... 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...

...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...

... 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...

... 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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

... ideal in a less encumbered setting. These religious migrants have become known as the Puritans, a group of people loosely defined through a shared and often zealous adherence to the reformed theological tradition, largely following the work of John Calvin. Beginning in the sixteenth century, the Puritan...

...—including (and especially) many of society’s most marginalized members. Ultimately, then, Traister reads the invention of “American Puritanism”—a category made possible, he asserts, only from a putatively secular position—as the culmination of Puritanism’s own in-built secular strains, which were...

... invaded the Inca Empire, they destroyed most of the quipu and strove to eradicate this far-reaching system as evidence of civilization. Puritan memory work, understood much more fully now in its transatlantic terms and engagements, becomes another thing again when placed in a hemispheric setting, where...

... 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...

...Kathleen Donegan By the time I got to high school, where The Scarlet Letter was our Great Gatsby , the puritan past was fixed in my memory. There seemed no different way to tell it. It didn’t move, and it didn’t move me. I was tired of them, these punitive men. But many years later, I read...

...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...

...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...

... © 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...

...,” 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...

...Molly Farrell Abstract Focusing on disgust opens up critical paths that involve more expansive scopes of space and time than are possible with strictly historicist approaches to Puritan studies. This essay investigates the remarkably similar tactics for inducing disgust in narratives from the 1640s...