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049			_aMAIN
100	1		_aLeise, Christopher, _d1978- _eauthor.
245	1	4	_aThe story upon a hill : _bthe Puritan myth in contemporary American fiction / _cChristopher Leise.
260			_aTuscaloosa : _bUniversity Alabama Press, _c2017.
264		4	_c©20
300			_a1 online resource
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
520			_a"A timely study of contemporary American literature that highlights the everpresence of Puritan myths in American identity and culture"-- _cProvided by publisher.
520			_a"In this provocative and thought-provoking volume, Christopher Leise sheds new light on modern American novelists who question not only the assumption that Puritans founded New England--and, by extension, American identity--but also whether Puritanism ever existed in the United States at all. The Story upon a Hill: The Puritan Myth in Contemporary American Fiction analyzes the work of several of the most important contemporary writers in the United States as reinterpreting commonplace narratives of the country's origins with a keen eye on the effects of inclusion and exclusion that Puritan myths promote. In 1989, Ronald Reagan recalled the words of Massachusetts Bay Colony governor John Winthrop, who imagined the colony as a "city upon a hill" for future nations to emulate. In Reagan's speech, Winthrop's signature rhetoric became an emblem of American idealism, and for many Americans, the Puritans' New England was the place where the United States forged its original identity. But what if Winthrop never gave that speech? What if he did not even write it? Historians cannot definitively answer these questions. In fact, no group that we refer to as American Puritans thought of themselves as Puritans. Rather, they were a group of dissident Christians often better defined by their disagreements than their shared beliefs. Literary scholars interested in Anglo-American literary production from the seventeenth century through the present, historians, and readers interested in how ideas about Christianity circulate in popular culture will find fascinating the ways in which William Gaddis, Kurt Vonnegut, Thomas Pynchon, and Marilynne Robinson repurpose so-called Puritan forms of expression to forge a new narrative of New England's Congregationalist legacy in American letters. Works by Colson Whitehead, Paul Auster, Toni Morrison, and others are also considered. The Story upon a Hill raises a provocative question: if the Puritans never existed as we understand them, what might American history look like in that context?"-- _cProvided by publisher.
588	0		_aPrint version record.
505	0		_aAcknowledgments; Introduction: Salem and the Selling of American Selfhood; 1. The What That's in a Name: Settling On an American Puritanism; 2. Hawthorne, Gaddis, and Models of American Identity; 3. Alien Abduction as Captivity Nonnarrative in Slaughterhouse-Five; 4. Thomas Pynchon, the Sloth of Salvation, and Becoming Converted; 5. Rereading Puritan Spiritual Autobiography in Gilead; 6. Types of Exceptionalism: Colson Whitehead, Ronald Reagan, John Kennedy, Paul Auster; 7. America before Puritanism: or, Toni Morrison's Decentered English Origin.
505	8		_aConclusion: Tituba, Hopefully, UnknowableNotes; Works Cited; Index.
590			_aMaster record variable field(s) change: 050
650		0	_aNational characteristics, American, in literature.
650		0	_aChristianity and literature _zUnited States.
650		0	_aPuritans _zUnited States _xInfluence.
650		0	_aPuritans in literature.
650		0	_aAmerican fiction _y21st century _xHistory and criticism.
650		0	_aAmerican fiction _y20th century _xHistory and criticism.
650		7	_aRELIGION _xChristianity _xProtestant. _2bisacsh
650		7	_aLITERARY CRITICISM _xAmerican _xGeneral. _2bisacsh
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650		7	_aChristianity and literature. _2fast _0(OCoLC)fst00859681
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650		7	_aPuritans in literature. _2fast _0(OCoLC)fst01084379
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651		7	_aUnited States. _2fast _0(OCoLC)fst01204155
648		7	_a1900-2099 _2fast
655		4	_aElectronic books.
655		7	_aCriticism, interpretation, etc. _2fast _0(OCoLC)fst01411635
776	0	8	_iPrint version: _aLeise, Christopher, 1978- _tStory upon a hill. _dTuscaloosa : University Alabama Press, 2017 _w(DLC) 2016052376
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