The New England mind : the seventeenth century

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The New England mind : the seventeenth century

Perry Miller

Harvard University Press, 1982, c1954

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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: ISBN 9780674613058

内容説明

The late Perry Miller once stated, I have been compelled to insist that the mind of man is the basic factor in human history, and his study of the mind in America has shaped the thought of three decades of scholars. The fifteen essays here collected--several of them previously unpublished--address themselves to facets of the American consciousness and to their expression in literature from the time of the Cambridge Agreement to the Nobel Prize acceptance speeches of Hemingway and Faulkner. A companion volume to Errand into the Wilderness, its general theme is one adumbrated in Mr. Miller's two-volume masterpiece, The New England Mind--the thrust of civilization into the vast, empty continent and its effect upon Americans' concept of themselves as nature's nation. The essays first concentrate on Puritan covenant theology and its gradual adaptation to changing conditions in America: the decline in zeal for a Bible commonwealth, the growth of trade and industy, and the necessity for coexisting with large masses of unchurched people. As the book progresses, the emphasis shifts from religion to the philosophy of nature to the development of an original literature, although Mr. Miller is usually analyzing simultaneously all three aspects of the American quest for self-identity. In the final essays, he shows how the forces that molded the self-conscious articulateness of the early New Englanders still operate in the work of contemporary American writers. The introduction to this collection is by Kenneth Murdock, Francis Lee Higginson Professor of English Literature, Emeritus, Harvard University, who, with Perry Miller and Samuel Eliot Morison, accomplished what hasbeen called one of the great historical re-evaluations of this generation.
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: pbk ISBN 9780674613065

内容説明

In The New England Mind: The Seventeenth Century, as well as successor The New England Mind: From Colony to Province, Perry Miller asserts a single intellectual history for America that could be traced to the Puritan belief system.

目次

PART 1: RELIGION AND LEARNING 1. The Augustinian Strain of Piety 2. The Practice of Piety 3. The Intellectual Character 4. The Intellectual Heritage PART 2: COSMOLOGY 5. The Instrument of Reason 6. Knowledge 7. The Uses of Reason 8. Nature PART 3: ANTHROPOLOGY 9. The Nature of Man 10. The Means of Conversion 11. Rhetoric 12. The Plain Style PART 4: SOCIOLOGY 13. The Covenant of Grace 14. The Social Covenant 15. The Church Covenant 16. God's Controversy with New England Appendix A. The Literature of Ramus' Logic in Europe Appendix B. The Federal School of Theology Notes Index

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