... of Literature. By Myra Jehlen. Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press. 2002. 246 pp. Cloth, $52.00; paper, $19.00. The Writing of America: Literature and Cultural Identity from the Puritans to the Present. By Geoff Ward. Cambridge, Eng.: Polity Press. 2002. vii, 235 pp. Cloth, $50.00; paper, $14.99. Myra...

...Marianne Noble Affecting Fictions: Mind, Body, and Emotion in American Literary Realism . By Jane F. Thrailkill. Cambridge: Harvard Univ. Press. 2007. 312 pp. $45.00. American Elegy: The Poetry of Mourning from the Puritans to Whitman . By Max Cavitch. Minneapolis: Univ. of Minnesota Press...

... © 2008 by Duke University Press 2008 Godly Letters: The Literature of the American Puritans . By Michael J. Colacurcio. Notre Dame, Ind.: Univ. of Notre Dame Press. 2006. xix, 650 pp. $50.00. Early American Women Critics: Performance, Religion, Race . By Gay Gibson Cima. New...

...Lisa M. Gordis Sympathetic Puritans: Calvinist Fellow Feeling in Early New England . By Van Engen Abram C. . New York : Oxford Univ. Press . 2015 . xii, 311 pp. Cloth , $74.00 ; e-book available. Inventing Eden: Primitivism, Millennialism, and the Making of New England...

...Kathleen Donegan Copyright © 2018 by Duke University Press 2018 I grew up memorializing Puritans, maybe more than most. In 1976 in Massachusetts it was not just John Hancock and Samuel Adams who were in our elementary-school classrooms but also the Puritans, those pious rebels who, as we...

...Dana Phillips Duke University Press 2006 Making Nature Sacred: Literature, Religion, and Environment in America from the Puritans to the Present . By John Gatta. New York: Oxford Univ. Press. 2004. xii, 291 pp. Paper, $24.95. Natural Life: Thoreau's Worldly Transcendentalism...

... Dying Instruction: Puritan Pedagogy in Farrell Uncle Tom’s Cabin To day I have taken my pen from the last chapter of “Uncle Tom’s Cabin.” . . . It has been the most cheering thing about the whole endeavor to me, that men like you, would...

... gaps unexplained, but individual close readings of particular texts and episodes are often terrific, further advancing the way we understand the function and force of religion in early American studies. Female Piety and the Invention of American Puritanism . By Traister Bryce . Columbus...

...Christopher Trigg Abstract This article reconsiders the legacy of American Puritanism in the context of the current controversy around “radical Islam.” The rise of Salafi jihadism has emboldened those who maintain that Islam is incompatible with Western secularity. Liberal responses to this claim...

... in the US North and Europe, offer an incisive transatlantic critique of the religious roots of American exceptionalism by attacking American Protestantism and the growing mythology of the nation’s Puritan origins. Douglass’s early speeches undercut the celebration of Puritan ancestry by Daniel Webster...

...Ivy Schweitzer Might it be more precise to think of American Puritanism as the “afterlife” of the European Reformation, living on in ways that its parent traditions might not recognize or champion? On this question, it might be helpful to recall Wendy Brown’s ( 2010 , 21) insight about “post...

... . Boston : Charles Bowen . Bercovitch Sacvan . 1978 . The American Jeremiad . Madison : Univ. of Wisconsin Press . Bercovitch Sacvan . 2011 . The Puritan Origins of the American Self . New Haven, CT : Yale Univ. Press . First published 1975. Bozeman Theodore Dwight...

...Dennis Moore Jeremiah’s Scribes: Creating Sermon Literature in Puritan New England . By Neuman Meredith Marie . Philadelphia : Univ. of Pennsylvania Press . 2013 . x, 265 pp. Cloth , $69.95 ; e-book, $69.95 . Empowering Words: Outsiders and Authorship in Early America...

...Elisabeth Ceppi Duke University Press 2006 Elisabeth Invisible Labor: Ceppi Puritan Servitude and the Demonic Possession of Elizabeth Knapp And who can tell, what ye Servant of the Lord, who was as a Dead man, almost forty...

...Rosalie Murphy Baum By Jeffrey A. Hammond. New York: Cambridge Univ. Press. 2000. xv, 264 pp.$59.95. 2002 Book Reviews The American Puritan Elegy: A Literary and Cultural Study. By Jeffrey A. Hammond. New York: Cambridge Univ. Press. 2000. xv, 264 pp. $59.95. Jeffrey Hammond speaks...

... Institutional Individualism: Conversion, Exile, and Nostalgia in Puritan New En- gland. By Michael W. Kaufmann. Middletown, Conn.: Wesleyan Univ. Press; Han- over, N.H.: University Press of New England. 1998. ix, 155 pp. Cloth, $35.00...

...Sharon Kim Duke University Press 2003 Sharon Puritan Realism: The Wide, Wide World Kim and Robinson Crusoe 6986 AMERICAN LITERATURE / 75:4 / sheet 95 of 255 Cried over by Jo March and loved by Vincent Van...

...,” it discovers a Puritan theory of grace that sought to come closer to God by escaping idolatrous thinking, on the one hand, and mechanistic cognition, on the other. Reconceiving Hooker’s preparation as a memorial style and placing that ars memoria at the center of transatlantic Puritan controversies about grace...

...Grant Shreve Since its recovery in the 1980s, Lydia Maria Child’s first novel, Hobomok (1824)—a Puritan historical romance set in Salem, Massachusetts, in the 1620s—has been read primarily in terms of how issues of race and gender operate in the novel. However, these readings ignore the fact...