The enduring power of many antebellum American texts trace their
inspiration to Puritanism. From Melville's preposterous but
irresponsible quarrels with God to Hawthorne's instructed yet edgy
evocations of earlier New England, to Dickinson's finely turned
little blasphemies. Can one imagine that such texts were written
anywhere but in the latter days of Puritanism? Doctrine and
Difference shows how the spirit and forms of liberalism are a
necessary but by no means sufficient explanation for the flowering
of literature in this period. The colonialist writers were
attempting to have things their own provincial way amidst an air of
rejection by the cosmopolitan literary establishment. Capturing the
violence of repression, the energy required to meet its moral
argument head on, and the disease of embattled survival, this book
shows how these works are in many ways the literary remnants of
Puritanism.
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