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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      21 January 2010
      10 May 1990
      ISBN:
      9780511570483
      9780521372374
      9780521107013
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511570483
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.508kg, 254 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (229 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.38kg, 256 Pages
      • Series:
      Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture (41)
      Subjects:
      Literature, Area Studies, American Literature, American Studies, Literary Theory
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    Series:
    Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture (41)
    Subjects:
    Literature, Area Studies, American Literature, American Studies, Literary Theory
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    This book suggests an interpretation of the characteristic qualities of Scottish and American literatures. Considering the self-consciously different stance which sets them apart from English literature, the author develops the constituents of the 'puritan-provincial vision': a particular way of looking at life and man's relationship to what lies beyond himself. The book begins with the writings of Calvin and culminates in detailed comparisons of individual works of Scottish and American nineteenth-century prose, questioning the literary and human consequences of this vision through theological, philosophical, political and literary contexts. This puritan-provincial vision is not exclusive to Scottish and American literature so the features discussed here will interest those concerned with other literatures written in English.

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    "Manning's thoughtful critique shows how contradictory attitudes can arise out of, and in reaction to, a common adherence to absolutes. Her Scottish/American pairings, Home/Edwards, Smith and Jefferson, and so on--are strategically brilliant." London Review of Books

    "Manning succeeds admirably in conducting an argument that is both ambitious and bright with surprise." Terence Martin, American Literature

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