Writing New England : : An Anthology from the Puritans to the Present / / ed. by Andrew Delbanco.

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• MitwirkendeR: Adams, Abigail,; Adams, Henry,; Adams, John Quincy,; Adams, John,; Alcott, Bronson,; Alcott, Louisa May,; Allen, Fred,; Antin, Mary,; Apess, William,; Auchincloss, Louis,; Beston, Henry,; Bishop, Elizabeth,; Bradstreet, Anne,; Bryant, William Cullen,; Bushnell, Horace,; Chapman, John Jay,; Cheever, John,; Cotton, John,; Cummings, Ε.Ε.,; Dana, Richard Henry,; Danforth, Samuel,; Dickinson, Emily,; Douglass, Frederick,; Du Bois, W. Ε. В.,; Edwards, Jonathan,; Eliot, Charles W.,; Emerson, Ralph Waldo,; Fisher, Dorothy Canfield,; Frankfurter, Felix,; Franklin, Benjamin,; Frost, Robert,; Fuller, Margaret,; Giamatti, A . Bartlett,; Haley, Alex,; Hall, Donald,; Harvard College,,; Hawthorne, Nathaniel,; Holmes, Oliver Wendell,; Howe, Julia Ward,; Howells, William Dean,; Jackson, Shirley,; James, Henry,; James, William,; Jewett, Sarah Orne,; Kennedy, John F.,; Kinnell, Galway,; Kozol, Jonathan,; Lewontin, Timothy,; Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth,; Lowell, Robert,; Lukas, J. Anthony,; Marquand, John P.,; Mather, Cotton,; Matthiessen, F.О.,; Mcphee, John,; Oliver, Peter,; Otis, James,; O’Connor, Edwin,; Parker, Theodore,; Peabody, Elizabeth Palmer,; Ripley, George,; Robinson, Edwin Arlington,; Sexton, Anne,; Stafford, Jean,; Stevens, Wallace,; Stoddard, Elizabeth,; Stowe, Harriet Beecher,; Sumner, Charles,; Sumner, William Graham,; Taylor, Edward,; The Salem Court,,; Twain, Mark,; Updike, John,; Webster, Daniel,; West, Dorothy,; White, Ε.Β.,; Wilbur, Richard,; Willis, Nathaniel Parker,; Winthrop, John,; Wolff, Geoffrey,; X, Malcolm,; Τηоreau, Henry David,
• HerausgeberIn: Delbanco, Andrew,
• Place / Publishing House: Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2013]; ©2001
• Year of Publication: 2013
• Edition: Reprint 2014
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (463 p.) :; 9 halftones

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: "Imposing one unitary meaning on New England would be as foolish as it would be unconvincing. Yet one purpose of this book is to convey some sense of New England's continuities and coherence.Not all the writers in this book are major figures (a few are barely known), but all are here because of the bracing freshness with which they describe places, people, ideas, and events to which, even if the subject is familiar, we are re-awakened."

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- INTRODUCTION -- CHRONOLOGY -- The Founding Idea -- From A Model of Christian Charity -- From Α Brief Recognition of New England's Errand into the Wilderness -- God Speaks to the Rain -- Preface to God’s Determinations Touching His Elect -- From The Christian Philosopher -- The Spider Letter -- Forest Hymn -- From Nature -- Dialogue -- From Two Years before the Mast -- From American Notebooks -- From The History of the Puritan Commonwealth -- Four Trees upon a Solitary Acre -- From The Maine Woods -- The Oldest Inhabitant – The Weather of New England -- What Pragmatism Means -- Out, Out– -- The Snow Man -- From The Outermost House -- Mr. Edwards and the Spider -- Another Night in the Ruins -- Mayflies -- The Examined Self -- From Christ the Fountain of Life -- Before the Birth of One of Her Children -- Personal Narrative -- I Should Have Been Too Glad, I See -- From The Education of Henry Adams -- From Darkwater -- To Earthward -- In the Waiting Room -- From The Richer, the Poorer -- A Gallery of Portraits -- From Uncle Toms Cabin -- From The Morgesons -- From The Bostonians -- Miniver Cheevy -- From Literary Friends and Acquaintance -- The Cambridge Ladies -- From The Late George Apley -- From The Last Hurrah -- Reunion -- Plumbing -- From Parsons’ Mill -- Education -- From New England’s First Fruits -- Dogood Papers, No. 4 -- From Conversations with Children -- From Christian Nurture -- From Equality before the Law -- Inaugural Address -- The Function of a University -- Sex Education -- Schoolmasters -- Dissident Dreamers -- Letter to His Wife -- From The Rights of the British Colonies Asserted and Proved -- Letters -- Letters concerning Brook Farm -- Argument before the Supreme Court in the Amistad Case -- The Lady in the White Dress, Whom I Helped into the Omnibus -- Speech in the United States Senate -- From Three Sermons -- Battle–Hymn of the Republic -- Transcendental Wild Oats -- From What Social Classes Owe to Each Other -- Natural Law -- Broadcast Address -- The Green Fields of the Mind -- Strangers in the Promised Land -- Examination of Susanna Martin -- Front Eulogy on King Philip -- From My Bondage and My Freedom -- The Jewish Cemetery at Newport -- From The Promised Land -- From The Case of Sacco and Vanzetti -- Journal Letters -- From Boston Adventure -- The Lottery -- For the Union Dead -- From The Autobiography of Malcolm X -- Her Kind -- From Death at an Early Age -- From Common Ground -- The Abiding Sense of Place -- Hamatreya -- Α White Heron -- From The American Scene -- Maine Speech -- Letter to The Cape Codder -- Scenic View -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS. INDEX -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- INDEX