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title	:	A Literary History of New England
author	:	Westbrook, Perry D.
publisher	:	Lehigh University Press
isbn10 | asin	:	0934223025
print isbn13	:	9780934223027
ebook isbn13	:	9780585281728
language	:	English
subject	American literature--New England--History and criticism, New England in literature, New England--Intellectual life.
publication date	:	1988
lcc	:	PS243.W42 1988eb
ddc	:	810/.9/974
subject	:	American literature--New England--History and criticism, New England in literature, New England--Intellectual life.

Page 1 A Literary History of New England

Page 2 Other books by Perry D. Westbrook: Biography of an Island (1958) The Greatness of Man: An Essay on Dostoyevsky and Whitman (1961) Mary Ellen Chase (1965) Mary Wilkins Freeman (1967) John Burroughs (1974) William Bradford (1978) Free Will and Determinism in American Literature (1979) Acres of Flint: Sarah Orne Jewett and Her Contemporaries (1981) The New England Town in Fact and Fiction (1982) The Writing Women of New England, 16301900: An Anthology (1982) (coeditor)

Page 3 A Literary History of New England Perry D. Westbrook

Page 4 1988 by Associated University Presses, Inc. Associated University Presses 440 Forsgate Drive Cranbury, NJ 08512 Associated University Presses 25 Sicilian Avenue London WC1A 2QH, England Associated University Presses P.O. Box 488, Port Credit Mississauga, Ontario Canada L5G 4M2 The paper used in this publication meets the requirements of the American National Standard for Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials Z39.48-1984. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Westbrook, Perry D. A literary history of New England. Bibliography: p. Includes index. 1. American literatureNew EnglandHistory and criticism. 2. New England in literature. 3. New EnglandIntellectual life. I. Title. PS243.W42 1988 810'.9'974 87-45767 ISBN 0-934223-02-5 (alk. paper) Printed in the United States of America

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Page 7 Contents Preface 9 Acknowledgments 11 1 The Sacred Bond and the Lord's Remembrancers 15 2 Cotton Mather and Puritan Sermons 28 3 Puritan Poetry: Anne Bradstreet, Michael Wigglesworth, and Edward Taylor 38 4 Personal Records: Mary Rowlandson, Sarah Kemble Knight, and Samuel Sewall 59 5 Jonathan Edwards and the Great Awakening 65 6 Writers of the Revolution and Early Republic: Mercy Warren, Abigail Adams, John Trumbull, Phillis Wheatley, Timothy Dwight, and Joel Barlow 75 7 The Beginnings of Fiction and Drama: William Hill Brown, Susanna Haswell Rowson, Hannah Webster Foster, and Royall Tyler 92 8 Two Berkshire Authors: William Cullen Bryant and Catharine Maria Sedgwick 102 9 Unitarianism and the Beginnings of Transcendentalism 116 10 Ralph Waldo Emerson 126 11 Henry David Thoreau 144 12 Margaret Fuller 153 13 Lesser Transcendentalists: Their Prose and Poetry 159 14 The Household Poets: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, John Greenleaf Whittier, Oliver Wendell Holmes, and James Russell Lowell 173 15 Nathaniel Hawthorne and Herman Melville 193 16 Harriet Beecher Stowe and Henry Ward Beecher 211 17 Emily Dickinson and Frederick Goddard Tuckerman 219 18 Louisa May Alcott, Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, and Lucy Larcom 238 19 Six Regionalists: Rose Terry Cooke, Mary E. Wilkins Freeman, Sarah Orne Jewett, Celia Thaxter, Alice Brown, and Rowland Robinson 248 20 The Rise of Realism: John William De Forest, William Dean Howells, Edward Bellamy, Thomas Bailey Aldrich, and Henry James

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