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Subject(s)

• Calvin, Jean 1509-1564—Influence [Browse]
• Puritans—New England [Browse]
• Calvinism—United States—History [Browse]
• Christian literature, American—Puritan authors—History and criticism [Browse]

Series

• Religion in America series (Oxford University Press) [More in this series]
• Religion in America

Summary note

Van Engen argues that a Calvinist theology of sympathy shaped the politics, religion, rhetoric, and literature of early New England. He revises dominant accounts of Puritanism and challenges the literary history of sentimentalism by unearthing the pervasive presence of sympathy in a large archive of Puritan sermons, treatises, tracts, poems, journals, histories, and captivity narratives.

Notes

Includes index.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Source of description

Description based on print version record.

Language note

English

Contents

• Puritan sympathy
• Love of the brethren and the Antinomian controversy
• Sympathy, persuasion, and seduction
• Transatlantic relations and the rhetoric of sympathy
• Sympathy, sincerity, and sentimental technique
• Bewildered sympathy
• Transformation and continuity at the end of the century.

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ISBN

• 0-19-026665-1
• 0-19-937964-5
• 0-19-937965-3

OCLC

922973257

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