Doctrine and Difference
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A01=Michael J. Colacurcio
American Protestant thought
antebellum American literature
Antic Ipated
antinomian
Antinomian Controversy
Author_Michael J. Colacurcio
Category=DSBF
Chapter Iii
colonial religious history
controversy
Discov Ery
Drawn Back
Early American Literature
Ens Entium
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Evo Lution
GEORGE HERBERT
Gods Determinations
Hawthorne's Romance
Hawthorne's View
Hawthorne’s Romance
Hawthorne’s View
hester
Hester Prynne
Human Condi Tion
John Cotton
letter
Lord's Days
lords
Lord’s Days
Magnalia Christi Americana
Man's Moral Nature
Man’s Moral Nature
Mid Atlantic
miller
Minister's Black Veil
Minister’s Black Veil
moral philosophy in literature
Mur Muring
New England cultural studies
perry
prynne
Puritan literary influence
Puritanism and literary development
scarlet
Scarlet Letter
supper
Tem Porary
Winthrop's Journal
Winthrop’s Journal
Young Goodman Brown
Product details
- ISBN 9780415912396
- Weight: 570g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 04 Dec 1996
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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The enduring power of many antebellum American texts trace their inspiration to Puritanism. From Melville's preposterous but irresponsible quarrels with God to Hawthorne's instructed yet edgy evocations of earlier New England, to Dickinson's finely turned little blasphemies. Can one imagine that such texts were written anywhere but in the latter days of Puritanism? Doctrine and Difference shows how the spirit and forms of liberalism are a necessary but by no means sufficient explanation for the flowering of literature in this period. The colonialist writers were attempting to have things their own provincial way amidst an air of rejection by the cosmopolitan literary establishment. Capturing the violence of repression, the energy required to meet its moral argument head on, and the disease of embattled survival, this book shows how these works are in many ways the literary remnants of Puritanism.
