The goodly word : the Puritan influence in American literature from Jonathan Edwards to William James
Print Book, English, 2005
Clements Academic, Toronto, 2005
9781894667791, 1894667794
60416294
Part One: The genesis of Puritanism
I. The rhetoric of Puritanism
II. The origins of Puritanism
III. The tropology of Puritanism
Heart, stomach, bowels, marrow
Head, hands, eyes
IV. The vocabulary of Puritanism
God
The invisible world
Substance
The information of love
Predestination
Election
Ordo Salutis
Covenance
Prayer and meditation
Prophecy
Conscience and law
Christianity and time
Cyclical, duration, and relative time
V. The Puritan culture
The Puritan ethos
Recreation and theater
The Puritan family
Seventeenth-century women
Part Two: The dialectics of Puritanism
Isaac Newton and the language of nature
John Locke and the language of power
Jonathan Edwards and the psychology of election
The observations of Sampson Reed
Individualism from Tocqueville to Whitman
Emerson and the pursuit of power
Jonathan Edwards and The Scarlet Letter
Henry Adams and the religion of science
William James and the psychology of volition
Last words
Reprint. originally published under title: The pursuit of power : studies in the vocabulary of Puritanism. New York : Lang, 1995