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The Imaginary Puritan - Literature, Intellectual Labor, and the Origins of Personal Life (Paperback)
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The Imaginary Puritan - Literature, Intellectual Labor, and the Origins of Personal Life (Paperback)
Series: The New Historicism: Studies in Cultural Poetics, 21
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Nancy Armstrong and Leonard Tennenhouse challenge traditional
accounts of the origins of modern Anglo-American culture by
focusing on the emergence of print culture in England and the North
American colonies. They postulate a modern middle class that
consisted of authors and intellectuals who literally wrote a new
culture into being. Milton's Paradise Lost marks the
emergence of this new literacy. The authors show how Milton helped
transform English culture into one of self-enclosed families made
up of self-enclosed individuals. However, the authors point out
that the popularity of Paradise Lost was matched by
that of the Indian captivity narratives that flowed into England
from the American colonies. Mary Rowlandson's account of her
forcible separation from the culture of her origins stresses the
ordinary person's ability to regain those lost origins, provided
she remains truly English. In a colonial version of the Miltonic
paradigm, Rowlandson sought to return to a family of individuals
much like the one in Milton's depiction of the fallen world. Thus
the origin both of modern English culture and of the English novel
are located in North America. American captivity narratives
formulated the ideal of personal life that would be reproduced in
the communities depicted by Defoe, Richardson, and later domestic
fiction. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program,
which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to
seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice,
reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices
Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible
once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was
originally published in 1992.
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Imprint: |
University of California Press
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Country of origin: |
United States |
Series: |
The New Historicism: Studies in Cultural Poetics, 21 |
Release date: |
May 2022 |
First published: |
1992 |
Authors: |
Nancy Armstrong
• Leonard Tennenhouse
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Dimensions: |
229 x 152 x 18mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Paperback
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Pages: |
288 |
ISBN-13: |
978-0-520-30896-1 |
Categories: |
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LSN: |
0-520-30896-4 |
Barcode: |
9780520308961 |
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