TY - BOOK AU - New,Elisa TI - New England beyond criticism: in defense of America's first literature T2 - Wiley Blackwell manifestos SN - 9781118854556 (ePub) AV - PS243 U1 - 810.9/974 23 PY - 2014/// CY - Chichester, West Sussex PB - Wiley Blackwell KW - New, Elisa. KW - New, Elisa KW - American literature KW - New England KW - History and criticism KW - Literature and society KW - United States KW - History KW - College teachers KW - Biography KW - LITERARY CRITICISM / Poetry KW - bisacsh KW - fast KW - Intellectual life KW - Literature KW - In literature KW - Electronic books KW - Criticism, interpretation, etc N1 - The final chapter, A Fable for Critics: Autobiographical Epilogue, is about the author; Includes bibliographical references and index; 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 N2 - "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"-- UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/9781118854587 ER -