Design in Puritan American literature /William J. Scheick.
Scheick, William J.,
Design in Puritan American literature /William J. Scheick. - Lexington : The University Press of Kentucky, (c)1992. - 1 online resource
Includes bibliographies and index.
Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Introduction; 1. The Necessity of Language; Words Like Wooden Horses William Bradford and Thomas Morton; Double-Talk Renaissance and Reformed Traditions; Concealed Verbal Artistry Richard Mather and Edward Taylor; 2. The Winding Sheet of Meditative Verse; The Wrack of Mortal Poets Anne Bradstreet's Contemplations -- Unfolding the Twisting Serpent Edward Taylor's Meditation 1.19 -- 3. Laughter and Death; All in Jest Nathaniel Ward's The Simple Cobler; Dissolving Stones Urian Oakes's Elegy on Thomas Shepard; 4. Breaking Verbal Icons. Nature, Reason, and Language Jonathan Edwards in ReactionFrom Something to Nothing to Everything Edwards's Early Sermons; 5. Islands of Meaning; Eighteenth-Century Allegory or Satire? Nathan Fiske's An Allegorical Description -- The Letter Killeth Edward Bellamy's To Whom This May Come -- Notes; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; W; Y; Z.
Puritan American writers faced a dilemma: they had an obligation to use language as a celebration of divine artistry, but they could not allow their writing to become an iconic graven image of authorial self-idolatry. In this study William Scheick explores one way in which William Bradford, Nathaniel Ward, Anne Bradstreet, Urian Oakes, Edward Taylor, and Jonathan Edwards mediated these conflicting imperatives.
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9780813164205
American literature--Puritan authors--History and criticism.
American literature--History and criticism.--New England
Christian literature, American--History and criticism.
Puritans--Intellectual life.--New England
English language--Rhetoric.--United States
Rhetoric--History.--United States
American literature History and criticism Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 American literature History and criticism New England American literature Puritan authors History and criticism Christian literature, American History and criticism English language Rhetoric United States Geschichte 1600-1900 Puritans Intellectual life New England
Electronic Books.
PS153 / .D475 1992
Design in Puritan American literature /William J. Scheick. - Lexington : The University Press of Kentucky, (c)1992. - 1 online resource
Includes bibliographies and index.
Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Introduction; 1. The Necessity of Language; Words Like Wooden Horses William Bradford and Thomas Morton; Double-Talk Renaissance and Reformed Traditions; Concealed Verbal Artistry Richard Mather and Edward Taylor; 2. The Winding Sheet of Meditative Verse; The Wrack of Mortal Poets Anne Bradstreet's Contemplations -- Unfolding the Twisting Serpent Edward Taylor's Meditation 1.19 -- 3. Laughter and Death; All in Jest Nathaniel Ward's The Simple Cobler; Dissolving Stones Urian Oakes's Elegy on Thomas Shepard; 4. Breaking Verbal Icons. Nature, Reason, and Language Jonathan Edwards in ReactionFrom Something to Nothing to Everything Edwards's Early Sermons; 5. Islands of Meaning; Eighteenth-Century Allegory or Satire? Nathan Fiske's An Allegorical Description -- The Letter Killeth Edward Bellamy's To Whom This May Come -- Notes; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; W; Y; Z.
Puritan American writers faced a dilemma: they had an obligation to use language as a celebration of divine artistry, but they could not allow their writing to become an iconic graven image of authorial self-idolatry. In this study William Scheick explores one way in which William Bradford, Nathaniel Ward, Anne Bradstreet, Urian Oakes, Edward Taylor, and Jonathan Edwards mediated these conflicting imperatives.
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.
http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212
9780813164205
American literature--Puritan authors--History and criticism.
American literature--History and criticism.--New England
Christian literature, American--History and criticism.
Puritans--Intellectual life.--New England
English language--Rhetoric.--United States
Rhetoric--History.--United States
American literature History and criticism Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 American literature History and criticism New England American literature Puritan authors History and criticism Christian literature, American History and criticism English language Rhetoric United States Geschichte 1600-1900 Puritans Intellectual life New England
Electronic Books.
PS153 / .D475 1992