The Puritan Imagination

Author : Kenyon Gradert
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2020-04-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9780226694023

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Puritan Spirits in the Abolitionist Imagination by Kenyon Gradert Pdf

The Puritans of popular memory are dour figures, characterized by humorless toil at best and witch trials at worst. “Puritan” is an insult reserved for prudes, prigs, or oppressors. Antebellum American abolitionists, however, would be shocked to hear this. They fervently embraced the idea that Puritans were in fact pioneers of revolutionary dissent and invoked their name and ideas as part of their antislavery crusade. Puritan Spirits in the Abolitionist Imagination reveals how the leaders of the nineteenth-century abolitionist movement—from landmark figures like Ralph Waldo Emerson to scores of lesser-known writers and orators—drew upon the Puritan tradition to shape their politics and personae. In a striking instance of selective memory, reimagined aspects of Puritan history proved to be potent catalysts for abolitionist minds. Black writers lauded slave rebels as new Puritan soldiers, female antislavery militias in Kansas were cast as modern Pilgrims, and a direct lineage of radical democracy was traced from these early New Englanders through the American and French Revolutions to the abolitionist movement, deemed a “Second Reformation” by some. Kenyon Gradert recovers a striking influence on abolitionism and recasts our understanding of puritanism, often seen as a strictly conservative ideology, averse to the worldly rebellion demanded by abolitionists.

Author : Sacvan Bercovitch
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1974-06-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0521098416

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American Puritan Imagination by Sacvan Bercovitch Pdf

Over the last two decades a major revaluation has been taking place of the colonial Puritan imagination. With the growth of interest in early American literature has come increasing recognition of its quality and a better understanding of its place in the continuity of American culture. However, much of the best critical work to date has been published as articles in scholarly journals, and in bringing together for the first time the best work in this growing field the present anthology fills a number of important needs. It is at once a valuabale and accessible introduction for students, a summing-up of a new enterprise, and a guide for further studies.

Author : Sacvan Bercovitch
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : American literature
ISBN : OCLC:24565664

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The American Puritan Imagination by Sacvan Bercovitch Pdf

Author : Todd D. Baucum
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 163 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2022-07-29
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781666735451

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The Puritan Imagination by Todd D. Baucum Pdf

This book seeks to add a needed introduction to a way of meditation used among early modern English Protestants, influenced by Bishop Joseph Hall. Furthermore, the major role that Hall had in his Arte of Divine Mediation on late-seventeenth-century Protestant spirituality went beyond the practice of meditation and established a positive claim on the role of the imagination in shaping souls, well into the modern period. Within this context, the questions related to ancient understandings of faith and the interrelationship of divine revelation are discussed with fresh insights for our own times. If a revival of interest emerges again in Hall's work, it would be a compelling and fresh impetus to reclaim the broken imagination evident in many parts of the Western Church.

Author : John Stachniewski
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : UOM:39015022008117

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The Persecutory Imagination by John Stachniewski Pdf

Innumerable men and women in the late sixteenth and seventeenth centuries were gripped by the anxiety, often conviction, that they were doomed to go to hell. This condition of mind was commonly enmeshed with such circumstances as parental severity, social exclusion, and economic decline, which seemed to give cogency to a Calvinist theology specializing in the idea of rejection. This book investigates how a menacing discourse compounding theology and social experience constructs subjectivity and shapes texts. Looking at a variety of sources, including puritan autobiographies and works by Bunyan, Burton, Donne, Marlowe, and Milton the book challenges both the assumption of authorial autonomy and the emollience toward protestant culture that have informed most literary studies of the period.

Author : Nan Goodman
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : History
ISBN : 9780190642822

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The Puritan Cosmopolis by Nan Goodman Pdf

Prologue: The literary cosmopolis and its legal past -- The law of nations and the sources of the cosmopolis -- The cosmopolitan covenant -- The manufactured millennium -- Evidentiary cosmopolitanism -- Cosmopolitan communication and the discourse of pietism -- Epilogue: The law of the cosmopolis and its literary past

Author : Todd D. Baucum
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 149 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2022-07-29
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781666792553

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The Puritan Imagination by Todd D. Baucum Pdf

This book seeks to add a needed introduction to a way of meditation used among early modern English Protestants, influenced by Bishop Joseph Hall. Furthermore, the major role that Hall had in his Arte of Divine Mediation on late-seventeenth-century Protestant spirituality went beyond the practice of meditation and established a positive claim on the role of the imagination in shaping souls, well into the modern period. Within this context, the questions related to ancient understandings of faith and the interrelationship of divine revelation are discussed with fresh insights for our own times. If a revival of interest emerges again in Hall's work, it would be a compelling and fresh impetus to reclaim the broken imagination evident in many parts of the Western Church.

Author : Gary Scott Smith
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2011-06-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0199830703

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Heaven in the American Imagination by Gary Scott Smith Pdf

Does heaven exist? If so, what is it like? And how does one get in? Throughout history, painters, poets, philosophers, pastors, and many ordinary people have pondered these questions. Perhaps no other topic captures the popular imagination quite like heaven. Gary Scott Smith examines how Americans from the Puritans to the present have imagined heaven. He argues that whether Americans have perceived heaven as reality or fantasy, as God's home or a human invention, as a source of inspiration and comfort or an opiate that distracts from earthly life, or as a place of worship or a perpetual playground has varied largely according to the spirit of the age. In the colonial era, conceptions of heaven focused primarily on the glory of God. For the Victorians, heaven was a warm, comfortable home where people would live forever with their family and friends. Today, heaven is often less distinctively Christian and more of a celestial entertainment center or a paradise where everyone can reach his full potential. Drawing on an astounding array of sources, including works of art, music, sociology, psychology, folklore, liturgy, sermons, poetry, fiction, jokes, and devotional books, Smith paints a sweeping, provocative portrait of what Americans-from Jonathan Edwards to Mitch Albom-have thought about heaven.

Author : Michael Schuldiner
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 167 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1992-12-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0773492232

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Sacvan Bercovitch and the Puritan American Imagination by Michael Schuldiner Pdf

An interdisciplinary annual that addresses spiritual concerns that existed in Puritan America. Essays about American Puritans and Puritanism vis-a-vis other forms of Protestantism in Puritan America are welcome, as are discussions of the persistence of Puritan America beyond the 18th-century, or the influence of Puritan America on later generations. Submissions may focus on history, theology, literature, material culture or music of Puritan America, but analysis or interpretation should be responsive to a religious context.

Author : Sacvan Bercovitch
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1975-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0300021178

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The Puritan Origins of the American Self by Sacvan Bercovitch Pdf

Errata slip inserted. Includes bibliographical references and index.

Author : Andrew Delbanco,John Stauffer,Manisha Sinha,Darryl Pinckney,Wilfred M McClay
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2012-04-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9780674064904

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The Abolitionist Imagination by Andrew Delbanco,John Stauffer,Manisha Sinha,Darryl Pinckney,Wilfred M McClay Pdf

The abolitionists of the mid-nineteenth century have long been painted in extremes--vilified as reckless zealots who provoked the catastrophic bloodletting of the Civil War, or praised as daring and courageous reformers who hastened the end of slavery. But Andrew Delbanco sees abolitionists in a different light, as the embodiment of a driving force in American history: the recurrent impulse of an adamant minority to rid the world of outrageous evil. Delbanco imparts to the reader a sense of what it meant to be a thoughtful citizen in nineteenth-century America, appalled by slavery yet aware of the fragility of the republic and the high cost of radical action. In this light, we can better understand why the fiery vision of the "abolitionist imagination" alarmed such contemporary witnesses as Herman Melville and Nathaniel Hawthorne even as they sympathized with the cause. The story of the abolitionists thus becomes both a stirring tale of moral fervor and a cautionary tale of ideological certitude. And it raises the question of when the demand for purifying action is cogent and honorable, and when it is fanatic and irresponsible. Delbanco's work is placed in conversation with responses from literary scholars and historians. These provocative essays bring the past into urgent dialogue with the present, dissecting the power and legacies of a determined movement to bring America's reality into conformity with American ideals.

Author : Nan Goodman
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2018-02-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780190874414

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The Puritan Cosmopolis by Nan Goodman Pdf

The Puritan Cosmopolis traces a sense of kinship that emerged from within the larger realm of Puritan law and literature in late seventeenth-century New England. Nan Goodman argues that these early modern Puritans-connected to the cosmopolis in part through travel, trade, and politics-were also thinking in terms that went beyond feeling affiliated with people in remote places, or what cosmopolitan theorists call "attachment at a distance." In this way Puritan writers and readers were not simply learning about others, but also cultivating an awareness of themselves as ethically related to people all around the world. Such thought experiments originated and advanced through the law, specifically the law of nations, a precursor to international law and an inspiration for much of the imagination and literary expression of cosmopolitanism among the Puritans. The Puritan Cosmopolis shows that by internalizing the legal theories that pertained to the world writ large, the Puritans were able to experiment with concepts of extended obligation, re-conceptualize war, contemplate new ways of cultivating peace, and rewrite the very meaning of Puritan living. Through a detailed consideration of Puritan legal thought, Goodman provides an unexpected link between the Puritans, Jews, and Ottomans in the early modern world and reveals how the Puritan legal and literary past relates to present concerns about globalism and cosmopolitanism.

Author : Nan Goodman
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2018-02-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780190642839

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The Puritan Cosmopolis by Nan Goodman Pdf

The Puritan Cosmopolis traces a sense of kinship that emerged from within the larger realm of Puritan law and literature in late seventeenth-century New England. Nan Goodman argues that these early modern Puritans-connected to the cosmopolis in part through travel, trade, and politics-were also thinking in terms that went beyond feeling affiliated with people in remote places, or what cosmopolitan theorists call "attachment at a distance." In this way Puritan writers and readers were not simply learning about others, but also cultivating an awareness of themselves as ethically related to people all around the world. Such thought experiments originated and advanced through the law, specifically the law of nations, a precursor to international law and an inspiration for much of the imagination and literary expression of cosmopolitanism among the Puritans. The Puritan Cosmopolis shows that by internalizing the legal theories that pertained to the world writ large, the Puritans were able to experiment with concepts of extended obligation, re-conceptualize war, contemplate new ways of cultivating peace, and rewrite the very meaning of Puritan living. Through a detailed consideration of Puritan legal thought, Goodman provides an unexpected link between the Puritans, Jews, and Ottomans in the early modern world and reveals how the Puritan legal and literary past relates to present concerns about globalism and cosmopolitanism.

Author : William A. Dyrness
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2004-06-10
Category : Art
ISBN : 0521540739

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Reformed Theology and Visual Culture by William A. Dyrness Pdf

William Dyrness examines how particular theological themes of Reformed Protestants impacted on their surrounding visual culture.

Author : Joseph A. Conforti
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2003-01-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9780807875063

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Imagining New England by Joseph A. Conforti Pdf

Say "New England" and you likely conjure up an image in the mind of your listener: the snowy woods or stone wall of a Robert Frost poem, perhaps, or that quintessential icon of the region--the idyllic white village. Such images remind us that, as Joseph Conforti notes, a region is not just a territory on the ground. It is also a place in the imagination. This ambitious work investigates New England as a cultural invention, tracing the region's changing identity across more than three centuries. Incorporating insights from history, literature, art, material culture, and geography, it shows how succeeding generations of New Englanders created and broadcast a powerful collective identity for their region through narratives about its past. Whether these stories were told in the writings of Frost or Harriet Beecher Stowe, enacted in historical pageants or at colonial revival museums, or conveyed in the pages of a geography textbook or Yankee magazine, New Englanders used them to sustain their identity, revising them as needed to respond to the shifting regional landscape.