Godly letters : the literature of the American Puritans / Michael J. Colacurcio.

Contents A costly Canaan : Morton and the margins of American literature -- Advancing the gospel, dividing the church : design and vision in Bradford's Plymouth -- "A strange poise of spirit" : the life and deaths of Thomas Shepard -- The charter and the "model" : writing Winthrop's holy state -- Doubt's venture, faith's call : Shepard's activist Calvinism -- Regeneration through violence : Hooker and the morale of preparation -- Primitive comfort : the spiritual witness of John Cotton -- Wives and lovers : reaction and the gender of Puritanism -- Marching orders : Johnson's summary syntax -- Government in exile : Williams and the decay of dialogue -- Epilogue: "God's altar" : the fall to poetry.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. 576-633) and index.
LCCN 2006012839
ISBN0268022909 (alk. paper)
ISBN9780268022907

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