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Sympathetic Puritans

Calvinist Fellow Feeling in Early New England

Inbunden, Engelska, 2015

AvAbram Van Engen,Washington University in St. Louis) Van Engen, Abram (Assistant Professor of English, Assistant Professor of English,Abram, Van Engen,Abram van Engen

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Revising dominant accounts of Puritanism and challenging the literary history of sentimentalism, Sympathetic Puritans argues that a Calvinist theology of sympathy shaped the politics, religion, rhetoric, and literature of early New England. Scholars have often understood and presented sentimentalism as a direct challenge to stern and stoic Puritan forebears: the standard history traces a cult of sensibility back to moral sense philosophy and the Scottish Enlightenment, not Puritan New England. In contrast, Van Engen's work unearths the pervasive presence of sympathy in a large archive of Puritan sermons, treatises, tracts, poems, journals, histories, and captivity narratives. Sympathetic Puritans also demonstrates how two types of sympathy -- the active command to fellow-feel (a duty), as well as the passive sign that could indicate salvation (a discovery) -- pervaded Puritan society and came to define the very boundaries of English culture, affecting conceptions of community, relations with Native Americans, and the development of American literature. By analyzing Puritan theology, preaching, prose, and poetry, Van Engen re-examines the Antinomian Controversy, conversion narratives, transatlantic relations, Puritan missions, Mary Rowlandson's captivity narrative -- and Puritan culture more generally -- through the lens of sympathy. Demonstrating and explicating a Calvinist theology of sympathy in seventeenth-century New England, the book reveals the religious history of a concept that has largely been associated with more secular roots.

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Utgivningsdatum2015-04-09
Mått236 x 157 x 30 mm
Vikt567 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieReligion in America
Antal sidor328
FörlagOUP USA
ISBN9780199379637

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Acknowledgments ; Introduction ; Chapter 1: Puritan Sympathy ; Chapter 2: Love of the Brethren and the Antinomian Controversy ; Chapter 3: Sympathy, Persuasion, and Seduction ; Chapter 4: Transatlantic Relations and the Rhetoric of Sympathy ; Chapter 5: Sympathy, Sincerity, and Sentimental Technique ; Chapter 6: Bewildered Sympathy ; Conclusion: Transformation and Continuity at the End of the Century ; Notes ; Index

Van Engen's gracefully written study, both original and informed, is a pleasure and a provocation. His reframing of some of early America's most studied moments requires that readers press a kind of reset button on familiar, even iconic, texts and moments. Puritan sympathy invites a reconsideration of the essential meaning and influence of Puritan sensibility not on 'America' or the 'American self,' but on reader and genre, particularly as a precursor to the novel.

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