Godly letters : the literature of the American Puritans

Godly Letters: The Literature of the Ame

📁 Godly Letters: The Literature of the American Puritans

✍ Michael J. Colacurcio 📂 Library 📅 2006 🏛 University of Notre Dame Press 🌐 English

In Godly Letters, Michael J. Colacurcio analyzes a treasury of works written by the first generation of seventeenth-century American Puritans. Arguing that insufficient scrutiny has been given this important oeuvre, he calls for a reevaluation of the imaginative an

Godly Letters: The Literature of the Ame

📁 Godly Letters: The Literature of the American Puritans

✍ Michael J. Colacurcio 📂 Library 📅 2006 🏛 University of Notre Dame Press 🌐 English

In Godly Letters, Michael J. Colacurcio analyzes a treasury of works written by the first generation of seventeenth-century American Puritans. Arguing that insufficient scrutiny has been given this important oeuvre, he calls for a reevaluation of the imaginative an

Godly Conversation: Rediscovering the Pu

📁 Godly Conversation: Rediscovering the Puritan Practice of Conference

✍ Joanne J. Jung 📂 Library 📅 2011 🏛 Reformation Heritage Books 🌐 English

This stimulating and important study examines the gathering of the saints in informal settings, or 'conferences, ' where Scripture and sermons were discussed and 'ingested' to nurture the spiritual life. The cumulative effect of Jung's research is to put the topic of conference at the top of the lis

A History of American Puritan Literature

📁 A History of American Puritan Literature

✍ Kristina Bross, Abram Van Engen 📂 Library 📅 2020 🏛 Cambridge University Press 🌐 English

For generations, scholars have imagined American puritans as religious enthusiasts, fleeing persecution, finding refuge in Massachusetts, and founding 'America'. The puritans have been read as a product of New England and the origin of American exceptionalism. This History challenges the usual under

Image of America : Our Literature from P

📁 Image of America : Our Literature from Puritanism to the Space Age

✍ Jr. Foerster, Norman and Steadman, J.M. 📂 Library 📅 1923 🏛 University Of Notre Dame Press 🌐 English

The Puritan Origins of American Sex: Rel

📁 The Puritan Origins of American Sex: Religion, Sexuality, and National Identity in American Literature

✍ Tracy Fessenden, Nicholas F. Radel, Magdalena J. Zaborowska (eds.) 📂 Library 📅 2001 🏛 Routledge 🌐 English

From witch trials to pickaxe murderers, from brothels to convents, and from slavery to Toni Morrison’s Paradise, these essays provide fascinating and provocative insights into our sexual and religious conventions and beliefs.