Puritan Legacies: Paradise Lost and the New England Tradition, 1630-1890Using "Paradise Lost" as a touchstone first to the English Revolution and second to the way that revolution was transferred to America, Stavely convincingly argues that the "structure of feeling" embodied in the poem persists through three centuries ofAmerican culture. His discussion of Puritan radicalism in New England and, more importantly, his detailed case studies of Marlborough and Westborough, Massachusetts, which he investigates and understands by constant reference to Milton's great poem, display his strong gifts as both literary critic and intellectual historian. Puritan Legacies is a challenging example of the "New Historicism" we have so long needed. |
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... capitalism with ingenious and highly serviceable mechanisms of self - deception . Insofar as New England Puritanism means anything beyond sexual repression in popular his- torical consciousness , it thus conjures up the sequence John ...
... capitalism with ingenious and highly serviceable mechanisms of self - deception . Insofar as New England Puritanism means anything beyond sexual repression in popular his- torical consciousness , it thus conjures up the sequence John ...
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... capitalist economics . Worker rage during the strike was directed at those bosses who allowed themselves to be per ... capitalism , which Howe by his record of unbroken expansion and success also represented , was what was primarily on ...
... capitalist economics . Worker rage during the strike was directed at those bosses who allowed themselves to be per ... capitalism , which Howe by his record of unbroken expansion and success also represented , was what was primarily on ...
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... capitalism much more thoroughly than is indicated simply by the fact that he invariably sided against labor and with capital whenever a real choice had to be made . Not only were his views those of a proponent of the industrial capitalist ...
... capitalism much more thoroughly than is indicated simply by the fact that he invariably sided against labor and with capital whenever a real choice had to be made . Not only were his views those of a proponent of the industrial capitalist ...
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Puritan Legacies: Paradise Lost and the New England Tradition, 1630-1890 Keith W. Stavely No preview available - 1990 |
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