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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... Reason , is free , and reason he made right , But bid her still beware , and still erect , Lest by some fair appearing good surprised She dictate false , and misinform the will To do what God expressly hath forbid . Not then mistrust ...
... Reason , is free , and reason he made right , But bid her still beware , and still erect , Lest by some fair appearing good surprised She dictate false , and misinform the will To do what God expressly hath forbid . Not then mistrust ...
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... reason itself and emotion itself that he discerns in Puritanism , not one between two sets of ideas , each of which devised its own methods of adjudicating the relations between reason and emotion . Nor is this a mere quirk of this ...
... reason itself and emotion itself that he discerns in Puritanism , not one between two sets of ideas , each of which devised its own methods of adjudicating the relations between reason and emotion . Nor is this a mere quirk of this ...
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... Reasons are these . Besides that , when I am spent with the foregoing Services , it is too much to expect me to repeat over them again . Besides that , such a custom indulged would involve us in great irregularity and Difficulty , but ...
... Reasons are these . Besides that , when I am spent with the foregoing Services , it is too much to expect me to repeat over them again . Besides that , such a custom indulged would involve us in great irregularity and Difficulty , but ...
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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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