American Literature and the New Puritan Studies

摘要

The essays collected in American Literature and the New Puritan Studies are mostly thought-provoking and insightful, presenting a fresh direction for Puritan studies as a multi-faceted, transnational subject grounded in the under-explored data of its material culture. As the editor Bryce Traister indicates in his informative introduction, the collection 'assumes a pragmatic view' of various experiences that had been hitherto characterized as separate categories of secular and religious.