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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... reality and stood apart from that reality by reshaping its components to suit his own purposes , he is able , as we shall see con- firmed in Parts Two and Three , to grasp the long - term fragmentations and deformations that modern ...
... reality and stood apart from that reality by reshaping its components to suit his own purposes , he is able , as we shall see con- firmed in Parts Two and Three , to grasp the long - term fragmentations and deformations that modern ...
Page 95
... reality are effaced in order to make reality seem to be in need of the garish rhetorical improvements Satan stands ready to provide . There is really no conflict between such an interpretation of Satan's mental functioning at this point ...
... reality are effaced in order to make reality seem to be in need of the garish rhetorical improvements Satan stands ready to provide . There is really no conflict between such an interpretation of Satan's mental functioning at this point ...
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... reality was constantly available for reassessment and reinterpretation , and in practice this meant that outer reality came to be enclosed in and obscured by ever more elabo- rate constructs of desire and aspiration . Brother Morse's ...
... reality was constantly available for reassessment and reinterpretation , and in practice this meant that outer reality came to be enclosed in and obscured by ever more elabo- rate constructs of desire and aspiration . Brother Morse's ...
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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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