New England literary culture from revolution through renaissance - Buell, Lawrence (Cambridge [Cambridgeshire] ; New York, NY, USA : Cambridge University Press, 1986)
Machine derived contents note: Part I. Four Overviews: 1. Theoretical premises -- 2. A narrative overview of New England's literary development -- 3. Marketplace, ethos, practice: the Antebellum literary situation -- 4. Neoclassical continuities: the early national era and the New England literary tradition -- Part II. Three Representative Genres: 5. New England Poetics: Emerson, Dickinson, and others -- 6. New England oratory from Everett to Emerson -- 7. Literary scripturism -- Part III. Reinventing Puritanism: the New England Historical Imagination: 8. The concept of puritan ancestry -- 9. The politics of historiography -- 10. Fictionalizing puritan history: some problems and approaches -- 11. Hawthorne and Stowe as rival interpreters of New England Puritanism -- Part IV. New England as a Country of the Imagination: The Spirit of Place: 12. The cultural landscape in regional poetry and prose -- 13. The village as icon -- 14. Lococentrism from Dwight to Thoreau -- 15. Comic grotesque -- 16. Provincial Gothic: Hawthorne, Stoddard, and others -- Postscript -- Appendix. Vital statistics: a quantitative analysis of authorship as a profession in New England.
Includes bibliographical reference and index.
Keywords: American literature -- New England -- History and criticism; Authors, American -- Homes and haunts -- New England; Puritan movements in literature; Puritans -- New England; New England -- In literature; New England -- Civilization; English literature -- New England writers, 1830-1861 - Critical studies