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The Puritan Conversion Narrative: The Beginnings of American Expression
Patricia Caldwell
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Hardback. This book explores the testimonies of spiritual experience delivered by puritans in the mid-seventeenth century in order to qualify for membership of their local churches. Series: Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture. Num Pages: 200 pages. BIC Classification: DSB. Dimension: 228 x 152. Weight in Grams: 49. Clean copy with some shelf wear fine in dustjacket
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1983
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Condition
Used, Very Good
Series
Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture
Number of Pages
200
Place of Publication
Cambridge, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780521254601
SKU
KJE0002256
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Reviews for The Puritan Conversion Narrative: The Beginnings of American Expression
' … one of the two most essential reference works in early American literature …' Early American Literature 'Rarely does a colonialist put aesthetic sensibility on the line, but that is precisely what Caldwell does here in a critical performance both important and audacious … it is intelligent, judiciously speculative, deeply learned in its materials, and insofar as the subject ... Read more