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Godly Letters - The Literature of the American Puritans (Paperback)
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Godly Letters - The Literature of the American Puritans (Paperback)
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In Godly Letters, Michael J. Colacurcio analyzes a treasury of
works written by the first generation of seventeenth-century
American Puritans. Arguing that insufficient scrutiny has been
given this important oeuvre, he calls for a reevaluation of the
imaginative and creative qualities of America's early literature of
inspired ecclesiological experiment, one that focuses on the
quality of the works as well as the demanding theology they
express. Colacurcio gives a detailed, richly contextualized account
of the meaning of these "godly letters" in rhetorical, theological,
and political terms. From his close readings of the major texts by
the first generation of Puritans-including William Bradford, Thomas
Hooker, Edward Johnson, John Winthrop, Thomas Shepard, and John
Cotton-he expertly illuminates qualities other studies have often
overlooked. In his words, close study of the literature yields work
"comprehensive, circumspect, determined subtle, energetic,
relentlessly intellectual, playful in spite of their cultural
prohibitions, in spite of themselves, even, they are in every way
remarkable products of a culture that . . . assigned an
extraordinarily high place to the life of words." Magisterial in
sweep, Godly Letters is likely to stand as the definitive work on
the Puritan literary achievement.
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