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Ethics in literature --- Ethiek in de literatuur --- Ethique dans la littérature --- Narration (Rhetoric) --- Narration (Rhétorique) --- Narrative writing --- Verhaal (Retoriek) --- English fiction --- 19th century --- History and criticism --- Romances --- Adaptations --- Popular literature --- Great Britain --- United States --- American fiction --- Fiction --- Technique

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Puritan American writers faced a dilemma: they had an obligation to use language as a celebration of divine artistry, but they could not allow their writing to become an iconic graven image of authorial self-idolatry. In this study William Scheick explores one way in which William Bradford, Nathaniel Ward, Anne Bradstreet, Urian Oakes, Edward Taylor, and Jonathan Edwards mediated these conflicting imperatives. They did so, he argues, by creating moments in their works when they and their audience could hesitate and contemplate the central paradox of language: its capacity to intimate both conc

American literature --- Puritan authors --- History and criticism --- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 --- New England --- Christian literature [American ] --- Puritans --- Intellectual life --- Rhetoric --- 1500-1800 --- Bradford, William --- Criticism and interpretation --- Morton, Thomas --- Mather, Richard --- Taylor, Edward --- Bradstreet, Anne Dudley --- Edwards, Jonathan --- Bellamy, Edward --- Fiske, Nathan --- English language --- Christian literature, American --- English literature --- Agrarians (Group of writers) --- Rhetoric. --- Intellectual life. --- History and criticism. --- Germanic languages

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The half-blood -- half Indian, half white -- is a frequent figure in the popular fiction of nineteenth-century America, for he (or sometimes she) served to symbolize many of the conflicting cultural values with which American society was then wrestling. In literature, as in real life the half-blood was a product of the frontier, embodying the conflict between wilderness and civilization that haunted and stirred the American imagination. What was his identity? Was he indeed ""half Indian, half white, and half devil"" -- or a bright link between the races from which would emerge a new American p

Miscegenation in literature. --- Indians of North America --- Indians in literature. --- American fiction --- Guineas (Mixed bloods, United States) --- Racially mixed people --- Indians of Central America in literature --- Indians of Mexico in literature --- Indians of North America in literature --- Indians of South America in literature --- Indians of the West Indies in literature --- Mixed descent. --- History and criticism. --- Mixed bloods --- Miscegenation (Racist theory) in literature.

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Edwards, Jonathan,

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