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What is meant by the Puritan literary tradition, and when did the idea of Puritan literature, as distinct from Puritan beliefs and practices, come into being? The answer is not straightforward. This volume addresses these questions by bringing together new research on a wide range of established and emerging literary subjects that help to articulate the Puritan literary tradition, including: political polemic and the performing arts; conversion and New-World narratives; individual and corporate life-writings; histories of exile and womens history; book history and the translation and circulation of Puritan literature abroad; Puritan epistolary networks; discourses of Puritan friendship; the historiography of Puritanism defined through editing and publishing; doctrinal controversy; and the history of emotions. This essay collection proposes that a Puritan literary tradition existed that was distinct from broader conceptions of early modern English and Protestant traditions and offers a nuanced account of the distinct and variegated contribution that Puritanism has made to the construction of literature as a concept in English. It ranges from the late sixteenth through to the nineteenth century, and spans British, European, and American Puritan cultures. It offers new analyses of well-known Puritan writers such as Anne Bradstreet, John Bunyan, Richard Baxter, and John Milton, as well as less familiar figures, such as Mary Rowlandson and Joseph Hussey, and writers less often associated with Puritanism, such as Andrew Marvell and Aphra Behn.
Contents
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Contributors
Isabel Rivers: Introduction: The Idea of Puritan Literature
1: Sharon Achinstein: Anne Bradstreet: Poet and Theorist of Empire
2: Alison Searle: Performing Pastoral Care Through Letters
3: Gordon Campbell: Milton and the Performing Arts
4: Anne Dunan-Page: The Cambridge and London Experiences of Joseph Hussey: Conversion Narratives in the Eighteenth Century
5: David Loewenstein: Spiritual Inwardness, Religious Antiformalism, and Puritan Polemic in Paradise Lost
6: Johanna Harris: 'Holy, safe, and sweet, and durable': Richard Baxter's Writings and Puritan Friendship
7: Martin Dzelzainis: De haeretico comburendo: Marvell, Hobbes, and Heresy
8: Elaine Hobby: 'What need has she to think of Heaven upon her Wedding-day?': Aphra Behn, Hypocrisy, and the Puritan Tradition
9: Laura Knoppers: 'For the Benefit of the Afflicted': Unsettling Comfort in Mary Rowlandson's Captivity Narrative
10: W. R. Owens: 'There you shall enjoy your friends again': Bunyan's Depiction of Heaven
11: Tom Charlton: Richard Baxter's 'Life': Editing the Puritan Experience in the Seventeenth Century
12: Nigel Smith: Richard Baxter and International Protestantism
13: Tessa Whitehouse: Women's Writing and the Puritan Tradition of Memorial
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