Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : Salem and the Selling of American Selfhood
  • The What That's in a Name : Settling On an American Puritanism
  • Hawthorne, Gaddis, and Models of American Identity
  • Alien Abduction as Captivity Nonnarrative in Slaughterhouse-Five
  • Thomas Pynchon, the Sloth of Salvation, and Becoming Converted
  • Rereading Puritan Spiritual Autobiography in Gilead
  • Types of Exceptionalism : Colson Whitehead, Ronald Reagan, John Kennedy, Paul Auster
  • America before Puritanism : or, Toni Morrison's Decentered English Origin
  • Conclusion : Tituba, Hopefully, Unknowable.