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English literature --- Theology in literature --- Christian literature, American --- Christianity and literature --- Christian literature, English --- History and criticism --- -English literature --- -Christian literature, American --- -Christianity and literature --- Literature and Christianity --- Literature --- Christian literature --- American Christian literature --- American literature --- British literature --- Inklings (Group of writers) --- Nonsense Club (Group of writers) --- Order of the Fancy (Group of writers) --- English Christian literature --- English literature - 20th century - History and criticism --- Christian literature, American - History and criticism --- Christian literature, English - History and criticism
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Since the late 19th century, religiously themed books in America have been commercially popular yet scorned by critics. Working at the intersection of literary history, lived religion and consumer culture, Erin A. Smith considers the largely unexplored world of popular religious books, examining the apparent tension between economic and religious imperatives for authors, publishers and readers.
Literature and society --- Religious literature, American --- Christian literature, American --- American religious literature --- American literature --- History --- History and criticism. --- United States --- Church history
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Puritan American writers faced a dilemma: they had an obligation to use language as a celebration of divine artistry, but they could not allow their writing to become an iconic graven image of authorial self-idolatry. In this study William Scheick explores one way in which William Bradford, Nathaniel Ward, Anne Bradstreet, Urian Oakes, Edward Taylor, and Jonathan Edwards mediated these conflicting imperatives. They did so, he argues, by creating moments in their works when they and their audience could hesitate and contemplate the central paradox of language: its capacity to intimate both conc
American literature --- Puritan authors --- History and criticism --- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 --- New England --- Christian literature [American ] --- Puritans --- Intellectual life --- Rhetoric --- 1500-1800 --- Bradford, William --- Criticism and interpretation --- Morton, Thomas --- Mather, Richard --- Taylor, Edward --- Bradstreet, Anne Dudley --- Edwards, Jonathan --- Bellamy, Edward --- Fiske, Nathan --- English language --- Christian literature, American --- English literature --- Agrarians (Group of writers) --- Rhetoric. --- Intellectual life. --- History and criticism. --- Germanic languages
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