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Author:   Bryce Traister (University of British Columbia, Vancouver)
Publisher:   Cambridge University Press
Imprint:   Cambridge University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.80cm , Height: 1.90cm , Length: 23.70cm
Weight:   0.500kg
ISBN:  

9781107101883

ISBN 10:   1107101883
Pages:   254
Publication Date:   07 September 2017
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

1. Introduction: the new Puritan studies Bryce Traister; Part I. Unexpected Puritans: 2. Sovereignty and grace: Hobbes and the Puritans Paul Downes; 3. Sabbatai Sevi and the Ottoman Jews in Increase Mather's The Mystery of Israel's Salvation Nan Goodman; 4. Benjamin Colman, laughter, and Church membership in late seventeenth- and early eighteenth-century Massachusetts Michael Schuldiner; 5. A pre-millennial portrait during the revocation of the Massachusetts Charter Linda M. Johnson; Part II. Puritanism's Others: 6. Imperial translations: new world missionary linguistics, indigenous interpreters, and universal languages in the early modern era Allison Margaret Bigelow; 7. Native poetics in Edward Johnson's Wonder-Working Providence of Sions Saviour in New England Betty Booth Donohue; 8. Pregnancy and anxiety: medicine, religion, and the occult in Cotton Mather's The Angel of Bethesda Brice Peterson; 9. Monuments of grace and spectacles of terror: Cotton Mather and the case of William Fly Jason M. Payton; Part III. Puritan Afterlives: 10. Puritan acts and monuments Jonathan Beecher Field; 11. Toward digital Puritan studies: iconoclasm, child mortality, and patterns of mourning in the Farber Gravestone Collection Harry Brown; 12. What do we know about the New England Puritans, and when did we know it? Twenty-first century reconsiderations of William Bradford and John Winthrop Michael Ditmore; 13. Claiming the high ground: Catholics, Protestants, and the City on a Hill Abram C. Van Engen; 14. Afterword: '… and American literature' Bryce Traister; Select bibliography; Index.

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'This book is valuable to any student or scholar of early American, Puritan, and/or American studies wanting a good overview of the changes to these fields in the last quarter-century. And I recommend it as an example of exciting scholarship that demonstrates new habits of research and reading.' Andrea Knutson, American Literary History 'This book is valuable to any student or scholar of early American, Puritan, and/or American studies wanting a good overview of the changes to these fields in the last quarter-century. And I recommend it as an example of exciting scholarship that demonstrates new habits of research and reading.' Andrea Knutson, American Literary History

Author Information

Bryce Traister is a Professor of English and American Studies at University of Western Ontario. Born in Southern California, he holds a Ph.D. in English from University of California, Berkeley. He has published widely on American literary studies and methodology. He is the author of Female Piety and the Invention of American Puritanism (2016) and is a past President of the Canadian Association of American Studies.

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