TY - BOOK ID - 1306561 TI - The Puritan-provincial vision : Scottish and American literature in the nineteenth century PY - 1990 SN - 0521372372 0521107016 0511570481 9780521372374 9780521107013 PB - Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, DB - UniCat KW - English literature KW - Thematology KW - anno 1800-1899 KW - Scottish literature KW - American literature KW - Comparative literature KW - Puritan movements in literature KW - Regionalism in literature KW - Littérature écossaise KW - Littérature américaine KW - Littérature comparée KW - Puritanisme dans la littérature KW - Littérature régionale KW - History and criticism KW - Scottish and American KW - American and Scottish KW - Histoire et critique KW - Ecossaise et américaine KW - Américaine et écossaise KW - Literature, Comparative KW - Littérature écossaise KW - Littérature américaine KW - Littérature comparée KW - Puritanisme dans la littérature KW - Littérature régionale KW - Ecossaise et américaine KW - Américaine et écossaise KW - History and criticism. KW - Arts and Humanities KW - Literature KW - Literature, Comparative - Scottish and American KW - Scottish literature - 19th century - History and criticism KW - American literature - 19th century - History and criticism KW - Literature, Comparative - American and Scottish KW - Puritan movements in literature. KW - Regionalism in literature. KW - Scottish authors KW - Scottish and American. KW - American and Scottish. KW - 820 KW - 82 KW - Engelse literatuur KW - Literatuur. Algemene literatuurwetenschap KW - Philology KW - Scots literature KW - British literature UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:1306561 AB - 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. ER -