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100 1 _aShurr, William.
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245 1 0 _aRappaccini's children
_bAmerican writers in a Calvinist world /
_cWilliam H. Shurr.
260 _aLexington :
_bThe University Press of Kentucky,
_c(c)1981.
300 _a1 online resource (174 pages)
336 _atext
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337 _acomputer
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338 _aonline resource
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505 0 0 _aCover; 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.
520 0 _aNathaniel 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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650 0 _aAmerican literature
_xHistory and criticism.
650 0 _aCalvinism in literature.
650 0 _aCalvinism
_zUnited States.
650 4 _aAmerican literature
_xHistory and criticism.
650 4 _aCalvinism
_zUnited States.
650 4 _aCalvinism in literature.
655 1 _aElectronic Books.
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_bCynthia Snell
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