The Puritan-provincial vision : Scottish and American literature in the nineteenth century /

The Puritan-provincial vision : Scottish and American literature in the nineteenth century /

This book suggests an interpretation of the characteristic qualities of Scottish and American literatures. Considering the self-consciously different stance which sets them apart from English literature, the author develops the constituents of the 'puritan-provincial vision': a particular...

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Main Author: Manning, Susan, 1953-2013 (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1990.
Series:Cambridge studies in American literature and culture ; 41.
Subjects:
Scottish literature > 19th century > History and criticism.
English literature > Scottish authors > History and criticism.
American literature > 19th century > History and criticism.
Comparative literature > Scottish and American.
Comparative literature > American and Scottish.
Puritan movements in literature.
Regionalism in literature.
Online Access:CONNECT
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Calvinism and the puritan mind
  • 2. After Armageddon Jonathan Edwards and David Hume
  • 3. From puritanism to provincialism
  • 4. The pursuit of the double
  • 5. Spectators, spies and spectacles: the observer's stance
  • 6. 'Is anything central?'

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