{"product_id":"new-england-beyond-criticism-9781118854549","title":"New England Beyond Criticism","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNEW ENGLAND BEYOND CRITICISM  \u003cp\u003eElisa New's book is a remarkable achievement. It is very rare that a critic manages to ask what seem exactly the right questions, then to answer them in a lively, brilliant, evocative, and supremely intelligent prose. \u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eCharles F. Altieri,\u003c\/b\u003e University of California\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eElisa New is a refreshing voice among critics and historians of literature. She has a keen sense of the nature of New England and its deep spiritual resources, reaching back to the Puritans, moving through the great nineteenth-century expressions of interior landscapes and visions. This is a book I welcome and celebrate. \u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eJay Parini,\u003c\/b\u003e Middlebury College\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLiterary criticism of the past thirty years has undercut what the canonizers of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries saw as the fundamental role of early New England in the development of American literary culture. And yet, a determination in literary circles to topple perceived Ivy League elitism a\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAcknowledgments vii\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e 1 Introduction: New England Beyond Criticism 1\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart I\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eExcitations: Protestant Ups and Downs 21\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e 2 Variety as Religious Experience: Four Case Studies: Dickinson, Edwards, Taylor, and Cotton 23\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e 3 The Popularity of Doom: From Wigglesworth, Poe, and Stowe through \u003ci\u003eThe Da Vinci Code\u003c\/i\u003e 47\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e 4 “I Take—No Less than Skies—”: Dickinson’s Flights 75\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart II\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eCongregations: Rites of Assembly 103\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e 5 Lost in the Woods Again: Coming Home to Wilderness in Bradford, Thoreau, Frost, and Bishop 105\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e 6 Growing Up a Goodman: Hawthorne’s Way 140\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e 7 “Shall Not Perish from the Earth”: The Counting of Souls in Jewett, Du Bois, E.A. Robinson, and Frost 160\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e 8 Disinheriting New England: Robert Lowell’s Reformations 201\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart III\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eMatriculations: In Academic Terms 225\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9 Winter at the Corner of Quincy and Harvard: The Brothers James 227\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10 Upon a Peak in Beinecke: The Beauty of the Book in the Poetry of Susan Howe 235\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e11 Balm for the Prodigal: Marilynne Robinson’s\u003ci\u003e Gilead\u003c\/i\u003e 265\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e12 A Fable for Critics: Autobiographical Epilogue 279\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex 308\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"John Wiley \u0026 Sons Inc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51769056330071,"sku":"9781118854549","price":24.65,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781118854549.jpg?v=1758719483","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/new-england-beyond-criticism-9781118854549","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}