American Puritan Imagination: Essays in Revaluation

by Sacvan Bercovitch

Book Overview

Over the last two decades a major revaluation has been taking place of the colonial Puritan imagination. With the growth of interest in early American literature has come increasing recognition of its quality and a better understanding of its place in the continuity of American culture. However, much of the best critical work to date has been published as articles in scholarly journals, and in bringing together for the first time the best work in...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521203929
• ISBN13: 9780521203920
• Release Date: June 1974
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 273 Pages
• Weight: 0.99 lbs.