A concluding chapter examines the significance of the corpus of Catholic American writing in the years 1940 to 1980, considering it parallel in substance to the body of Jewish American literature of the same period.

" "This book is a tightly focused study of an important aspect of Puritan American writers' use of language by one of the leading scholars in the field of early American literature.

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact.

In Humor and Revelation in American Literature, Pascal Covici, Jr., traces this perspective from its early presence to the humorous tradition in America that has been related to the Old Southwest, showing how American Puritan thought was ...

Examines the variety of ways in which early Protestants responded to material shapes: icons, acoustic shapes of speech, material objects and the physical shapes of humans.

Designed for a general audience as an introduction to Edwards, Puritan thought, & 18th century philosophy in America.

Provides in-depth analysis of the life, works, career, and critical importance of Edward Taylor.

"Issued in honor of the Rev. Dr. Adoniram Judson, missionary to Burma. Contains original contributions by S. W. Cone, S. D. Phelps, L. H. Sigourney, W. B. Tappan, and others, as well as selections."--Cf. Thompson, R. Annuals, p. 131.

Demonstrating and explicating a Calvinist theology of sympathy in seventeenth-century New England, the book reveals the religious history of a concept that has previously been associated with more secular roots.