...Henry W. Lawrence Copyright © 1934 by Duke University Press 1934 SAMUEL SEWALL, REVEALER OF PURITAN NEW ENGLAND HENRY W. LAWRENCE ON THE twenty-third day of December in the year 1714, Samuel Sewall, eminent Puritan magistrate, went to church. There is nothing in this fact, however...

...Grace Warren Landrum Copyright © 1923 by Duke University Press 1923 The Southern Puritan Grace Warren Landrum University of Richmond Fiction has emphasized the New England but generally overlooked the Southern puritans. They do not suggest spin­ ning wheels, looms, windowless houses...

...Arthur B. Ferguson Valiant Pilgrim: The Story of John Bunyan and Puritan England . By Brittain Vera . New York : The Macmillan Company , 1950 . Pp. 440 . $4.00 . Copyright © 1952 by Duke University Press 1952 Book Reviews 175 sists to the present day. Yet it seems likely...

...Theodore R. Crane Puritan Protagonist: President Thomas Clap of Yale College . By Tucker Louis Leonard . Chapel Hill : Published for the Institute of Early American History and Culture by the University of North Carolina Press , 1962 . Pp. xv , 283 . $6.00 . Copyright © 1963...

... OF CALIFORNIA, IRVINE FRANK LENTRICCHIA Puritan Influences in American Literature. Edited by Emory Elliott. Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 1979. Pp. xx, 212. $12.00. This collection of nine essays with a useful introduction is dedic­ ated to Edward H. Davidson, who was teacher or critical guide or ad­...

...Caroline Robbins The Puritan Dilemma: The Story of John Winthrop . By Morgan Edmund S. . Boston : Little, Brown and Company , 1958 . Pp. 224 . $3.50 . Copyright © 1959 by Duke University Press 1959 Book Reviews 141 working on German literature of the past twenty-five years...

...Robert H. Woody The Puritan Frontier: Town-planting in New England Colonial Development, 1630-1660 . By Haller William Jr . New York : Columbia University Press , 1951 . Pp. 119 . $2.00 . Copyright © 1953 by Duke University Press 1953 Book Reviews I5i see evidences...

...Jack P. Greene From Puritan to Yankee: Character and the Social Order in Connecticut, 1690-1765 . By Bushman Richard L. . Cambridge : Harvard University Press , 1967 . Pp. xiv , 343 . $8.95 . Copyright © 1969 by Duke University Press 1969 BOOKS From Puritan to Yankee...

...H. M. Ellis Copyright © 1918 by Duke University Press 1918 Puritanism and Conformism H. M. Ellis Professor of English in Trinity College A few years ago I aroused a storm of immediate dissent in one of my classes at the University of Texas by making the casual remark that the state of Texas...

...Edmund S. Morgan Copyright © 1949 by Duke University Press 1949 THE PURITAN S MARRIAGE WITH GOD EDMUND S. MORGAN A NTHROPOMORPHISM is a formidable word, but the phe- xjLnomenon which it designates is common enough. Man delights to create God in his own image, and every religion is tainted...

.... His book remains useful, provocative, comprehensive, and occasionally brilliant. DUKE UNIVERSITY JAMES ROLLESTON Puritans and Adventurers: Change and Persistence in Early America. By T. H. Breen. New York and Oxford: Oxford Univer­ sity Press, 1980. Pp., xviii, 270. $17.50. Judging from the frequent...

...Louis J. Budd Julian Green and the Thorn of Puritanism . By Stokes Samuel . New York : King’s Crown Press , 1955 . Pp. xiv , 155 . $3.00 . Copyright © 1956 by Duke University Press 1956 Book Reviews 403 Viola, the Duchess of New Dorp: A Biography of Viola Roseboro . By Jane...

... in a pluralist society in the United States. For these thinkers, advocating a Jewish homeland in fact followed American democratic principles, and they drew parallels with Puritan Hebraism and frontier settlement as sources for democratic equality. The dual process to “naturalize” Zionism and to “Americanize...

... of the 1630s was so successful. America's “Puritan” lettered city was never particularly Calvinist, religious, nor conservative, but emerged as an ongoing state of exception, marked by a kind of mosaic of secular, industrializing instincts under a pretense of Calvinism. This America radicalized the world...

... sensuousness, which, though not negligible, lacked the abandon characteristic of most latterday poetry, he is rather of the age of Cowper; in his general attitude toward life and nature, he is still less modern is, in­ deed, Puritan. If Bryant s attachment to nature was in large measure the result of his...

... bare statement of intention would allow. His actual project, so it would appear, is to demonstrate the extraordinary degree to which Dickinson s writing is implicated in American culture, the de­ gree to which her writing is traversed by salient features of Puritan es­ thetics and by some of the giants...

... be the basis of American society? Shall individuals be given wide latitude to act or should restrictions and order be imposed? Hawthorne presents the extremes of the opposing tendencies in The Maypole of Merry Mount, and in so doing clearly illustrates the dilemma: Should the grizzly saints [the Puritans...

.... $14.95. Professor Jennings presents his book as self-consciously re­ visionist. Thus, appropriately, on the dust jacket Dee Brown praises the book for doing for Puritan-Indian relations what his Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee did for the Plains Indians and white interac­ tion. Jennings admits he came...

... agrees is still the best general survey of seventeenthcentury Massachusetts that we have, and a salutary one for New Eng­ landers to read, despite its lack of sympathy for the puritans. Professor Morison s book is what the title suggests, a series of essays or lectures on individuals active...