Design in Puritan American literature / William J. Scheick
- Bib ID:
- 334890
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Scheick, William J
- Description:
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- Lexington, Ky. : University Press of Kentucky, c1992
- 167 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
- ISBN:
- 0813117755 (alkaline paper)
- Full contents:
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- 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 Reaction. From 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:
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [146]-163) and index.
- Subject:
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- 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
- Copyright:
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- Creator Date of Death is Before 1955
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- Literary Dramatic Musical
- Presumed date of death of creator (latest date):
- 1734
- Published status:
- Published
- Publication date:
- 1728
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