American Literature and the New Puritan Studies

This book contains thirteen original essays about Puritan culture in colonial New England. Prompted by the growing interest in secular studies, as well as postnational, transnational, and postcolonial critique in the humanities, American Literature and the New Puritan Studies seeks to represent and advance contemporary interest in a field long recognized, however problematically, as foundational to the study of American literature. It invites readers of American literature and culture to reconsider the role of seventeenth-century Puritanism in the creation of the United States of America and its consequent cultural and literary histories. It also records the significant transformation in the field of Puritan studies that has taken place in the last quarter century. In addition to re-reading well known texts of seventeenth-century Puritan New England, the volume contains essays focused on unknown or lesser studied events and texts, as well as new scholarship on post-Puritan archives, monuments, and historiography.

Author: Bryce Traister
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 09/07/2017
Pages: 254
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.26lbs
Size: 9.40h x 6.55w x 0.36d
ISBN: 9781107101883

About the Author
Traister, Bryce: - Bryce Traister is a Professor of English and American Studies at University of Western Ontario. Born in Southern California, he holds a Ph.D. in English from University of California, Berkeley. He has published widely on American literary studies and methodology. He is the author of Female Piety and the Invention of American Puritanism (2016) and is a past President of the Canadian Association of American Studies.