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Godly letters : the literature of the American Puritans
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- Creator
- Michael J. Colacurcio
- Format
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- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Notre Dame, Ind. : University of Notre Dame Press, [2006]
- ©2006
- Physical Details
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- xix, 650 pages ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 0268159246, 026815922X, 0268159238, 9780268022907, 9780268159238, 9780268159245, 9780268159221, 0268022909
- OCLC
- ocn648493858, ocm68132919
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 576-633) and index.
- A costly Canaan : Morton and the margins of American literature -- Advancing the gospel, dividing the church : design and vision in Bradford's Plymouth -- "A strange poise of spirit" : the life and deaths of Thomas Shepard -- The charter and the "model" : writing Winthrop's holy state -- Doubt's venture, faith's call : Shepard's activist Calvinism -- Regeneration through violence : Hooker and the morale of preparation -- Primitive comfort : the spiritual witness of John Cotton -- Wives and lovers : reaction and the gender of Puritanism -- Marching orders : Johnson's summary syntax -- Government in exile : Williams and the decay of dialogue -- Epilogue: "God's altar" : the fall to poetry
Subjects
- American literature -- Puritan authors -- History and criticism.
- American literature -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 -- History and criticism.
- American literature -- New England -- History and criticism.
- Christian literature, American -- History and criticism.
- Puritans -- New England -- Intellectual life.