Interpretation of Material Shapes in Puritanism - A Study of Rhetoric, Prejudice, and Violence

Klappentext The Interpretation of Material Shapes in Puritanism overturns many of our long-held assumptions about the social and artistic values of Protestantism. Zusammenfassung The Interpretation of Material Shapes in Puritanism overturns many of our long-held assumptions about the social and artistic values of Protestantism. Dr Ann Kibbey offers a detailed analysis of the rhetoric of the Puritan plain style! centring her argument on the influential preacher John Cotton. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Introductory: figures of prejudice; 2. The referential imperative; 3. Iconoclastic materialism; 4. Verbal images, history and marriage; 5. 1637: the Pequot War and the antinomian controversy; 6. Apocalyptic hierarchy; Appendix; Notes; Index.

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• Authors: Kibbey Ann, Ann Kibbey, Ann M. Kibbey
• Assisted by: Albert Gelpi (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 27.06.1986
• EAN: 9780521265096
• ISBN: 978-0-521-26509-6
• No. of pages: 216
• Series: Cambridge Medieval Textbooks (
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies