Perry Miller (1905–1963)
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The Great Awakening: documents illustrating the crisis and its consequences (1967) — Redaktör — 65 exemplar
Major Writers of America II: Dickinson, Mark Twain, James, Adams, Crane, Dreiser, O'Neill, Frost, Anderson, Fitzgerald, (1962) 19 exemplar
Major Writers of America I: Bradford, Taylor, Franklin, Edwards, Irving, Cooper, Bryant, Poe, Emerson, Thoreau,… (1962) 17 exemplar
Margaret Fuller, American Romantic: Selections from Her Writings and Correspondence (1963) — Redaktör — 16 exemplar
The New England mind 2 exemplar
Declension in a Bible commonwealth 2 exemplar
Perry Miller set of 4 volumes: The New England Mind: The 17th Century; From Colony to Province; Errand into the… (1954) 1 exemplar
Signet Classics; The Sketch Book (CP101) 1 exemplar
Errand Into the Darkness 1 exemplar
Legal Mind in America 1 exemplar
Major Writers of America - 2 Volume Set 1 exemplar
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A Sense of History: The Best Writing from the Pages of American Heritage (1985) — Bidragsgivare — 463 exemplar
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- Miller, Perry G. E.
- Födelsedag
- 1905-02-25
- Avled
- 1963-12-09
- Kön
- male
- Nationalitet
- USA
- Födelseort
- Chicago, Illinois, USA
- Dödsort
- Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
- Bostadsorter
- Chicago, Illinois, USA (birth)
Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA - Utbildning
- University of Chicago
- Yrken
- professor
- Organisationer
- Harvard University
Office of Strategic Services
Bread Loaf School of English - Priser och utmärkelser
- Pulitzer Prize (History, 1966)
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- 2,650
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- #9,690
- Betyg
- 3.9
- Recensioner
- 7
- ISBN
- 57
It is indeed a different world in the sense of academic sociology, but also in terms of the types of things that interest scholars. As Hall points out in his "On Common Ground," the interest in social history of the 1960s and 70s certainly refocused the profession away from the close textual exegesis of Perry Miller's New England Mind. As social history came into fashion, so intellectual history went out. Even with the literary turn of the 80s and 90s, when we returned to the study of the Mathers' writings, it is more to understand their relationship with the popular press than it is to probe the depths of Calvinist - Puritan intellectual continuities. Within New England Studies, the impact of Gender (masculinity as well as femininity) have impacted our view of the clergy and interactions with the laity as they changed over time. See C Dayton (Taking the Trade). Today we celebrate difference, division and dissention. We sing with Walt Whitman from Leaves of Grass ... "Do I contradict myself? So I contradict myself. I am large, I contain multitudes" And we seek out the sources of social and cultural contest. We glory in our differences and in the genius of America in containing all of this ...… (mer)