The Puritan Literary Tradition

Inbunden, Engelska, 2024

Av Johanna Harris, Alison Searle, Australian Catholic University) Harris, Johanna (Associate Professor, Western Civilisation Program, Associate Professor, Western Civilisation Program, University of Leeds) Searle, Alison (Associate Professor of Textual Studies, School of English, Associate Professor of Textual Studies, School of English

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What is meant by the Puritan literary tradition, and when did the idea of Puritan literature, as distinct from Puritan beliefs and practices, come into being? The answer is not straightforward. This volume addresses these questions by bringing together new research on a wide range of established and emerging literary subjects that help to articulate the Puritan literary tradition, including: political polemic and the performing arts; conversion and New-World narratives; individual and corporate life-writings; histories of exile and womens history; book history and the translation and circulation of Puritan literature abroad; Puritan epistolary networks; discourses of Puritan friendship; the historiography of Puritanism defined through editing and publishing; doctrinal controversy; and the history of emotions. This essay collection proposes that a Puritan literary tradition existed that was distinct from broader conceptions of early modern English and Protestant traditions and offers a nuanced account of the distinct and variegated contribution that Puritanism has made to the construction of literature as a concept in English. It ranges from the late sixteenth through to the nineteenth century, and spans British, European, and American Puritan cultures. It offers new analyses of well-known Puritan writers such as Anne Bradstreet, John Bunyan, Richard Baxter, and John Milton, as well as less familiar figures, such as Mary Rowlandson and Joseph Hussey, and writers less often associated with Puritanism, such as Andrew Marvell and Aphra Behn.

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Utgivningsdatum2024-07-09
Mått160 x 240 x 20 mm
Vikt596 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor278
FörlagOUP OXFORD
ISBN9780198838876

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Johanna Harris is Associate Professor of Literature in the Western Civilisation Program at the Australian Catholic University. Her research and publications focus on the literature, religion, and politics of the early modern period. With Alison Searle, she is a general editor of The Complete Correspondence of Richard Baxter and a volume editor for The Oxford Traherne (both forthcoming with Oxford University Press).Alison Searle is Associate Professor of Textual Studies at the University of Leeds. Her research and publications focus on epistolary culture, scholarly editing, and the relationship between literature and theology. Her most recent book is Pastoral Care through Letters in the British Atlantic (Cambridge University Press, 2023). She is also a general editor (with Johanna Harris) of The Complete Correspondence of Richard Baxter (forthcoming with Oxford University Press).

List of AbbreviationsContributorsIsabel Rivers: Introduction: The Idea of Puritan Literature1: Sharon Achinstein: Anne Bradstreet: Poet and Theorist of Empire2: Alison Searle: Performing Pastoral Care Through Letters3: Gordon Campbell: Milton and the Performing Arts4: Anne Dunan-Page: The Cambridge and London Experiences of Joseph Hussey: Conversion Narratives in the Eighteenth Century5: David Loewenstein: Spiritual Inwardness, Religious Antiformalism, and Puritan Polemic in Paradise Lost6: Johanna Harris: 'Holy, safe, and sweet, and durable': Richard Baxter's Writings and Puritan Friendship7: Martin Dzelzainis: De haeretico comburendo: Marvell, Hobbes, and Heresy8: Elaine Hobby: 'What need has she to think of Heaven upon her Wedding-day?': Aphra Behn, Hypocrisy, and the Puritan Tradition9: Laura Knoppers: 'For the Benefit of the Afflicted': Unsettling Comfort in Mary Rowlandson's Captivity Narrative10: W. R. Owens: 'There you shall enjoy your friends again': Bunyan's Depiction of Heaven11: Tom Charlton: Richard Baxter's 'Life': Editing the Puritan Experience in the Seventeenth Century12: Nigel Smith: Richard Baxter and International Protestantism13: Tessa Whitehouse: Women's Writing and the Puritan Tradition of MemorialIndex

This is a welcome addition to the growing body of work that recognises the creative energies of our Puritan forebears in the early modern period. I recommend it to all who share my curiosity about many of the topics under discussion. Its price is not expensive for a work of scholarship but suggests that you may need to consult it first in the library. However that, in my view, may well lead to a considered and rewarding purchase.