Writing New England: An Anthology from the Puritans to the PresentAndrew Delbanco Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2001 - 463 páginas The story of New England writing begins some 400 years ago, when a group of English Puritans crossed the Atlantic believing that God had appointed them to bring light and truth to the New World. Over the centuries since, the people of New England have produced one of the great literary traditions of the world--an outpouring of poetry, fiction, history, memoirs, letters, and essays that records how the original dream of a godly commonwealth has been both sustained and transformed into a modern secular culture enriched by people of many backgrounds and convictions. Writing New England, edited by the literary scholar and critic Andrew Delbanco, is the most comprehensive anthology of this tradition, offering a full range of thought and style. The major figures of New England literature--from John Winthrop and Anne Bradstreet to Emerson, Hawthorne, Dickinson, and Thoreau, to Robert Frost, Wallace Stevens, Robert Lowell, Anne Sexton, and John Updike--are of course represented, often with fresh and less familiar selections from their works. But Writing New England also samples a wide range of writings including Puritan sermons, court records from the Salem witch trials, Felix Frankfurter's account of the case of Sacco and Vanzetti, William Apess's eulogy for the Native American King Philip, pamphlets and poems of the Revolution and the Civil War, natural history, autobiographical writings of W. E. B. Du Bois and Malcolm X, Mary Antin's account of the immigrant experience, John F. Kennedy's broadcast address on civil rights, and A. Bartlett Giamatti's memoir of a Red Sox fan. Organized thematically, this anthology provides a collective self-portrait of the New England mind. With an introductory essay on the origins of New England, a detailed chronology, and explanatory headnotes for each selection, the book is a welcoming introduction to a great American literary tradition and a treasury of vivid writing that defines what it has meant, over nearly four centuries, to be a New Englander. From the Preface: |
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... young ones keep better order ; " for Dinah herself , somehow , indulged the illu- sion that she , herself , was the soul of order , and it was only the young uns , and the everybody else in the house , that were the cause of anything ...
... young thing , and a very sweet one , who is taking you quite seriously . Your father and I are very glad and very ... young woman , Mary Monahan , are not at present in existence , but information gathered from conversation and ...
... young man with loving admiration . She had never seen anybody so charming and delightful ; the woman's heart , asleep in the child , was vaguely thrilled by a dream of love . Some premonition of that great power stirred and swayed these ...
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Preface | ix |
Chronology | xxxi |
JOHN WINTHROP From A Model of Christian Charity | 3 |
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New England: The Greenwood Encyclopedia of American Regional Cultures Michael Sletcher Sin vista previa disponible - 2004 |