The Puritan-Provincial Vision - Scottish and American Literature in the Nineteenth Century (Hardcover, New)

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.

General

Imprint:	Cambridge UniversityPress
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture
Release date:	May 1990
First published:	1990
Authors:	Susan Manning
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 17mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	254
Edition:	New
ISBN-13:	978-0-521-37237-4
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > 19th century
LSN:	0-521-37237-2
Barcode:	9780521372374

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