This book reconsiders the role of seventeenth-century Puritanism in the creation of the United States and its consequent cultural and literary histories.
This book reconsiders the role of seventeenth-century Puritanism in the creation of the United States and its consequent cultural and literary histories.
1. Introduction: the new Puritan studies Bryce Traister; Part I. Unexpected Puritans: 2. Sovereignty and grace: Hobbes and the Puritans Paul Downes; 3. Sabbatai Sevi and the Ottoman Jews in Increase Mather's The Mystery of Israel's Salvation Nan Goodman; 4. Benjamin Colman, laughter, and Church membership in late seventeenth- and early eighteenth-century Massachusetts Michael Schuldiner; 5. A pre-millennial portrait during the revocation of the Massachusetts Charter Linda M. Johnson; Part II. Puritanism's Others: 6. Imperial translations: new world missionary linguistics, indigenous interpreters, and universal languages in the early modern era Allison Margaret Bigelow; 7. Native poetics in Edward Johnson's Wonder-Working Providence of Sions Saviour in New England Betty Booth Donohue; 8. Pregnancy and anxiety: medicine, religion, and the occult in Cotton Mather's The Angel of Bethesda Brice Peterson; 9. Monuments of grace and spectacles of terror: Cotton Mather and the case of William Fly Jason M. Payton; Part III. Puritan Afterlives: 10. Puritan acts and monuments Jonathan Beecher Field; 11. Toward digital Puritan studies: iconoclasm, child mortality, and patterns of mourning in the Farber Gravestone Collection Harry Brown; 12. What do we know about the New England Puritans, and when did we know it? Twenty-first century reconsiderations of William Bradford and John Winthrop Michael Ditmore; 13. Claiming the high ground: Catholics, Protestants, and the City on a Hill Abram C. Van Engen; 14. Afterword: '... and American literature' Bryce Traister; Select bibliography; Index.
1. Introduction: the new Puritan studies Bryce Traister; Part I. Unexpected Puritans: 2. Sovereignty and grace: Hobbes and the Puritans Paul Downes; 3. Sabbatai Sevi and the Ottoman Jews in Increase Mather's The Mystery of Israel's Salvation Nan Goodman; 4. Benjamin Colman, laughter, and Church membership in late seventeenth- and early eighteenth-century Massachusetts Michael Schuldiner; 5. A pre-millennial portrait during the revocation of the Massachusetts Charter Linda M. Johnson; Part II. Puritanism's Others: 6. Imperial translations: new world missionary linguistics, indigenous interpreters, and universal languages in the early modern era Allison Margaret Bigelow; 7. Native poetics in Edward Johnson's Wonder-Working Providence of Sions Saviour in New England Betty Booth Donohue; 8. Pregnancy and anxiety: medicine, religion, and the occult in Cotton Mather's The Angel of Bethesda Brice Peterson; 9. Monuments of grace and spectacles of terror: Cotton Mather and the case of William Fly Jason M. Payton; Part III. Puritan Afterlives: 10. Puritan acts and monuments Jonathan Beecher Field; 11. Toward digital Puritan studies: iconoclasm, child mortality, and patterns of mourning in the Farber Gravestone Collection Harry Brown; 12. What do we know about the New England Puritans, and when did we know it? Twenty-first century reconsiderations of William Bradford and John Winthrop Michael Ditmore; 13. Claiming the high ground: Catholics, Protestants, and the City on a Hill Abram C. Van Engen; 14. Afterword: '... and American literature' Bryce Traister; Select bibliography; Index.
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