Design in Puritan American Literature by Scheick, William J.

Design in Puritan American Literature (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780813154244)

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Design in Puritan American Literature by Scheick, William J.

Design in Puritan American Literature

$20.00
Design in Puritan American Literature by Scheick, William J.

Design in Puritan American Literature

$20.00
Format: Paperback
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Puritan American writers faced a dilemma: they had an obligation to use language as a celebration of divine artistry, but they could not allow their writing to become an iconic graven image of authorial self-idolatry. In this study William Scheick explores one way in which William Bradford, Nathaniel Ward, Anne Bradstreet, Urian Oakes, Edward Taylor, and Jonathan Edwards mediated these conflicting imperatives. They did so, he argues, by creating moments in their works when they and their audienc

Author: William J. Scheick
ISBN-10: 0813154243
ISBN-13: 9780813154244
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Language: English
Published: 07/15/2014
Pages: 176
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.51lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.41d
By William J. Scheick
By William J. Scheick
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William J. Scheick is J.R. Millikan Centennial Professor of English and American Literature at the University of Texas, Austin, and editor of Texas Studies in Literature and Language.

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