Shurr, William. <br/><br/>
Rappaccini's children  American writers in a Calvinist world / 
William H. Shurr. 
 - Lexington :  The University Press of Kentucky,  (c)1981. 
 - 1 online resource (174 pages) 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographies and index. 
<br/><br/>Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; 1 Introduction; 2 The Persistence of Calvinism; 3 America's Copernican Revolution; 4 The Revolution Expanded; 5 Death and the Deity; 6 Violence and the Political Order; 7 The Southern Experience; 8 Calvinism and the Tragic Sense; 9 Epilogue; Notes; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Z. 
<br/><br/> Nathaniel Hawthorne's short story ""Rappaccini's Daughter"" tells of a beautiful girl who has, from birth, absorbed the poison from the flowers of her father's garden. In this allegorical tale of the fallen Garden of Eden, William H. Shurr finds a metaphor for the fate of many American writers, for whom the heritage of calvinism has been the poisoned fruit of the Garden of the New World. For many American writers, the legacy of the Puritan Fathers has been a pervasive sense of sinfulness and guilt in a violent and unforgiving universe. In this new study Shurr examines how these writers have cop. 
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<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780813164625 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>American literature--History and criticism.<br/>Calvinism in literature.<br/>Calvinism--United States.<br/>American literature--History and criticism.<br/>Calvinism--United States.<br/>Calvinism in literature.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic Books.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>PS166  / .R377 1981