Title Design in Puritan American literature / William J. Scheick

Published Lexington : The University Press of Kentucky, ©1992

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Description 1 online resource Contents Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Introduction; 1. The Necessity of Language; Words Like Wooden Horses William Bradford and Thomas Morton; Double-Talk Renaissance and Reformed Traditions; Concealed Verbal Artistry Richard Mather and Edward Taylor; 2. The Winding Sheet of Meditative Verse; The Wrack of Mortal Poets Anne Bradstreet's Contemplations -- Unfolding the Twisting Serpent Edward Taylor's Meditation 1.19 -- 3. Laughter and Death; All in Jest Nathaniel Ward's The Simple Cobler; Dissolving Stones Urian Oakes's Elegy on Thomas Shepard; 4. Breaking Verbal Icons Nature, Reason, and Language Jonathan Edwards in ReactionFrom Something to Nothing to Everything Edwards's Early Sermons; 5. Islands of Meaning; Eighteenth-Century Allegory or Satire? Nathan Fiske's An Allegorical Description -- The Letter Killeth Edward Bellamy's To Whom This May Come -- Notes; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; W; Y; Z Summary Puritan American writers faced a dilemma: they had an obligation to use language as a celebration of divine artistry, but they could not allow their writing to become an iconic graven image of authorial self-idolatry. In this study William Scheick explores one way in which William Bradford, Nathaniel Ward, Anne Bradstreet, Urian Oakes, Edward Taylor, and Jonathan Edwards mediated these conflicting imperatives Analysis American literature History and criticism Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 American literature History and criticism New England American literature Puritan authors History and criticism Christian literature, American History and criticism English language Rhetoric United States Geschichte 1600-1900 Puritans Intellectual life New England Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL English Print version record digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve MiAaHDL pda Subject American literature -- Puritan authors -- History and criticism American literature -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 -- History and criticism American literature -- New England -- History and criticism Christian literature, American -- History and criticism Puritans -- New England -- Intellectual life English language -- United States -- Rhetoric Rhetoric -- United States -- History LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General. RELIGION -- Christianity -- Protestant. Rhetoric American literature American literature -- Colonial period American literature -- Puritan authors Christian literature, American English language -- Rhetoric Puritans -- Intellectual life New England United States Genre/Form History Criticism, interpretation, etc. Form Electronic book ISBN 9780813164205 0813164206

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