Puritan Conversion Narrative

Name: Puritan Conversion Narrative
Brand: Cambridge University Press
SKU: 9780521311472
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The Beginnings of American Expression

Автор: Patricia Caldwell

Език:

Корици: С меки корици

Издател: Cambridge University Press

Наличност: Външен склад

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In the mid-seventeenth century, persons on both sides of the Atlantic wishing to join a Puritan chur...

Информация за книгата

Автор

Patricia Caldwell

Език

Английски език

Корици

Книга - С меки корици

Издадена

1985

страници

224

EAN

9780521311472

ISBN

0521311470

Enbook ID

02027339

Издател

Cambridge University Press

Теглоt

340

Размери

152 x 229 x 13

Пълно описание

In the mid-seventeenth century, persons on both sides of the Atlantic wishing to join a Puritan church had to appear before all of its members and tell the story of their religious conversion - in effect, to give convincing verbal evidence that their souls were saved. New England's Puritans widely adopted this practice, and in this book Patricia Caldwell attempts to unravel the mystery of this procedure by viewing it as a literary phenomenon that met the special imaginative and expressive needs of troubled people in a time of great turmoil. In the first comparative reading of conversion stories as literary expression, Caldwell shows that these symbolic and deeply religious narratives represent 'the first faint murmurings of a truly American voice'.

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