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The Puritan Conversion Narrative: The Beginnings of American Expression Revised Edition
Contributor(s): Caldwell, Patricia (Author), Gelpi, Albert (Editor), Posnock, Ross (Editor)

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 ISBN: 0521311470     ISBN-13: 9780521311472
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
OUR PRICE: $39.89  

Binding Type: Paperback
Published: November 1985
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Annotation: This book explores the testimonies of spiritual experience delivered by puritans in the mid-seventeenth century in order to qualify for membership of their local churches.

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BISAC Categories:
- Literary Criticism | American - General
Dewey: 209.73
Series: Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture
Physical Information: 0.51" H x 6" W x 9" L (0.74 lbs) 224 pages
Features: Bibliography
 
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In the mid-seventeenth century, persons on both sides of the Atlantic wishing to join a Puritan church had to appear before all of its members and tell the story of their religious conversion - in effect, to give convincing verbal evidence that their souls were saved. New England's Puritans widely adopted this practice, and in this book Patricia Caldwell attempts to unravel the mystery of this procedure by viewing it as a literary phenomenon that met the special imaginative and expressive needs of troubled people in a time of great turmoil. In the first comparative reading of conversion stories as literary expression, Caldwell shows that these symbolic and deeply religious narratives represent 'the first faint murmurings of a truly American voice'.
 
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