New England beyond criticism : in defense of America's first literature /

• Main Author: New, Elisa
• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Chichester, West Sussex : Wiley Blackwell, 2014.
• Series: Wiley-Blackwell manifestos.
• Subjects: New, Elisa.; New, Elisa; American literature > New England > History and criticism.; Literature and society > United States > History.; College teachers > Biography.; LITERARY CRITICISM / Poetry.; American literature.; College teachers.; Intellectual life.; Literature.; Literature and society.; New England > In literature.; New England > Intellectual life.; United States > Intellectual life.; New England.; United States.; Electronic books.; Biography.; Criticism, interpretation, etc.; History.

"Timely and beautifully written, New England Beyond Criticism provides a passionate defense of the importance of the literature of New England to the American literary canon, and its impact on the development of spirituality, community, and culture in America. An exploration and defense of the...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Introduction: New England Beyond Criticism. Part I. Excitations: Protestant Ups and Downs; 2. Variety as Religious Experience: Four Case Studies: Dickinson, Edwards, Taylor and Cotton; 3. The Popularity of Doom: From Wigglesworth, Poe and Stowe through the The Da Vinci Code; 4. I Take "no less than skies": Dickinson's Flights
• Part II. Congregations: Rites of Assembly; 5. Lost in the Woods Again: Coming Home to Wilderness in Bradford, Thoreau, Frost, and Bishop; 6. Growing Up a Goodman: Hawthorne's Way; 7. "Shall Not Perish from the Earth": The Counting of Souls in Jewett, DuBois, E.A. Robinson and Frost; 8. Disinheriting New England: Robert Lowell's Reformations
• Part III. Matriculations: In Academic Terms; 9. Winter at the Corner of Quincy and Harvard: The Brothers James;10. Upon a Peak in Beinecke: Susan Howe in the Connecticut Valley; 11. Balm for the Prodigal: Marilynne Robinson's Gilead; 12. A Fable For Critics: Autobiographical Epilogue.