XVII-XVIII, This book contains thirteen original essays about Puritan culture in colonial New England. Prompted by the growing interest in secular studies, as well as postnational, transnational, and ...

They tell stories of pilgrimage, colonization, and genocide; private piety and public life; the growth of national identity (political, cultural, and literary); Puritanism, Quakerism, and Deism; race ...

Paganism captured the court and Puritanism dominated the country. Puritanism as a force in literature gave to the world of its best in Milton and Bunyan. Paganism achieved nothing higher than the ...

"And it is those chimeras which the Society is fighting in its campaign for the 'New Puritanism ... the law against the purveyors of indecent literature is the American System of Censorship.

The word Puritan comes from ‘purity’ or ‘purify’. These were extreme Protestants who wanted to purify the Church of England by returning to the simple and uncomplicated worship and way of ...

The animus of dramatists was stiffened by the Puritan antipathy to the theatre, but the derisive deployment of the term extended far beyond literature. David Hall, whose long and learned book traces ...

Halfway through this tale of piety and plunder in the era of Oliver Cromwell, the reader comes across a telling one-liner from a Puritan divine. It was, wrote Hugh Peter in 1644, a ‘pamphlet-glutted ...

As Greg Barnhisel reveals in “Code Name Puritan,” a life of the literary scholar and World War II spymaster, most of ...

As Greg Barnhisel reveals in “Code Name Puritan,” a life of the literary scholar and World War II spymaster, most of Pearson’s career, too, was unusual. As a student at Yale in the 1920s and ...

It reflects the zeitgeist, our new Puritanism. I can’t think of a better term, though as readers will know it properly ...