A Concordance to the Major Poems of Edward Taylor
Volume I: A-E, Volume II: F-L, Volume III: M-S, Volume IV: T-Z and Appendices
Raymond Craig
Description
The Concordance to the Major Poems of Edward Taylor is a general use concordance of the work of British colonial and American puritan poet, Edward Taylor (d. 1729). Taylor’s major poems, Gods Determinations and Preparatory Meditations, represent nearly 50 years of poetic production of this devotional poet, whose emphasis on language and linguistic complexity make a concordance an essential tool of scholarship. This keyword-in-context (KWIC) concordance is based on Daniel Patterson’s recent edition, Edward Taylor’s Gods Determinations and Preparatory Meditations (Kent State UP, 2003) and offers users an extensive compilation and sorting of orthographic variants, treatment of homographs as discrete words, and an index of nonsubstantive words and other words typically excluded from such works.
Reviews
“. . . Craig has taken care to cross-reference, contextualize, and even distinguish semantic values in all the words in Taylor’s major poems. . . . Surely it will have its place in the collections of every research library . . . – Prof. Edward M. Griffin, University of Minnesota
“The various breakdowns within the entries, the groupings of alternative spellings, and the use of frequent cross-references all enhance the usefulness of the Concordance. These features nicely accommodate Taylor’s verbal tics and ambiguities—no mean feat when dealing with a poet whose language is as wide-ranging and idiosyncratic as his.” - Prof. Jeffrey Hammond, St. Mary’s College of Maryland
Table of Contents
Volume One
Introduction
User’s Guide
Works Cited
Key to Reference Codes
Acknowledgments
Concordance to the Major Poems of Edward Taylor (A–E)
Volume Two
Key to Reference Codes
Concordance to the Major Poems of Edward Taylor (F–L)
Volume Three
Key to Reference Codes
Concordance to the Major Poems of Edward Taylor (M–S)
Volume Four
Key to Reference Codes
Concordance to the Major Poems of Edward Taylor (T–Z)
Appendix A: Words Omitted from Main Concordance
Appendix B: Biblical Citations Excluded from the Main Concordance
ISBN10: 0-7734-4943-4 ISBN13: 978-0-7734-4943-5 Pages: 1680 Year: 2008
Series: hors série Number: 0
Subject Areas: American - Literature, Last Name - T - Poetry, Religion in Art & Literature - Religion,
Imprint: Edwin Mellen Press
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The Cultural “Other” in Nineteenth-Century Travel Narratives: How the United States and Latin America Described Each Other
Miguel A. Cabañas
Description
This book explores issues of representation and cultural negotiation in nineteenth-century travel narratives, focusing on writers from the United States who traveled to Latin America and Latin American writers who traveled to North America. Such a cross-cultural study of travel literature reveals the discursive processes of national formation in both the United States and Latin America. This book contains eight black and white photographs.
Reviews
“Miguel Cabañas, by delving with vigor and depth into the complexities of travel narrative discourse, has produced a study that clearly belongs to this scholarly tradition.” - Dr. Miguel Gomes, Professor of Spanish and Comparative Literature, University of Connecticut“Miguel A. Cabañas book is an exciting example of the new wave of ‘inter-American’ or hemispheric American studies, a trend in truly comparative research undertaken by scholars equally knowledgeable in U.S. and Latin American cultures.” - Dr. Robert McKee Irwin, Associate Professor of Spanish, University of California - Davis “Professor Cabañas is particularly attentive to the ways in which these nineteenth-century travelers engaged the conventions of travel writing for the purposes of nation-building, and how their travel narratives served imperial purposes, more often intentionally than not.” - Dr. Lois Parkinson Zamora, Professor of English, University of Houston
Table of Contents
Foreword by Miguel Gomes, Ph.D.
Acknowledgements
Introduction
1 Putting the World in Order: John Lloyd Stephen’s Narration of America
2 North of Eden: Romance and Conquest in Fanny Calderón de la Barca’s Life in Mexico
3 In Search of “America”: The Rhetoric of Travel in Domingo Faustino Sarmiento’s Viajes en Europa, África i América
4 Traveling with Your “Type”: Mr. and Mrs. Louis Agassiz’s A Journey in Brazil
5 With a Colt, a Brush, and a Pen: George Catlin’s Preservation of the Indian
6 Wandering through the House: Fanny Chambers Gooch’s Face to Face with the Mexicans
7 Democratic Degradation of the New World and Spanish American Regeneration in Marti’s Escenas Norteamericanas
8 Conclusion
Bibliography
Index
About Miguel A. Cabañas
Dr. Miguel A. Cabañas is Assistant Professor of Spanish at Michigan State University. He received his Ph.D. in Comparative Literary and Cultural Studies from the University of Connecticut.
ISBN10: 0-7734-5240-0 ISBN13: 978-0-7734-5240-4 Pages: 336 Year: 2008
Imprint: Edwin Mellen Press
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A Beginning of Collegiate Education West of the Appalachians, 1795-1833: The Achievement of Dr. Charles Coffin of Greeneville College and East Tennessee College
James Patrick
Description
This book chronicles the life and work of Charles Coffin, who, in the transitional period between 18th century Enlightenment rationalism and 19th romanticism, set out in hopes of transplanting the New England culture he grew up with to the southwestern frontier and labored to establish a Harvard-like college in Greeneville in East Tennessee. The educational theory of this institution, as is implied in surviving evidence, assumes that the purpose of collegiate learning was the fostering of a class of gentlemen who would form a leadership for their communities by practicing their professions and occupying positions of political influence. Charting Coffin’s successes and trials at Greeneville, his presidency at the East Tennessee College in Knoxville, his later return to Greeneville and the merging of his college with another competing institution, this study illustrates the life of a man who sought to establish Atlantic seaboard culture and a classical collegiate curriculum in the American frontier.
Reviews
“The State of Tennessee was but four years old when he arrived in the hamlet of Greeneville in 1800. Like his Puritan forebears, Charles Coffin was on ‘an errand into the wilderness’ to bring Christianity and education to the men and women on the expanding frontier. Thanks to Dr. James Patrick’s years of labor and prodigious research, at last we have a book-length biography of this extraordinary preacher, teacher, and college president.” – (from the Foreword) Professor William Bruce Wheeler, University of Tennessee
About James Patrick
Dr. James Patrick is the Chancellor of the College Saint Thomas More in Fort Worth, Texas.
ISBN10: 0-7734-5447-0 ISBN13: 978-0-7734-5447-7 Pages: 416 Year: 2007
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A Just Defense of the Natural Freedom of Slaves: All Slaves Should be Free (1682) by Epifanio de Moirans: A Critical Edition and Translation of Servi Liberi Seu Naturalis Mancipiorum Libertatis Iusta Defensio by Epifanio de Moirans
Edward R. Sunshine, editor and translator
Awarded the Adele Mellen Prize for Distinguished Contribution to Scholarship
Description
This book offers a critical Latin text with English, facing-page translation of Epifanio de Moirans’s Servi Liberi seu Naturalis Mancipiorum Libertatis Iusta Defensio. The events described in Servi Liberi occurred in Havana, Cuba toward the end of 1681 and the beginning of 1682. It was then that the author, de Moirans, a Frenchman from Burgundy, along with Francisco José de Jaca, a Spaniard from Aragon and fellow Capuchin, did what was most impossible and subversive at the time: he condemned the very institution of slavery. The only extant copy of Servi Liberi is in Seville’s Archivo General de Indias, which, though formerly a stock exchange, became the official depository for Spanish colonial documents over two hundred years ago. Servi Liberi has survived because of the Archive; had it perished, we would have no knowledge of these events, no awareness of these campaigns, and no idea of how two Capuchins struggled with all the established political, economic, and religious interests of their time to change the widespread and destructive practice of slavery.
Reviews
“. . . the reading of this text is not only an enriching exploration of the past, but also a conscientization in the present: if Christians in the past conveniently rationalized the existence of slavery for their own advantage, Christians in the present may be equally tempted to rationalize the most immoral behavior in the name of scientific advancement, cultural superiority, economic prosperity, political convenience, social status, etc. But is this not the same type of human arrogance that in a former era condoned slavery? In response to such a basic question, this book should make its mark not only as a scholarly monograph, but also as an examination of conscience.” – (from the Preface) Professor John T. Ford, C.S.C., Catholic University of America
“Dr. Edward Sunshine has made a unique and very significant contribution to knowledge and scholarship in this book. Epifanio de Moirans, in 1682 in Havana, wrote a treatise against slavery strongly supporting the emancipation of slaves, refuting the arguments of other theologians who defended slavery, and even calling for restitution to the slaves for the injustice and the loss they suffered. Working with the only extant copy of Moiran’s manuscript, Dr. Sunshine has given us a critical Latin text and a fluent English translation.” – Dr. Charles E. Curran, Elizabeth Scurlock University Chair of Human Values, Southern Methodist University
About Edward R. Sunshine
Dr. Edward R. Sunshine received his Ph.D. from the Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley, California, and is currently Associate Professor of Theology in the Department of Theology and Philosophy at Barry University. He teaches and writes in various areas of Christian Ethics, including sexual and social morality, marriage and family, and Catholic social teaching.
ISBN10: 0-7734-5504-3 ISBN13: 978-0-7734-5504-7 Pages: 532 Year: 2007
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The New-York Magazine, Or Literary Repository (1790-1797): A Record of the Contents with Notes on Authors and Sources Vol. 1
Edited and compiled by Edward William Pitcher
Description
The three volumes that make up this work are the records of the contents of The New-York Magazine from the years 1790 to 1797. This study contributes to ordering the data and easing the ongoing work of assessing the worth of this magazine. Its intention is to make further examination of The New-York Magazine easier and to parade facts useful to students of the history of magazines or of popular culture.
Reviews
“ ... it is expected that the data gathered [in this work] will birth new facts, add to knowledge, and improve understanding [of The New-York Magazine]. ...” – From the Introduction
About Edward Pitcher
Dr. Edward W. R. Pitcher is Professor Emeritus at the University of Alberta, and the Editor of The Edwin Mellen Press’ reference series “Studies in British and American Magazines.”
ISBN10: 0-7734-5605-8 ISBN13: 978-0-7734-5605-1 Pages: 344 Year: 2006
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The New-York Magazine, Or Literary Repository (1790-1797): A Record of the Contents with Notes on Authors and Sources Vol. 2
by Pitcher, Edward W. Year: 2006 ISBN10: 0-7734-5603-1 ISBN13: 978-0-7734-5603-7
The New-York Magazine, Or Literary Repository (1790-1797): A Record of the Contents with Notes on Authors and Sources Vol. 3 by Pitcher, Edward W.
Year: 2006 ISBN10: 0-7734-5607-4 ISBN13: 978-0-7734-5607-5The Evolution of a Quaker Community: Middletown Meeting, Bucks County, Pennsylvania 1750-1850
Martha Paxson Grundy
Description
There is a deep and troublesome dilemma facing believers in a variety of minority religions and sects: how to resolve the demands of their faith and yet participate in the larger community. In Biblical language, the question is how to be in the world but not of it. The Religious Society of Friends in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Pennsylvania was one such religious group. This book explores the dilemma by means of a micro-study of one congregation (monthly meeting) and the seventeen surname families that were part of that meeting for one hundred years. The individuals in those families inevitably faced choices and made decisions between the requirements of their faith and the demands and opportunities of the dominant culture.
Between 1750 and 1850, the period studied here, a number of major events took place that tested Friends. These include, among others, the Revolutionary War, economic growth and depression, the evangelical revival movement, Jacksonian democracy with its accompanying political and social changes, the treatment of Native Americans, and reform movements ranging from abolition to temperance. There were also major movements within the Religious Society of Friends: a reform impulse that included antislavery, and a major division or separation in 1827. The Religious Society was both a stable and a dynamic force as it and its individual members sought to chart their course through the buffeting, challenges, and opportunities posed by the larger society and within their own group.
The in-depth analysis over time of individuals within the matrix of their family and faith community provides insight not usually gained from aggregate data. For example, family patterns are seen to have a much larger influence than most studies indicate. This is, of course, consonant with our own personal experience.
There are chapters that deal with a series of major and less obvious issues between 1750 and 1850. A reader interested in a more nuanced exploration of them would benefit from the insights of this book. Issues include the mid-seventeenth century reform movement within the Religious Society of Friends, including antislavery. There is an interesting examination of the Revolutionary War and Friends’ peace testimony as played out among the individuals who were simultaneously impacted by the reform movement. The book explores the way Friends, individually and corporately, dealt with the triumph of market capitalism.
Reviews
“In this work, Dr. Martha Paxson Grundy gives us an unparalleled glimpse into the evolution of a Quaker community. For a generation now, community studies have been a staple of American historiography, testing broad theories about economic change or political conflict or gender roles through intensive, focused study of a particular locale. Such studies have revolutionized our understanding of colonial America, the western frontier, and the dynamics of slave communities, to name but a few examples ... This work raises questions that are of interest to scholars both of Quakerism and of broader American history. It does so with careful attention to detail, made possible by a wealth of documentation, and with an eye for larger questions of interpretation ...” – (from the Preface) Professor Thomas D. Hamm, Earlham College
“ ... Dr. Grundy’s use of the concept of faith development using M. Scott Peck’s four stages gives a new tool for viewing Friends’ actions. In particular, it is very helpful to view the different approaches to the 18th century reform movement through this lens. Her technique of following one well-identified set of families over time humanizes theory and gives a reality check on what we can and cannot say for sure about the causes of change ...” – Dr. Margery Post Abbott, Independent Scholar
“ ... What Dr. Grundy has done with her detailed and nuanced analysis of a single Quaker community in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, is show the interplay between religion and broader social forces, and how Quakers variously responded to the stress of political change, war, religious controversy and reform movements, particularly anti-slavery, in the century between 1750 and 1850 ... This study has major implications for Quaker history. The analysis of Quaker reactions to internal reformation in the 1750s draws on and tests the ideas of earlier works by Jack Marietta, J. William Frost and Jean Soderlund ...” – Christopher Densmore, Curator, Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
About Martha Paxson Grundy
Dr. Martha Paxson Grundy, an independent scholar, completed her Ph.D. in American History at Case Western Reserve University. Her published writing includes an edited and annotated version of David Ferris’ memoirs, two monographs, contributions to 9 edited collections, 28 articles, and over 40 book reviews.
ISBN10: 0-7734-5568-X ISBN13: 978-0-7734-5568-9 Pages: 376 Year: 2006
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