The work of self-representation : lyric poetry in colonial New England

The work of self-representation : lyric poetry in colonial New England / Ivy Schweitzer.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Schweitzer, Ivy
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c1991.
Series:Gender & American culture
Subjects:
American poetry > Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 > History and criticism.
American poetry > Puritan authors > History and criticism.
American poetry > New England > History and criticism.
Christian poetry, American > History and criticism.
Puritans > New England > Intellectual life.
Poetry > Authorship > Sex differences.
Puritans in literature.
Self in literature.
New England > Intellectual life.
Table of Contents:
  • Gendering the universal : the Puritan paradigm of redeemed subjectivity
  • The paradox of "practical conformity" : John Fiske's "Elegy" on John Cotton
  • The Puritan cult of the spouse : Edward Taylor's dialectic of difference
  • Anne Bradstreet : "In the place God had set her"
  • Roger Williams's Key : a gynesis of race.

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