25 Jan 2019

BRYCE TRAISTER, ED., The New Puritan Studies and American Literature (Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2017), 242 pp.

BRYCE TRAISTER, ED., The New Puritan Studies and American Literature (Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2017), 242 pp. Amerikastudien/American Studies 63.2 Surveying the field of American literary history in 1992, Sacvan Bercovitch found that “consensus of all kinds has broken down,” fragmented into “a Babel of contending approaches” (Rites of Assent 355). He especially meant the tradition…

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21 Jan 2019

RECENT TRENDS IN EARLY AMERICAN STUDIES: A REVIEW ESSAY Juliana Barr und Edward Countryman, eds.; Contested Spaces of Early America (Philadelphia: U of Philadelphia P, 2014), 444 pp.; Stacy Schiff, The Witches: Salem, 1692 (London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2015), 512 pp. Benjamin C. Ray, Satan & Salem: The Witch-Hunt Crisis of 1692 (Charlottesville, VA: U of Virginia P, 2015), 264 pp. Richard C. De Prospo, The Latest Early American Literature (Newark, NJ: Delaware UP, 2016), 400 pp.

Recent Trends in Early American Studies: A Review Essay JULIANA BARR and EDWARD COUNTRYMANN, eds., Contested Spaces of Early America (Philadelphia: U of Philadelphia P, 2014), 444 pp. STACY SCHIFF, The Witches: Salem, 1692 (London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2015), 512 pp. BENJAMIN C. RAY, Satan & Salem: The Witch-Hunt Crisis of 1692 (Charlottesville, VA: U…

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