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The Puritan-Provincial Vision - Scottish and American Literature in the Nineteenth Century (Hardcover, New)
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The Puritan-Provincial Vision - Scottish and American Literature in the Nineteenth Century (Hardcover, New)
Series: Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture
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This book suggests a new 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 19th-century prose,
questioning the literary and human consequences of this vision
through theological, philosophical, political and literary
contexts. Among the major authors considered are Jonathan Edwards,
David Hume, Thomas Jefferson, Emerson, Cooper, Poe, Melville,
Hawthorne, Scott, James Hogg, John Galt and Thomas Carlyle.
Evaluations of their work show the characteristic effects of
subject, tone, stance and implication which differentiate
puritan-provincial literature from its central English counterpart.
This puritan-provincial vision is not exclusive to Scottish and
American literatures, the features discussed here will interest
those concerned with other literatures as well.
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