Puritanism and Its Discontents

Puritanism and Its Discontents
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Publisher : University of Delaware Press
Total Pages : 272
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ISBN-10 : 0874138175
ISBN-13 : 9780874138177
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Book Synopsis Puritanism and Its Discontents by : Laura Lunger Knoppers

Download or read book Puritanism and Its Discontents written by Laura Lunger Knoppers and published by University of Delaware Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By tracing core discontents, the essays restore the anxiety-ridden radical nature of Puritanism, helping to account for its force in the seventeenth century and the popular and scholarly interest that it continues to evoke. Innovative and challenging in scope and argument, the volume should be of interest to scholars of early modern British and American history, literature, culture, and religion."--BOOK JACKET.


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