Cambridge University Press

The Cambridge Introduction to Early American Literature

Emory Elliott

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Presenting a literary history of American writing (from 1492 to 1820) and a concise social and cultural history, Emory Elliott traces the impact of race, gender, and ethnic conflict on early American culture. He explores the centrality of American Puritanism in the formation of a distinctively American literature. This highly comprehensive study is essential reading for students of the literature, history and culture of early America.

Contents
Acknowledgments
Preface
1. Brave New World
2. The language of Salem Witchcraft
3. The dream of a Christian utopia
4. Personal narrative and history
5. Poetry
6. The Jeremiad
7. Reason and revivalism
8. Toward the formation of a United States
Afterword
Bibliography.

Publication is planned for September 2002
Hardback | 194 pages | ISBN: 052181717X
c. $55.00
Paperback (Hardback) | 194 pages | ISBN: 052152041X
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Democracy, Revolution, and Monarchism in Early American Literature

Paul Downes

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Paul Downes offers a radical revision of some of the most cherished elements of early American cultural identity. The founding texts and writers of the Republic, he claims, did not wholly displace what they claimed to oppose. Instead, Downes argues, the entire construction of a Republican public sphere actually borrowed and adapted central features of Monarchical rule. Downes discovers this theme not only in a wide range of American novels, but also in readings of a variety of political documents that created the philosophical culture of the American revolutionary period.

Contents
Introduction: the spell of democracy
1. Monarchophobia: reading the mock executions of 1776
2. Crèvecoeur’s revolutionary loyalism
3. Citizen subjects: the memoirs of Stephen Burroughs and Benjamin Franklin
4. An epistemology of the ballot box: Brockden Brown’s secrets
5. Luxury, effeminacy, corruption: Irving and the gender of democracy
Afterword: The revolution’s last word.

Publication is planned for August 2002 | Hardback | 251 pages | ISBN: 0521813395
c. $55.00

Christian Humanism and the Puritan Social Order

Margo Todd

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Traditional views of puritan social thought have done a great injustice to the intellectual history of the sixteenth century. They have presented puritans as creators of a disciplined, progressive, ultimately revolutionary theory of social order. The origins of modern society and politics are laid at the feet of zealous English protestants whose only intellectual debts are owed to Calvinist theology and the Bible. Professor Todd demonstrates that this view is fundamentally ahistorical. She places puritanism back in its own historical milieu, showing puritans as the heirs of a complex intellectual legacy, derived no less from the Renaissance than from the Reformation. The focus is on puritan social thought as part of a sixteenth-century intellectual consensus. This study traces the continuity of Christian humanism in the social thought of English protestants.

Contents
Preface
Abbreviations
1. Introduction
2. Christian humanism as social ideology
3. The transmission of Christian humanist ideas
4. The spiritualized household
5. Work, wealth and welfare
6. Conscience and the great chain of being
7. The conservative reaction: Trent, Lambeth and the demise of the humanist consensus
Bibliography
Index.

Publication is planned for August 2002 | Paperback (Hardback) | 303 pages | ISBN: 0521892287
$30.00

Exile and Kingdom: History and Apocalypse in the Puritan Migration to America

Avihu Zakai

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By analyzing the ideological origins of the Puritan migration to America, the author shows how Puritans believed that their removal to New England fulfilled prophetic apocalyptic and eschatological visions. Based on a close reading of Puritan texts, the book explains how Puritans interpreted their migration as a prophetic revelatory event in the context of a sacred, ecclesiastical history, and why they considered it as the climax of the history of salvation and redemption.

Reviews

"These chapters are the most sustained examination yet written of the Puritan concept of history as an apocalyptic event occurring outside of chronological time." Historical Journal of Massachusetts

"This is an exceedingly scholarly work which attempts to explain the religious or ideological origins of the Puritan migraton to America during the early seventeenth century....this work is a significant study in the history of ideas....One of the chief merits of Dr. Zakai's book is its treatment of the Puritan eschatological and apocalyptic visions in the context of this Judaic-Christian tradition and in a meaningful and well-constructed conceptual framework....Exile and Kingdom is worthy addition to the studies of Puritan eschatological and apocalyptic visions in early modern England." Catholic Historical Review

"Zakai has provided a clear exposition of the Puritan adoption of apocalyptic theology and how that vision contributed to the establishment of New England. On the whole our historiography benefits from his contribution to the history of ideas." Albion

"...there is much to praise in this book. Its strength lies in close and critical readings of key texts in the millennial tradition. Zakai's mastery of these obscure documents is impressive; his argument for their significance in the American context is cogent. Further, Zakai's distinction between the two models of migration will most certainly prove helpful to students of Puritan ideology and the politics of American identity." Janice Knight, Journal of American History

"...an intriguing, challenging book with a close textual analysis and a focus on 'geographies of the mind' that bear important implications for understanding early Purital society and its putative theocracy." Jon Butler, Journal of Interdisciplinary History

Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. The creation of sacred time
2. The creation of sacred space I
3. The creation of sacred space II
4. The creation of sacred space III
5. The creation of sacred errand
6. The creation of a sacred Christian society
7. The creation of a holy Christian commonwealth
Index.

Publication is planned for August 2002 | Paperback (Hardback) | 274 pages | ISBN: 0521521424
$28.00

The Wealth of Nations Rediscovered: Integration and Expansion in American Financial Markets, 1780-1850

Robert E. Wright

Robert E. Wright portrays the development of a modern
financial sector--including a central bank, a national monetary
system, a network of financial intermediaries, and efficient
capital markets--as the driving force behind America's
economic transition from agricultural colony to industrial
juggernaut. He applies the economic theory of information
asymmetry to understandings of early U.S. financial
development, expanding on recent scholarship of finance-led
economic growth. The book builds upon many of Adam
Smith's lesser-known insights into financial relationships.

SUBJECT:
19C American history

May 2002
272 Pages
22 tables

Hardback: 0-521-81237-2
The Cambridge Companion to Nineteenth-Century American Women’s Writing

Edited by Dale M. Bauer, Philip Gould

Providing an overview of the history of writing by women in the period, this companion examines contextually the work of a variety of women writers, including Harriet Beecher Stowe, Rebecca Harding Davis and Louisa May Alcott. The volume provides several valuable tools for students, including a chronology of works and suggestions for further reading.

Contributors

Dale Bauer, Philip Gould, Rosemarie Zagarri, Dana Nelson, Stephanie Smith, Kathryn Zabelle Derounian-Stodola, Elizabeth Petrino, Shirley Samuels, Susan Griffin, Priscilla Wald, Frederika Teute, Gail Smith, Yolanda Pierce, Lisa Long, Sandra Zagarell, Jasmine Griffin, Mary Kelley

Contents

Introduction Dale Bauer and Philip Gould
Part I. Historical and Theoretical Backgrounds: 1. The post colonial culture of early American women’s writing Rosemarie Zagarri
2. Women in public Dana Nelson
3. Antebellum politics and women’s writing Stephanie Smith
Part II. Genre, Tradition and Innovation: 4. Captivity and the literary imagination Kathryn Zabelle Derounian-Stodola
5. Nineteenth-century American women’s poetry Elizabeth Petrino
6. Women at war Shirley Samuels
7. Women, anti-Catholicism, and narrative in nineteenth-century America Susan Griffin
8. Immigration and assimilation in nineteenth-century American women’s writing Priscilla Wald
Part III. Case Studies: 9. The uses of writing in Margaret Bayard Smith’s New Nation Frederika Teute
10. The sentimental novel: the example of Harriet Beecher Stowe Gail Smith
11. African-American women’s spiritual narratives Yolanda Pierce
12. The post-bellum writing of Rebecca Harding Davis and Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Lisa Long
13. Elizabeth Stoddard’s The Morgesons Sandra Zagarell
14. Minnie’s Sacrifice: Frances Ellen Watkins Harper’s narrative of citizenship Jasmine Griffin
Conclusion Mary Kelley.

December 2001 | Paperback (Hardback) | 366 pages 3 half-tones | ISBN: 0521669758
$22.00

The Bible, Protestantism, and the Rise of Natural Science

Peter Harrison

In this book Peter Harrison examines the role played by the
Bible in the emergence of natural science. He shows how both
the contents of the Bible, and more particularly the way it was
interpreted, had a profound influence on conceptions of nature
from the third century to the seventeenth. The rise of modern
science is linked to the Protestant approach to texts, an
approach which spelt an end to the symbolic world of the Middle
Ages and established the conditions for the scientific
investigation and technological exploitation of nature.


SUBJECT:
Christian theology

November 2001
325 Pages

Paperback
0-521-00096-3
$22.95
The Cultural Politics of Sugar: Caribbean Slavery and Narratives of Colonialism

Keith A. Sandiford

Keith Sandiford's study examines the importance of sugar as a
central metaphor in the work of six influential authors of the
colonial West Indies. Sugar, he argues, became a focus for
cultural desires as well as a hard fact of the Caribbean's
political economy. Sandiford defines this metaphorical turn as
a trope of "negotiation" that organizes the structure and
content of the narratives. Based on extensive historical
knowledge of the period and recent postcolonial theory, this
book suggests the possibilities negotiation offers in the
continuing recovery of West Indian intellectual history.

SUBJECT: Literary theory

July 2000 228 Pages

Hardback 0-521-64233-7
$65.00
The Creation of America: Through Revolution to Empire

Francis Jennings

From the Publisher:

This alternative history of he American Revolution portrays the colonists as conquerors and their revolution as a rebellion over control of
conquests. In contrast to the usual views of the Revolution, here the colonists' rhetoric about liberty and virtue is seen as war propaganda to
disguise disputes over political power. None of the revolutionary leaders intended the nation to be democratic, and none was opposed to empire. Rather, their aim was to create their own empire independent of Britain, The author supports his claims with much documented detail, including information on the involuntary participation of Native Americans and black in addition to the usual players.


Format: Hardcover, 400pp.
ISBN: 0521662559
September 2000

A House Dividing: Economic Development in Pennsylvania and Virginia Before the Civil War

John Majewski

Professor Majewski compares Virginia and Pennsylvania to explain how slavery
undermined the development of the southern economy. In the beginning of the
nineteenth century, residents in each state financed transportation improvements to
raise land values and spur commercial growth. However, by the 1830s, Philadelphia
capitalists began financing Pennsylvania's railroad network, building integrated
systems that reached the Midwest. Virginia's railroads remained a collection of lines
without western connections. The lack of a major city that could provide capital and
traffic for large-scale railroads was the weakness of Virginia's slave economy.

CONTENTS

Chapter One; Developmental Corporations in a Slave-Labor Society; Chapter Two;
Developmental Corporations in a Free-Labor Society; Chapter Three; Railroads and
Local Development; Chapter Four; The Local Politics of Market Development;
Chapter Five; Urban Capital and the Superiority of Pennsylvania's Transportation
Network; Chapter Six; Why Antebellum Virginians Never Developed a Big City

April 2000
240 Pages
23 tables

Hardback
0-521-59023-X
$49.95

The American Puritan Elegy: A Literary and Cultural Study

Jeffrey A. Hammond

Jeffrey Hammond''s study of the funeral elegies of early New England reassesses a
body of poems whose importance in their own time has been obscured by almost total
neglect in ours. Hammond reconstructs the historical, theological and cultural contexts
of these poems to demonstrate how they responded to Puritan views on a specific
process of mourning. The elegies emerge, he argues, as performative scripts that
consoled readers by shaping their experience. They shed new light on the emotional
dimension of Puritanism and the important role of ritual in Puritan culture.

CONTENTS

Introduction; 1. Monuments enduring and otherwise; 2. Toward an anthropology of
Puritan reading; 3. Weep for yourselves; the Puritan theology of mourning; 4. This
potent fence: the holy sin of grief; 5. Lord, is it I?: Christic saints and apostolic
mourners; 6. Diffusing all by pattern: the reading of saintly lives; Epilogue:
aestheticizing loss.

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Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture
May 2000
248 Pages

Hardback
0-521-66245-1
$59.95

Romanticism and Slave Narratives: Transatlantic Testimonies

Helen Thomas

Helen Thomas' study opens a new avenue for Romanticism by exploring connections
with literature produced by slaves, slave owners, abolitionists and radical dissenters
between 1770 and 1830. In the first major attempt to relate canonical Romantic texts
to writings of the African diaspora, she investigates English literary Romanticism in
the context of a transatlantic culture, and African culture in the context of
eighteenth-century Britain. In so doing, she reveals an intertextual dialogue between
two diverse yet equally rich cultural spheres, and their corresponding systems of
thought, epistemology and expression.

CONTENTS

Introduction; 1. The English slave trade and abolitionism; 2. Radical dissent and
spiritual autobiography: Joanna Southcott, John Newton and William Cowper; 3.
Romanticism and abolitionism: Mary Wollstonecraft, William Blake, Samuel Taylor
Coleridge and William Wordsworth; 4. Cross-cultural contact: John Stedman,
Thomas Jefferson and the slaves; 5. The diasporic identity: language and the
paradigms of liberation; 6. The early slave narratives: Jupiter Hammon, John Marrant
and Ottobah Gronniosaw; 7. Phyllis Wheatley: poems and letters; 8. Olaudah
Equiano's Interesting Narrative; 9. Robert Wedderburn and mulatto discourse.

May 2000
347 Pages
5 halftones

Hardback
0-521-66234-6
$59.95

The Cambridge History of the Native Peoples of the Americas


Now complete, The Cambridge History of the Native Peoples of the Americas is the
first comprehensive survey of the history of the indigenous inhabitants of the Western
Hemisphere. The work's combination of archaeology, anthropology, and history
raises new and important questions for scholars in the field, while also promoting a
better understanding of Native American history by historians and anthropologists
whose main concerns lie elsewhere. Volume I provides a comprehensive history of the
native peoples of North America from their arrival in the Western Hemisphere to the
present. It describes how indigenous peoples have dealt with the environmental
diversity of North America and have responded to the different European colonial
regimes and national governments that have established themselves in recent centuries.
Volume II gives an authoritative overview of the important native civilizations of the
Mesoamerican area, beginning with archaeological discussions of paleoindian, archaic
and preclassic societies and continuing to the present. Volume III: South America, is
the first major survey of research on the indigenous peoples of South America from
the earliest peopling of the continent to the present since Julian Steward's Handbook
of South American Indians was published half a century ago.CONTRIBUTORS

SERIES NAME:

Cambridge History of the Native Peoples of the Americas

SUBJECT:

History of native American peoples

August 2000
4154 Pages
89 halftones, 86 line
diagrams, 133 maps, 29 tables

Hardback Set
0-521-79054-9
$400.00

August 9 , 2002