New England Beyond Criticism

In Defense of Americas First Literature
1. Auflage 2014
ISBN: 978-1-118-85453-2
Verlag: Wiley

Buch, Englisch, 332 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 714 g

Reihe: Blackwell Manifestos

Timely and beautifully written, New England Beyond Criticism provides a passionate defense of the importance of the literature of New England to the American literary canon, and its impact on the development of spirituality, community, and culture in America.
* An exploration and defense of the prominence of New England's literary tradition within the canon of American literature
* Traces the impact of the literature of New England on the development of spirituality, community, and culture in America
* Includes in-depth studies of work from authors and poets such as William Bradford, Emily Dickinson, Robert Frost, Henry David Thoreau, Susan Howe, and Marilynne Robinson
* Examines the place and impression of New England literature in the nation's intellectual history and the lives of its readers

Autoren/Hrsg.

New, Elisa

Fachgebiete

• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Kulturwissenschaften
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturgeschichte und Literaturkritik
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur Amerikanische Literatur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments vii

1 Introduction: New England Beyond Criticism 1

Part I Excitations: Protestant Ups and Downs 21

2 Variety as Religious Experience: Four Case Studies: Dickinson, Edwards, Taylor, and Cotton 23

3 The Popularity of Doom: From Wigglesworth, Poe, and Stowe through The Da Vinci Code 47

4 "I Take--No Less than Skies--": Dickinson's Flights 75

Part II Congregations: Rites of Assembly 103

5 Lost in the Woods Again: Coming Home to Wilderness in Bradford, Thoreau, Frost, and Bishop 105

6 Growing Up a Goodman: Hawthorne's Way 140

7 "Shall Not Perish from the Earth": The Counting of Souls in Jewett, Du Bois, E.A. Robinson, and Frost 160

8 Disinheriting New England: Robert Lowell's Reformations 201

Part III Matriculations: In Academic Terms 225

9 Winter at the Corner of Quincy and Harvard: The Brothers James 227

10 Upon a Peak in Beinecke: The Beauty of the Book in the Poetry of Susan Howe 235

11 Balm for the Prodigal: Marilynne Robinson's Gilead 265

12 A Fable for Critics: Autobiographical Epilogue 279

Index 308

Über Autor(innen)

Elisa New is Powell M. Cabot Professor of American Literature and Language at Harvard University. She is the author of The Regenerate Lyric: Theology and Innovation in American Poetry (2009), Jacob's Cane: A Jewish Family's Journey From the Four Lands of Lithuania to the Ports of London and Baltimore (2009 and 2011), andThe Lines Eye: Poetic Experience, American Sight (1999).