Godly Letters: The Literature of the American Puritans - Couverture rigide

Colacurcio, Michael J.

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0268022909 ISBN 13 : 9780268022907

Editeur : University of Notre Dame Press, 2006

Synopsis

In Godly Letters, Michael J. Colacurcio analyzes a treasury of works written by the first generation of seventeenth-century American Puritans. Arguing that insufficient scrutiny has been given this important oeuvre, he calls for a reevaluation of the imaginative and creative qualities of America's early literature of inspired ecclesiological experiment, one that focuses on the quality of the works as well as the demanding theology they express.

Colacurcio gives a detailed, richly contextualized account of the meaning of these "godly letters" in rhetorical, theological, and political terms. From his close readings of the major texts by the first generation of Puritans-including William Bradford, Thomas Hooker, Edward Johnson, John Winthrop, Thomas Shepard, and John Cotton-he expertly illuminates qualities other studies have often overlooked. In his words, close study of the literature yields work "comprehensive, circumspect, determined subtle, energetic, relentlessly intellectual, playful in spite of their cultural prohibitions, in spite of themselves, even, they are in every way remarkable products of a culture that . . . assigned an extraordinarily high place to the life of words." Magisterial in sweep, Godly Letters is likely to stand as the definitive work on the Puritan literary achievement.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Michael J. Colacurcio is Distinguished Professor of English at the University of California, Los Angeles.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University of Notre Dame Press
• Date d'édition: 2006
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0268022909
• ISBN 13: 9780268022907
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 672
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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