Rappaccini's Children: American Writers in a Calvinist World by Shurr, William H.

Rappaccini's Children: American Writers in a Calvinist World (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780813154824)

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Rappaccini's Children: American Writers in a Calvinist World by Shurr, William H.

Rappaccini's Children: American Writers in a Calvinist World

$15.00
Rappaccini's Children: American Writers in a Calvinist World by Shurr, William H.

Rappaccini's Children: American Writers in a Calvinist World

$15.00
Format: Paperback
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Nathaniel Hawthorne's short story ""Rappaccini's Daughter"" tells of a beautiful girl who has, from birth, absorbed the poison from the flowers of her father's garden. In this allegorical tale of the fallen Garden of Eden, William H. Shurr finds a metaphor for the fate of many American writers, for whom the heritage of calvinism has been the poisoned fruit of the Garden of the New World. For many American writers, the legacy of the Puritan Fathers has been a pervasive sense of sinfulness and guil

Author: William H. Shurr
ISBN-10: 0813154820
ISBN-13: 9780813154824
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Language: English
Published: 07/15/2014
Pages: 176
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.58lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.40d
By William H. Shurr
By William H. Shurr
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William H. Shurr, who holds degrees in both theology and literature, is professor of English at the University of Tennessee. His earlier book, The Mystery of Iniquity: Melville as Poet, was co-winner of the 1971 SAMLA Studies Award.

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