Writing New England : an anthology from the Puritans to the present
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書誌事項
Writing New England : an anthology from the Puritans to the present
Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2001
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  福岡
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注記
Includes index
内容説明・目次
内容説明
The story of New England writing begins in the 17th century, when a group of English Puritans crossed the Atlantic believing that God had appointed them to bring light and truth to the New World. Over the centuries since, the people of New England have produced one of the great literary traditions of the world - an outpouring of poetry, fiction, history, memoirs, letters, and essays that records how the original dream of a godly commonwealth has been both sustained and transformed into a modern secular culture enriched by people of many backgrounds and convictions. "Writing New England", edited by the literary scholar and critic Andrew Delbanco, is a comprehensive anthology of this tradition, offering a full range of thought and style. The major figures of New England literature - from John Winthrop and Anne Bradstreet to Emerson, Hawthorne, Dickinson, and Thoreau, to Robert Frost, Wallace Stevens, Robert Lowell, Anne Sexton, and John Updike - are of course represented, often with fresh and less familiar selections from their works.
But "Writing New England" also samples a wide range of writings including: Puritan sermons; court records from the Salem witch trials; Felix Frankfurter's account of the case of Sacco and Vanzetti; William Apess's eulogy for the Native American King Philip; pamphlets and poems of the Revolution and the Civil War; natural history; autobiographical writings of W.E.B. Du Bois and Malcolm X; Mary Antin's account of the immigrant experience; John F. Kennedy's broadcast address on civil rights; and A. Bartlett Giamatti's memoir of a Red Sox fan. Organized thematically, this anthology provides a collective self-portrait of the New England mind. With an introductory essay on the origins of New England, a detailed chronology, and explanatory headnotes for each selection, the book is an introduction to a great American literary tradition and a treasury of writing that defines what it has meant, over nearly four centuries, to be a New Englander.
目次
- Preface
- Introduction
- Chronology
- The Founding Idea
- "God Speaks to the Rain"
- The Examined Self
- A Gallery of Portraits
- Education
- Dissident Dreamers
- Strangers in the Promised Land
- The Abiding Sense of Place
- Sources and Acknowledgements
- Index
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