عنوان

New England Beyond Criticism

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:9781118854549

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987778

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انگلیسی

Title Proper

New England Beyond Criticism

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[book]

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: In Defense of America's First Literature

First Statement of Responsibility

\ Elisa New

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

New York

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

: Wiley Blackwell

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

, 2014

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

ix, 322 pages

Series Title

Wiley-Blackwell Manifestos

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The final chapter, A Fable for Critics: Autobiographical Epilogue, is about the author.

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Index

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Bibliography

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1. Introduction: New England Beyond Criticism. Part I. Excitations: Protestant Ups and Downs; 2. Variety as Religious Experience: Four Case Studies: Dickinson, Edwards, Taylor and Cotton; 3. The Popularity of Doom: From Wigglesworth, Poe and Stowe through the The Da Vinci Code; 4. I Take "no less than skies": Dickinson's Flights -- Part II. Congregations: Rites of Assembly; 5. Lost in the Woods Again: Coming Home to Wilderness in Bradford, Thoreau, Frost, and Bishop; 6. Growing Up a Goodman: Hawthorne's Way; 7. "Shall Not Perish from the Earth": The Counting of Souls in Jewett, DuBois, E.A. Robinson and Frost; 8. Disinheriting New England: Robert Lowell's Reformations -- Part III. Matriculations: In Academic Terms; 9. Winter at the Corner of Quincy and Harvard: The Brothers James;10. Upon a Peak in Beinecke: The beauty of the book in the poetry of Susan Howe; 11. Balm for the Prodigal: Marilynne Robinson's Gilead; 12. A Fable For Critics: Autobiographical Epilogue.

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"Timely and beautifully written, New England Beyond Criticism provides a passionate defense of the importance of the literature of New England to the American literary canon, and its impact on the development of spirituality, community, and culture in America. An exploration and defense of the prominence of New England's literary tradition within the canon of American literature. Traces the impact of the literature of New England on the development of spirituality, community, and culture in America. Includes in-depth studies of work from authors and poets such as William Bradford, Emily Dickinson, Robert Frost, Henry David Thoreau, Susan Howe, and Marilynne Robinson. Examines the place and impression of New England literature in the nation's intellectual history and the lives of its readers"--

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:In defense of America's first literature

New, Elisa

American literature-- New England-- History and criticism

Literature and society-- United States-- History

College teachers -- Biography

LITERARY CRITICISM -- Poetry

New England -- In literature

New England -- Intellectual life

United States -- Intellectual life

ادبیات آمریکا -- نیوانگلند -- تاریخ و نقد

ادبیات -- جنبه های اجتماعی -- ایالات متحده -- تاریخ

مدرسان -- سرگذشتنامه

نقد ادبی -- شعر

نیوانگلند -- در ادبیات

نیوانگلند -- زندگی فرهنگی

ایالات متحده -- زندگی فرهنگی

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Book number

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New, Elisa

Date of Transaction

20151101120319.0

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rda

Uniform Resource Identifier

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270410

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