . - Illinois studies in language and literature ; vol. 65. .

Includes bibliographical references.

Roger Williams and John Milton: the calling of the Puritan writer "The posy unity": Anne Bradstreet's search for order The jawbones schema of Edward Taylor's Gods determinations The example of Edwards: idealist imagination and the metaphysics of sovereignty The Puritan roots of American Whig rhetoric Resolution in The marble faun: a minority view Travelling in Concord: the world of Thoreau's journal Herman Melville's wandering Jews God, father, and lover in Emily Dickinson's poetry O. Glade Hunsaker -- Emily Stipes Watts -- William J. Scheick -- Michael J. Colacurcio -- Emory Elliott -- Claudia D. Johnson -- William L. Howarth -- Bernard Rosenthal -- Nina Baym.



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American literature--History and criticism.
National characteristics, American, in literature.
Puritan movements in literature.

PS166 PS166.E46.P875 1979