The University Press of New England
Thomas Jefferson and
the Education of a Citizen
James Gilreath, editor
Thomas Jefferson's writings hold endless fascination for
Americans and, as the international perspective ending this
volume suggests, for thoughtful people worldwide. Here, Liu
Zuochang's assessment of Jefferson's relevance to contemporary
Chinese thinkers joins essays by American scholars on topics such
as education, slavery, and the preparation for citizenship that
underlies a free society as Jefferson perceived it.
Contributors – Benjamin Barber, Holly Brewer, Richard D.
Brown, John Y. Cole, James Gilreath, Donald Grinde, Jr., Michael
Grossberg, Herbert A. Johnson, Ralph Ketcham, Jan Lewis, Liu
Zuochang, Elizabeth Marvick, David N. Mayer, Suzanne W. Morse,
James Oakes, Eugene R. Sheridan, Frank Shuffelton, Jennings
Wagoner, Jr., Douglas L. Wilson, and C. Vann Woodward
JAMES GILREATH, American history specialist for the Rare Book and
Special Collections Division at the Library of Congress from 1980
to 1996, is coauthor of Thomas Jefferson's Library (1989).
Distributed for the Library of Congress
June 1998
400 pp. 2 illus. 7 x 10"
American History
The Puritan Tradition in America, 1620-1730
Alden T. Vaughan, editor
Back in Print
A classic documentary collection on New
England's Puritan roots is once again available, with new
material.
Many students of our national character would agree that, for better or worse, the Puritan tradition had an enormous effect on the assumptions and aspirations of today's Americans. This book tells the story, largely through the participants' own words, of the emergence of that tradition. It provides a broad range of primary documents--religious, political, social, legal, familial, and economic--for an understanding of Puritanism in early New England. Originally published in 1972, it is reissued here with a new introduction and two new documents: extracts from Anne Hutchinson's trial and from John Winthrop's "Experiencia".
"A superb collection of sources about the origins and development of American Puritanism, skillfully edited and carefully chosen. The anthology is perfect for advanced undergraduates in colonial American history courses and in American religious history courses."--Richard W. Cogley, Southern Methodist University
"This is simply the best single collection of documents and readings for undergraduate use. No other book has its scope and breadth. It is well balanced between sermonic, legal, political, and literary documents. Moreover, Vaughan's analytic focus on politics, society, religion, family, and the institution of cultural reproduction provide the maximum flexibility for someone trying to open up the various facets of Puritan New England."--Darren Staloff, City University of New York
Alden Vaughan taught colonial history for many years at Columbia University. His books include Shakespeare's Caliban (1991) and New England Frontier: Puritans and Indians, 1620-1675 (1965).
Library of New England
November 1997
380 pp. 5 x 8.5"
Paper, 0-87451-852-0. $17.95x
Colonial History / Religion / New England
Captivity and Sentiment Cultural Exchange in American Literature, 1682-1861
Michelle Burnham
Examines how traditional dichotomies give way to emergent cultural forms in the literature of captivity. In a radically new interpretation and synthesis of highly popular 18th- and 19th-century genres, Michelle Burnham examines the literature of captivity, and, using Homi Bhabha's concept of interstitiality as a base, provides a valuable redescription of the ambivalent origins of the US national narrative. Stories of colonial captives, sentimental heroines, or fugitive slaves embody a "binary division between captive and captor that is based on cultural, national, or racial difference," but they also transcend these pre-existing antagonistic dichotomies by creating a new social space, and herein lies their emotional power. Beginning from a simple question on why captivity, particularly that of women, so often inspires a sentimental response, Burnham examines how these narratives elicit both sympathy and pleasure. The texts carry such great emotional impact precisely because they "traverse those very cultural, national, and racial boundaries that they seem so indelibly to inscribe. Captivity literature, like its heroines, constantly negotiates zones of contact," and crossing those borders reveals new cultural paradigms to the captive and, ultimately, the reader. Michelle Burnham is Assistant Professor of English at Auburn University. Dartmouth College
July 1997
240 pp. 11 figs. 6 x 9"
Cloth, 0-87451-818-0. $35.00s
Literature / American Studies / Cultural Studies
New Series: Re-Encounters with Colonialism: New Perspectives on the Americas
New Perspectives on the Americas
Mary C. Kelley, Agnes Lugo
Ortiz, Donald Pease,
Ivy
Schweitzer, and Diana Taylor, series editors
Dartmouth College is launching an important new series to re-examine the whole range of colonial encounters in the Americas from a variety of perspectives. Throughout the past century, and most recently in the wake of the Quincentennial, scholars in North and South America have been challenging and gradually reframing the very concept of the "colonial." Re-Encounters with Colonialism has been established to redress the long-held notion that the term colonial refers mainly to Puritan New England.
Re-Encounters with Colonialism provides an interdisciplinary, cross-cultural vehicle for a variety of theoretical and political perspectives on issues such as transculturation, nationality, and nationalism. Rather than emphasizing isolated contexts and countries, Re-Encounters with Colonialism goes beyond old ideological and geographic boundaries to feature theoretical debates that are currently shaping thought about colonial and post-colonial studies, and fosters conversations on race, state, gender, and locale among scholars from different perspectives.
Mary C. Kelley - American History, Dartmouth
College
Agnes Lugo-Ortiz - 19th-Century Latin American Studies, Dartmouth
College
Donald Pease - American Literature, Dartmouth College
Ivy Schweitzer - American Literature, Dartmouth College
Diana Taylor - 20th-Century Latin American & Latino Studies,
Dartmouth College
Series Titles
1.After King Philip's War: Presence and Persistence in Indian New England.
New perspectives on three centuries of Indian presence in New England. The 1676 killing of Metacomet, the tribal leader dubbed "King Philip" by colonists, is commonly seen as a watershed event, marking the end of a bloody war, dissolution of Indian society in New England, and even the disappearance of Native peoples from the region. This collection challenges that assumption, showing that Indians adapted and survived, existing quietly on the fringes of Yankee society, less visible than before but nonetheless retaining a distinct identity and heritage. While confinement on tiny reservations, subjection to increasing state regulation, enforced abandon-ment of traditional dress and means of support, and racist policies did cause dramatic changes, Natives nonetheless managed to maintain their Indianness through customs, kinship, and community. ___"An outstanding, well-timed introduction to the abundance of__ emerging scholarship on post-1676 New England native peoples. in Ne Calloway has selected some of the very best, most innovative work New in this area, and he prefaces the collection with an excellent,nd. concise, highly readable summary of both New England native history before as well as after 1676 and of the scholarly work that has by shaped our understanding of that history."--Neal Salisbury, Smith College Colin G. Calloway is Professor of History and Native American Studies at Dartmouth College. His many books include New Worlds for All (1997) and The American Revolution in Indian Country (1995). UPNE has nd published two of his edited collections, North Country Captives (1992) Dartmouth College July 1997 288 pp. 6 x 9" Paper, 0-87451-819-9. $19.95s Native American Studies / New England Studies
The Calvinist Roots of the Modern Era
Aliki Barnstone, Michael Tomasek Manson, and Carol J. Singley, editors
Multidisciplinary views of Calvinism's
dynamic, diverse, and persistent influence on modern American
literature and thought.
Many of America's philosophical, social, and religious traditions are founded upon Calvinist beliefs, and that heritage inevitably permeates our literature, too. While the debt of 18th- and 19th-century writers to Calvinism as theological doctrine and secular ideology has already been well documented, this collection of essays traces Calvinism's presence in 20th-century literature and demonstrates its impact as psychological construct, cultural institution, and socio-political model. From Pound to Faulkner, Eliot to Wharton, modern American poets, novelists, and film-makers of different religious, ethnic, and regional backgrounds have breathed in the Calvinist atmosphere. With fresh illuminations of the works of Marianne Moore, Willa Cather, Ernest Hemingway, Elizabeth Bishop, Kate Chopin, and others, this book cuts across disciplines, periods, and genres to examine the presence of such Calvinist concepts as election, conversion experiences, duty, sexual repression, and apocalypse. The editors conclude that, rather than being a monolithic force, Calvinism has "instead been dynamic, as different writers redefine and restructure it to fit their purposes and beliefs."
Contributors -- Jonathan Barron, Milton J. Bates, Jane Cocalis, Mutlu Konuk Blasing, Susan Goodman, Rocco Marinaccio, Jeredith Merrin, George Monteiro, John J. Murphy, Loris Mirella, Elsa Nettels, Elisa New, Ivy Schweitzer, Cynthia Griffin Wolff, and the editors
Aliki Barnstone is Assistant Professor of English at Bucknell University. Michael Tomasek Manson is Visiting Assistant Professor of English at Wheaton College in Norton, MA. Carol J. Singley is Associate Professor of English at Rutgers University in Camden, NJ.
June 1997
352 pp. 5 illus. 6 x 9"
Cloth, 0-87451-807-5. $50.00x
Paper, 0-87451-808-3. $25.00s
American Literature / Religious Studies
April 2, 2000