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1 online resource. "Timely and beautifully written, New England Beyond Criticism provides a passionate defense of the importance of the literature of New England to the American literary canon, and its impact on the development of spirituality, community, and culture in America. An exploration and defense of the prominence of New England's literary tradition within the canon of American literature. Traces the impact of the literature of New England on the development of spirituality, community, and culture in America. Includes in-depth studies of work from authors and poets such as William Bradford, Emily Dickinson, Robert Frost, Henry David Thoreau, Susan Howe, and Marilynne Robinson. Examines the place and impression of New England literature in the nation's intellectual history and the lives of its readers"-- 1. Introduction: New England Beyond Criticism. Part I. Excitations: Protestant Ups and Downs; 2. Variety as Religious Experience: Four Case Studies: Dickinson, Edwards, Taylor and Cotton; 3. The Popularity of Doom: From Wigglesworth, Poe and Stowe through the The Da Vinci Code; 4. I Take "no less than skies": Dickinson's Flights -- Part II. Congregations: Rites of Assembly; 5. Lost in the Woods Again: Coming Home to Wilderness in Bradford, Thoreau, Frost, and Bishop; 6. Growing Up a Goodman: Hawthorne's Way; 7. "Shall Not Perish from the Earth": The Counting of Souls in Jewett, DuBois, E.A. Robinson and Frost; 8. Disinheriting New England: Robert Lowell's Reformations -- Part III. Matriculations: In Academic Terms; 9. Winter at the Corner of Quincy and Harvard: The Brothers James;10. Upon a Peak in Beinecke: Susan Howe in the Connecticut Valley; 11. Balm for the Prodigal: Marilynne Robinson's Gilead; 12. A Fable For Critics: Autobiographical Epilogue. Elisa New. The final chapter, A Fable for Critics: Autobiographical Epilogue, is about the author. Includes bibliographical references and index. n-usn-- New, Elisa New, Elisa New, Elisa American literature New England History and criticism Literature and society United States History College teachers Biography LITERARY CRITICISM / Poetry American literature College teachers Intellectual life Literature Literature and society New England In literature New England Intellectual life United States Intellectual life New England United States PS243 810.9/974 LIT014000 New, Elisa. New York : Wiley, 2014 (DLC) 2013050115 9781118854556 (ePub) 1118854551 (ePub) 9781118854563 (Adobe PDF) 111885456X (Adobe PDF) 9781118854587 1118854586 9781118854549 1118854543 2014005193 6F9CFB06-A21A-4338-81F6-3032DDE43DFF OverDrive, Inc. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/book/10.1002/9781118854587 http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/book/10.1002/9781118854587 DLC 140206 20171031100724.0 ocn870211388 eng