Search Results - "Puritans"

Thornton Wilder and the Puritan narrative tradition by Konkle, Lincoln

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I Puritani The Puritans / by Fisher, Burton D.

“…Puritans…”
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The devil's mousetrap redemption and colonial American literature / by Munk, Linda

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Increase and multiply governing cultural reproduction in early modern England / by Glimp, David

Table of Contents: “…"Making up people" : the English Commonwealth and the writing of populations -- Defending poetic generation : Sir Philip Sidney and the aesthetics of educational reproduction -- Staging government : Shakespearean theater and the government of cultural reproduction -- The educational genesis of men : puritan reform and John Milton's Of education -- Paradisal arithmetic : Paradise Lost and the genesis of populations.…”
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On creating a usable culture Margaret Mead and the emergence of American cosmopolitanism / by Molloy, Maureen, 1949-

Table of Contents: “…The problem of American culture -- The "jungle flapper" : civilization, repression, and the homogenous society -- "Lords of an empty creation" : masculinity, puritanism, and cultural stagnation -- "Every woman deviating from the code" : cultural lag, moral contagion, and social disintegration -- "Maladjustment of a worse order" : temperament, psychosexual misidentification, and the refuge of private life -- On creating a usable culture.…”
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Strange Jeremiahs civil religion and the literary imaginations of Jonathan Edwards, Herman Melville, and W.E.B. Du Bois / by Stewart, Carole Lynn

Table of Contents: “…The beginning of the American Revolution in the conversion of Northampton. The travail of the Puritan covenant -- Original sin: human limitations and the openness of community -- God is no respecter of persons: the ordinary, lowly, and infantile nature of the revival -- The "strange revolution" and the aesthetics of grace -- The second great awakening, the national period, and Melville's American destiny. …”
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