Puritan Legacies: Paradise Lost and the New England Tradition, 1630-1890 - Softcover

Stavely, Keith W.F.

9780801497773: Puritan Legacies: Paradise Lost and the New England Tradition, 1630-1890

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0801497779 ISBN 13: 9780801497773

Publisher: Cornell University Press, 1990

Winner of the 1988 Modern Language Association Prize for Independent Scholars "Using Paradise Lost as a touchstone first to the English Revolution and second to the way that revolution was transferred to America, Stavely convincingly argues that the 'structure of feeling' embodied in the poem persists through three centuries of American culture. His discussion of Puritan radicalism in New England and, more importantly, his detailed case studies of Marlborough and Westborough, Massachusetts, which he investigates and understands by constant reference to Milton's great poem, display his strong gifts as both literary critic and intellectual historian. Puritan Legacies is a challenging example of the 'New Historicism' we have so long needed."--Philip F. Gura, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

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Examines cases of Puritan radicalism in New England, discusses New England's evolution in terms of Milton's epic poem, and analyzes the Puritan influence.

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