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The work of self-representation : lyric poetry in colonial New England
Title:
The work of self-representation : lyric poetry in colonial New England
Author:
Schweitzer, Ivy.
Personal Author:
Schweitzer, Ivy.
Publication Information:
Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [1991]

©1991
Physical Description:
xi, 306 pages ; 24 cm.
Series:
Gender & American culture

Gender & American culture.
Language:
English
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.
Subject Term:
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.
Geographic Term:
New England -- Intellectual life.
ISBN:
9780807819791

9780807843291
Format :
Book

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