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American literature and the new Puritan studies

Traister, Bryce, editor

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\"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\"-- Provided by publisher.

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Subject: American literature Puritan authors History and criticism. / American literature Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 History and criticism. / Puritans New England Intellectual life. / Christianity and literature United States History 17th century. / Puritans in literature.
• ISBN: 9781107101883, 1107101883

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PS153.P87 A44 2017	1	BOOK	AUTOSTORE