Sympathetic Puritans - Calvinist Fellow Feeling in Early New England

Sympathetic Puritans places sympathy at the heart of Puritanism and challenges the literary history of sentimentalism. It argues that a Calvinist theology of fellow feeling shaped the politics, religion, rhetoric, and literature of seventeenth-century New England, influencing the development of American culture.

List of contents

• Acknowledgments


• Introduction


• Chapter 1: Puritan Sympathy


• Chapter 2: Love of the Brethren and the Antinomian Controversy


• Chapter 3: Sympathy, Persuasion, and Seduction


• Chapter 4: Transatlantic Relations and the Rhetoric of Sympathy


• Chapter 5: Sympathy, Sincerity, and Sentimental Technique


• Chapter 6: Bewildered Sympathy


• Conclusion: Transformation and Continuity at the End of the Century


• Notes


• Index

About the author

Abram C. Van Engen is Assistant Professor of English at Washington University in St. Louis.

Summary

Sympathetic Puritans places sympathy at the heart of Puritanism and challenges the literary history of sentimentalism. It argues that a Calvinist theology of fellow feeling shaped the politics, religion, rhetoric, and literature of seventeenth-century New England, influencing the development of American culture.

Additional text

An immensely rewarding book that alters our understanding of a canonical text and fills out the intellectual history of early New England.

Product details

• Authors: Abram Van Engen, Abram Van Engen, Abram (Assistant Professor of English Van Engen, Van Engen Abram
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 14.05.2015
• EAN: 9780199379637
• ISBN: 978-0-19-937963-7
• No. of pages: 328
• Series: Religion in America
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Christianity; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, HISTORY / United States / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Islamic Studies, RELIGION / Christianity / Presbyterian, RELIGION / Christianity / Calvinist, Social and cultural history, History of the Americas, Religious groups: social & cultural aspects, Northeastern & North Atlantic States, Social groups: religious groups and communities, US Northeast, Calvinist, Reformed & Presbyterian Churches, Calvinist, Reformed and Presbyterian Churches