The Resource Humor and revelation in American literature : the Puritan connection, Pascal Covici, Jr
Humor and revelation in American literature : the Puritan connection, Pascal Covici, Jr
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- Language
- eng
- Extent
- ix, 226 p.
- Contents
-
- Reluctantly independent: the rattling of chains. A problem of respect ; Genteel and vernacular, Josiah Holland and Mark Twain ; Responses, and intimations of crossing over ; American self-reliance? The case of Hawthorne's Robin ; Melville, the American difference, and Richard Chase -- God's chosen people: the Anglican perspective. Megalomaniacal fantasies... ; Megalomania...with a British accent ; Ossa upon Pelion concluded, and then? ; Britain versus the Bay Colony? Yes...and no -- Certainty: Divine or human?: Bishop Burnet and the matter of choice. Religiously political, politically religious ; Of tolerance, intolerance, and Bishop Fleetwood's country curate ; Toleration, belief, and the power(lessness) of the will --
- The Puritan roots of American humor. Recognitions of the self ; The loneliness of the Solopsist, no laughing matter ; Emerson's saving rejection of the "Noble Doubt" ; Thoreau's recalcitrant individual fires his pistols ; At the heart of it all, the unknowable remains ; Puritan rejection of Puritan reality-and what about us?
- Voice, country, and class: reapproaching the vernacular. Mather proposes, Wise disposes ; The triumph of the country, earth and conservative vulgarity ; "The simple Cobler" and the masks of Wise, versus Polly Baker, or, humor slips in when theology blinks ; From Wise and Franklin, Mark Twain's triumphant vernacular -- The basis of laughter: what's so funny? How do we read Polly and Tom? ; Affectation, again-and certainty ; Disgust and gentility ; Gentility, ideality, and responses to mystery, Nick Carraway and Jim Doggett ; Mystery within ; Dr. Holland once more, and the plight of the humorless --
- Isbn
- 9780826210951
- Label
- Humor and revelation in American literature : the Puritan connection
- Title
- Humor and revelation in American literature
- Title remainder
- the Puritan connection
- Statement of responsibility
- Pascal Covici, Jr
- Subject
-
- American wit and humor -- History and criticism
- Christian literature, American -- Puritan authors | History and criticism
- Puritan movements in literature
- American literature -- History and criticism
- Revelation in literature
- Wit and humor -- Religious aspects | Christianity
- Puritans -- New England -- Humor
- Language
- eng
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1930-
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Covici, Pascal
- Government publication
- government publication of a state province territory dependency etc
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
- PS430
- LC item number
- .C68 1997
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
-
- American wit and humor
- Christian literature, American
- Wit and humor
- American literature
- Puritan movements in literature
- Puritans
- Revelation in literature
- Label
- Humor and revelation in American literature : the Puritan connection, Pascal Covici, Jr
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 217-222) and index
- Contents
-
- Reluctantly independent: the rattling of chains. A problem of respect ; Genteel and vernacular, Josiah Holland and Mark Twain ; Responses, and intimations of crossing over ; American self-reliance? The case of Hawthorne's Robin ; Melville, the American difference, and Richard Chase -- God's chosen people: the Anglican perspective. Megalomaniacal fantasies... ; Megalomania...with a British accent ; Ossa upon Pelion concluded, and then? ; Britain versus the Bay Colony? Yes...and no -- Certainty: Divine or human?: Bishop Burnet and the matter of choice. Religiously political, politically religious ; Of tolerance, intolerance, and Bishop Fleetwood's country curate ; Toleration, belief, and the power(lessness) of the will --
- The Puritan roots of American humor. Recognitions of the self ; The loneliness of the Solopsist, no laughing matter ; Emerson's saving rejection of the "Noble Doubt" ; Thoreau's recalcitrant individual fires his pistols ; At the heart of it all, the unknowable remains ; Puritan rejection of Puritan reality-and what about us?
- Voice, country, and class: reapproaching the vernacular. Mather proposes, Wise disposes ; The triumph of the country, earth and conservative vulgarity ; "The simple Cobler" and the masks of Wise, versus Polly Baker, or, humor slips in when theology blinks ; From Wise and Franklin, Mark Twain's triumphant vernacular -- The basis of laughter: what's so funny? How do we read Polly and Tom? ; Affectation, again-and certainty ; Disgust and gentility ; Gentility, ideality, and responses to mystery, Nick Carraway and Jim Doggett ; Mystery within ; Dr. Holland once more, and the plight of the humorless --
- Control code
- ocm35627612
- Dimensions
- 25 cm.
- Extent
- ix, 226 p.
- Isbn
- 9780826210951
- Isbn Type
- (alk. paper)
- Lccn
- 96043457
- Label
- Humor and revelation in American literature : the Puritan connection, Pascal Covici, Jr
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 217-222) and index
- Contents
-
- Reluctantly independent: the rattling of chains. A problem of respect ; Genteel and vernacular, Josiah Holland and Mark Twain ; Responses, and intimations of crossing over ; American self-reliance? The case of Hawthorne's Robin ; Melville, the American difference, and Richard Chase -- God's chosen people: the Anglican perspective. Megalomaniacal fantasies... ; Megalomania...with a British accent ; Ossa upon Pelion concluded, and then? ; Britain versus the Bay Colony? Yes...and no -- Certainty: Divine or human?: Bishop Burnet and the matter of choice. Religiously political, politically religious ; Of tolerance, intolerance, and Bishop Fleetwood's country curate ; Toleration, belief, and the power(lessness) of the will --
- The Puritan roots of American humor. Recognitions of the self ; The loneliness of the Solopsist, no laughing matter ; Emerson's saving rejection of the "Noble Doubt" ; Thoreau's recalcitrant individual fires his pistols ; At the heart of it all, the unknowable remains ; Puritan rejection of Puritan reality-and what about us?
- Voice, country, and class: reapproaching the vernacular. Mather proposes, Wise disposes ; The triumph of the country, earth and conservative vulgarity ; "The simple Cobler" and the masks of Wise, versus Polly Baker, or, humor slips in when theology blinks ; From Wise and Franklin, Mark Twain's triumphant vernacular -- The basis of laughter: what's so funny? How do we read Polly and Tom? ; Affectation, again-and certainty ; Disgust and gentility ; Gentility, ideality, and responses to mystery, Nick Carraway and Jim Doggett ; Mystery within ; Dr. Holland once more, and the plight of the humorless --
- Control code
- ocm35627612
- Dimensions
- 25 cm.
- Extent
- ix, 226 p.
- Isbn
- 9780826210951
- Isbn Type
- (alk. paper)
- Lccn
- 96043457
Subject
- American wit and humor -- History and criticism
- Christian literature, American -- Puritan authors | History and criticism
- Puritan movements in literature
- American literature -- History and criticism
- Revelation in literature
- Wit and humor -- Religious aspects | Christianity
- Puritans -- New England -- Humor
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