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1 online resource (334 pages) |
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Wiley-Blackwell Manifestos Ser |
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Wiley-Blackwell Manifestos Ser
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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 |
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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 |
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11: Balm for the Prodigal: Marilynne Robinson's Gilead12: A Fable for Critics: Autobiographical Epilogue; Index |
| Summary |
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 prominence of New England's literary tradition within the canon of American literatureTraces the impact of the literature of New England on the development of spirituality, community, and culture in AmericaIncludes in-depth studies of work from auth |
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Print version record |
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New, Elisa
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| SUBJECT |
New, Elisa fast |
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American literature -- New England -- History and criticism
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Literature and society -- United States -- History
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College teachers -- Biography
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American literature
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College teachers
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Intellectual life
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Literature
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Literature and society
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New England -- In literature
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New England -- Intellectual life.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85091273
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United States -- Intellectual life.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140363
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New England
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United States
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Biographies
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781118854563 |
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111885456X |
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9781118854587 |
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1118854586 |
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