Mary White Rowlandwon, a New England Congregationalist minister's wife, was held captive by the Algonquin Indians during King Philip's War in 1676. Several years after she was ransomed and living among the British again she wrote a narrative of the captivity chronicling her experience in grief, love, resentment, and ethnic trauma. Breitwieser argues that this narrative undercuts the Puritan values Rowlandson attempted to uphold. He reveals where and how Rowlandson breaks with Puritan conventions. He points out that in ...
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Mary White Rowlandwon, a New England Congregationalist minister's wife, was held captive by the Algonquin Indians during King Philip's War in 1676. Several years after she was ransomed and living among the British again she wrote a narrative of the captivity chronicling her experience in grief, love, resentment, and ethnic trauma. Breitwieser argues that this narrative undercuts the Puritan values Rowlandson attempted to uphold. He reveals where and how Rowlandson breaks with Puritan conventions. He points out that in American Puritan religious practice, real experiences were seen as siogns or emblems of moral abstractions. American Puritanism and the Defense of Mourning will be essential reading for all who study early American literature and culture.
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Very Good. Signed and dated by the author on the inside of the front cover, with an inscription to a named individual. Pages crisp and clean except for a few small handling smudges on the right edge of the book; the soft cover and first 20 pages show tiny folds and curls at the corners, otherwise clean and sound. vii, 223pp.; Signed by Author.
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New in new jacket. (Wisconsin Project on American Writers) "Rowlandson, a New England Congregationalist minister's wife, was held captive by the Algonquin Indians in 1676. Several years after she was ransomed and living among the British again she wrote a narrative of the captivity. Breitwieser argues that this narrative undercuts the Puritan values Rowlandson attempted to uphold." [from publisher] Includes bibliographical references and index. A clean unmarked copy.
