Author: Perry MillerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
Sources for The New England Mind
Author: Perry MillerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
The New England Mind
Author: Perry MillerPublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674613065
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 546
Book Description
The late Perry Miller once stated, "I have been compelled to insist that the mind of man is the basic factor in human history," and his study of the mind in America has shaped the thought of three decades of scholars. The fifteen essays here collected--several of them previously unpublished--address themselves to facets of the American consciousness and to their expression in literature from the time of the Cambridge Agreement to the Nobel Prize acceptance speeches of Hemingway and Faulkner. A companion volume to "Errand into the Wilderness," its general theme is one adumbrated in Mr. Miller's two-volume masterpiece, "The New England Mind"--the thrust of civilization into the vast, empty continent and its effect upon Americans' concept of themselves as "nature's nation." The essays first concentrate on Puritan covenant theology and its gradual adaptation to changing conditions in America: the decline in zeal for a "Bible commonwealth," the growth of trade and industy, and the necessity for coexisting with large masses of unchurched people. As the book progresses, the emphasis shifts from religion to the philosophy of nature to the development of an original literature, although Mr. Miller is usually analyzing simultaneously all three aspects of the American quest for self-identity. In the final essays, he shows how the forces that molded the self-conscious articulateness of the early New Englanders still operate in the work of contemporary American writers. The introduction to this collection is by Kenneth Murdock, Francis Lee Higginson Professor of English Literature, Emeritus, Harvard University, who, with Perry Miller and Samuel Eliot Morison, accomplished what has been called "one of the great historical re-evaluations of this generation."
The New England Mind
Author: Perry MILLERPublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674041046
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 524
Book Description
In The New England Mind: From Colony to Province, as well as its predecessor The New England Mind: The Seventeenth Century, Perry Miller asserts a single intellectual history for America that could be traced to the Puritan belief system.
The New England Mind
Author: Perry MillerPublisher:
ISBN: 9780674613058
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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The Seventeenth Century
Author: Perry MillerThe New England mind. [1]. The seventeenth century
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Author: Perry MillerThe Seventeenth Century
Author: Perry Gilbert Eddy MillerPublisher:
ISBN: 9781258340216
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 542
Book Description
The New England Mind
Author: Perry MillerPublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674613010
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 532
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Witch-Hunting in Seventeenth-Century New England
Author: David D. HallPublisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 0822382202
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 386
Book Description
This superb documentary collection illuminates the history of witchcraft and witch-hunting in seventeenth-century New England. The cases examined begin in 1638, extend to the Salem outbreak in 1692, and document for the first time the extensive Stamford-Fairfield, Connecticut, witch-hunt of 1692–1693. Here one encounters witch-hunts through the eyes of those who participated in them: the accusers, the victims, the judges. The original texts tell in vivid detail a multi-dimensional story that conveys not only the process of witch-hunting but also the complexity of culture and society in early America. The documents capture deep-rooted attitudes and expectations and reveal the tensions, anger, envy, and misfortune that underlay communal life and family relationships within New England’s small towns and villages. Primary sources include court depositions as well as excerpts from the diaries and letters of contemporaries. They cover trials for witchcraft, reports of diabolical possessions, suits of defamation, and reports of preternatural events. Each section is preceded by headnotes that describe the case and its background and refer the reader to important secondary interpretations. In his incisive introduction, David D. Hall addresses a wide range of important issues: witchcraft lore, antagonistic social relationships, the vulnerability of women, religious ideologies, popular and learned understandings of witchcraft and the devil, and the role of the legal system. This volume is an extraordinarily significant resource for the study of gender, village politics, religion, and popular culture in seventeenth-century New England.
Author: Perry Miller