The Puritan-provincial vision : Scottish and American literature in the nineteenth century
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The Puritan-provincial vision : Scottish and American literature in the nineteenth century
(Cambridge studies in American literature and culture)
Cambridge University Press, 2009, c1990
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"First published 1990. This digitally version published 2009"--T.p. verso
"Paperback re-issue"--Back cover
Bibliography: p. 211-237
Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This book suggests an interpretation of the characteristic qualities of Scottish and American literatures. Considering the self-consciously different stance which sets them apart from English literature, the author develops the constituents of the 'puritan-provincial vision': a particular way of looking at life and man's relationship to what lies beyond himself. The book begins with the writings of Calvin and culminates in detailed comparisons of individual works of Scottish and American nineteenth-century prose, questioning the literary and human consequences of this vision through theological, philosophical, political and literary contexts. This puritan-provincial vision is not exclusive to Scottish and American literature so the features discussed here will interest those concerned with other literatures written in English.
Table of Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- 1. Calvin's theology and the puritan mind
- 2. After Armageddon: Jonathan Edwards and David Hume
- 3. From puritanism to provincialism
- 4. The pursuit of the double
- 5. Spectators, spies and spectres: the observer's stance
- 6. 'Is anything central?'
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index.
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