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

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...

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Place / Publishing House:Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2013]
©2001
Year of Publication:2013
Edition:Reprint 2014
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (463 p.) :; 9 halftones
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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