Puritan Cosmopolis - The Law of Nations and the Early American Imagination

In The Puritan Cosmopolis, Nan Goodman demonstrates how the Puritans were far from an insular coterie that ignored the larger global community. Drawing on letters, diaries, political pamphlets, poetry, and other cultural materials, The Puritan Cosmopolis demonstrates how the Puritan population increasingly saw themselves as global citizens.

List of contents

• Prologue


• Chapter 1: The Law of Nations and the Sources of the Cosmopolis


• Chapter 2: The Cosmopolitan Covenant


• Chapter 3: The Manufactured Millennium


• Chapter 4: Evidentiary Cosmopolitanism


• Chapter 5: Cosmopolitan Communication and the Discourse of Pietism


• Epilogue

About the author

Nan Goodman is Arts and Sciences Professor of Distinction and Professor of English and Jewish Studies at the University of Colorado Boulder. She is the author of Banished: Common Law and the Rhetoric of Social Exclusion in Early New England (2012), and Shifting the Blame: Literature, Law, and the Theory of Accidents in Nineteenth-Century America (1998).

Summary

In The Puritan Cosmopolis, Nan Goodman demonstrates how the Puritans were far from an insular coterie that ignored the larger global community. Drawing on letters, diaries, political pamphlets, poetry, and other cultural materials, The Puritan Cosmopolis demonstrates how the Puritan population increasingly saw themselves as global citizens.

Additional text

In this compelling re-reading of the New England Puritans, Nan Goodman brilliantly ranges across seventeenth-century conceptions of international law, relations with the Ottoman empire, and theologies of history. Highlighting literary uses of the law, she offers us an engaging argument that Puritans may yet inform Americans today about the very meaning of cosmopolitanism.

Product details

• Authors: Nan Goodman, Nan (Professor of Distinction Goodman
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.06.2022
• EAN: 9780197651209
• ISBN: 978-0-19-765120-9
• No. of pages: 216
• Series: OXF STUDIES AMER LITERARY HISTORY SERIES
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; USA, Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900, HISTORY / United States / Colonial Period (1600-1775), LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / General, 18th century, c 1700 to c 1799, United States of America, USA, Early modern history: c 1450/1500 to c 1700, History of the Americas, Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800, Literary studies: c 1600 to c 1800, C 1600 To C 1700, C 1700 To C 1800