New New England Beyond Criticism

In Defense of America s First Literature
1. Auflage 2014
ISBN: 978-1-118-85456-3
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 336 Seiten, E-Book

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Timely and beautifully written, New England BeyondCriticism provides a passionate defense of the importance ofthe literature of New England to the American literary canon, andits impact on the development of spirituality, community, andculture in America.
* An exploration and defense of the prominence of NewEngland's literary tradition within the canon of Americanliterature
* Traces the impact of the literature of New England on thedevelopment of spirituality, community, and culture in America
* Includes in-depth studies of work from authors and poets suchas William Bradford, Emily Dickinson, Robert Frost, Henry DavidThoreau, Susan Howe, and Marilynne Robinson
* Examines the place and impression of New England literature inthe nation's intellectual history and the lives of itsreaders

Autoren/Hrsg.

New, Elisa

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments vii
1 Introduction: New England Beyond Criticism 1
Part I Excitations: Protestant Ups and Downs 21
2 Variety as Religious Experience: Four Case Studies: Dickinson,Edwards, Taylor, and Cotton 23
3 The Popularity of Doom: From Wigglesworth, Poe, and Stowethrough The Da Vinci Code 47
4 "I Take--No Less than Skies--":Dickinson's Flights 75
Part II Congregations: Rites of Assembly 103
5 Lost in the Woods Again: Coming Home to Wilderness inBradford, Thoreau, Frost, and Bishop 105
6 Growing Up a Goodman: Hawthorne's Way 140
7 "Shall Not Perish from the Earth": The Counting ofSouls in Jewett, Du Bois, E.A. Robinson, and Frost 160
8 Disinheriting New England: Robert Lowell's Reformations201
Part III Matriculations: In Academic Terms 225
9 Winter at the Corner of Quincy and Harvard: The Brothers James227
10 Upon a Peak in Beinecke: The Beauty of the Book in the Poetryof Susan Howe 235
11 Balm for the Prodigal: Marilynne Robinson's Gilead265
12 A Fable for Critics: Autobiographical Epilogue 279
Index 308

Über Autor(innen)

Elisa New is Powell M. Cabot Professor of AmericanLiterature and Language at Harvard University. She is the author ofThe Regenerate Lyric: Theology and Innovation in AmericanPoetry (2009), Jacob's Cane: A Jewish Family'sJourney From the Four Lands of Lithuania to the Ports of London andBaltimore (2009 and 2011), andThe Lines Eye: PoeticExperience, American Sight (1999).