Doctrine and Difference - Essays in the Literature of New England

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, in Colacurcio's view, attempted 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, Doctrine and Difference shows how these works are in many ways the literary remnants of Puritanism.

List of contents

Americanist Criticism; Chapter 1 Christ’s Reply, Saint’s Assurance; Chapter 2 The Example of Edwards; Chapter 3 “The Corn and the Wine”; Chapter 4 Pleasing God; Chapter 5 Footsteps of Ann Hutchinson; Chapter 6 “The Woman’s Own Choice”; Chapter 7 Puritans in Spite;

About the author

Michael J. Colacurcio

Summary

Capturing the violence of repression and the disease of embattled survival, this book shows how the works of Hawthorne, Melville and Dickinson are in many ways the literary remnants of Puritanism.

Product details

• Authors: Michael J. Colacurcio, Colacurcio Michael J.
• Publisher: Taylor and Francis
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 10.12.1996
• EAN: 9780415912389
• ISBN: 978-0-415-91238-9
• No. of pages: 310
• Weight: 453 g
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; USA, LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 19th Century, American English, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900, United States of America, USA