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New England Beyond Criticism : In Defense of Americas First Literature.
Timely and beautifully written, New England Beyond Criticism provides a passionate defense of the importance of the literature of New England to the American literary canon, and its impact on the development of spirituality, community, and culture in America. An exploration and defense of the promin...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Hoboken :
Wiley,
2014.
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| Colección: | Wiley-Blackwell Manifestos Ser.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Praise for New England Beyond Criticism; Title page; Copyright page; Contents; Acknowledgments; 1: Introduction: New England Beyond Criticism; Part I: Excitations: Protestant Ups and Downs; 2: Variety as Religious Experience: Four Case Studies: Dickinson, Edwards, Taylor, and Cotton; 3: The Popularity of Doom: From Wigglesworth, Poe, and Stowe through The Da Vinci Code; 4: "I Take-No Less than Skies-": Dickinson's Flights; Part II: Congregations: Rites of Assembly; 5: Lost in the Woods Again: Coming Home to Wilderness in Bradford, Thoreau, Frost, and Bishop.
- 1. Scholar in the Wilderness2. "Of Plimouth Plantation"; 3. "The Village"; 4. "Desert Places"; 5. "Of Plimouth Plantation" and "Brazil, January 1, 1502"; 6. "The Moose"; 6: Growing Up a Goodman: Hawthorne's Way; 7: "Shall Not Perish from the Earth": The Counting of Souls in Jewett, Du Bois, E.A. Robinson, and Frost; 8: Disinheriting New England: Robert Lowell's Reformations; Part III: Matriculations: In Academic Terms; 9: Winter at the Corner of Quincy and Harvard: The Brothers James; 10: Upon a Peak in Beinecke: The Beauty of the Book in the Poetry of Susan Howe.
- 11: Balm for the Prodigal: Marilynne Robinson's Gilead12: A Fable for Critics: Autobiographical Epilogue; Index.