The Puritans
The Puritans

Author: David D. Hall

Publisher: Princeton University Press

Published: 2021-04-06

Total Pages: 526

ISBN-13: 0691203377

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"Shedding critical new light on the diverse forms of Puritan belief and practice in England, Scotland, and New England, Hall provides a multifaceted account of a cultural movement that judged the Protestant reforms of Elizabeth's reign to be unfinished"--Provided by publisher.

Transgressing the Bounds
Transgressing the Bounds

Author: Louise A. Breen

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2001-02-22

Total Pages: 304

ISBN-13: 0190285974

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This study offers a new interpretation of the Puritan "Antinomian" controversy and a skillful analysis of its wider and long term social and cultural significance. Breen argues that controversy both reflected and fostered larger questions of identity that would persist in Puritan New England during the 17th century. Some issues discussed here include the existence of individualism in a society that valued conformity and the response of members of an inward-looking, localistic culture to those among them of a more "cosmopolitan" nature. Central to Breen's study is the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company of Massachusetts, an elite social club that attracted a heterogeneous yet prominent membership, and whose diversity contrasted with the social and religious ideals of the cultural majority.

The Making of an American Thinking Class
The Making of an American Thinking Class

Author: Darren Staloff

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 1998

Total Pages: 298

ISBN-13: 0195113527

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"An invigorating contribution to the scholarly literature on Puritan New England--original in perspective, forceful in argument, and graceful in presentation....By reading the sources with an uncommonly keen eye for the nuances of power, Staloff sheds new light on many heretofore slighted aspects of Massachusetts history....Old hands at Puritan studies as well as newcomers to the field will profit immensely from this insightful book."--Alden T. Vaughan, ColumbiaUniversity

The English Poetic Epitaph
The English Poetic Epitaph

Author: Joshua Scodel

Publisher: Cornell University Press

Published: 1991

Total Pages: 448

ISBN-13: 9780801424823

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In the first major study of the genre, Joshua Scodel shows how English poets have used the poetic epitaph to express their views concerning the power and limitations of poetry as a response to human mortality.