@article{1479416,
      recid = {1479416},
      author = {Adams, Abigail,  and Adams, Henry,  and Adams, John  Quincy,  and Adams, John,  and Alcott, Bronson,  and  Alcott, Louisa May,  and Allen, Fred,  and Antin, Mary,   and Apess, William,  and Auchincloss, Louis,  and Beston,  Henry,  and Bishop, Elizabeth,  and Bradstreet, Anne,  and  Bryant, William Cullen,  and Bushnell, Horace,  and  Chapman, John Jay,  and Cheever, John,  and Cotton, John,   and Cummings, Ε.Ε.,  and Dana, Richard Henry,  and  Danforth, Samuel,  and Delbanco, Andrew,  and Dickinson,  Emily,  and Douglass, Frederick,  and Du Bois, W. Ε. В.,   and Edwards, Jonathan,  and Eliot, Charles W.,  and  Emerson, Ralph Waldo,  and Fisher, Dorothy Canfield,  and  Frankfurter, Felix,  and Franklin, Benjamin,  and Frost,  Robert,  and Fuller, Margaret,  and Giamatti, A . Bartlett,   and Haley, Alex,  and Hall, Donald,  and Harvard College,,   and Hawthorne, Nathaniel,  and Holmes, Oliver Wendell,   and Howe, Julia Ward,  and Howells, William Dean,  and  Jackson, Shirley,  and James, Henry,  and James, William,   and Jewett, Sarah Orne,  and Kennedy, John F.,  and  Kinnell, Galway,  and Kozol, Jonathan,  and Lewontin,  Timothy,  and Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth,  and Lowell,  Robert,  and Lukas, J. Anthony,  and Marquand, John P.,   and Mather, Cotton,  and Matthiessen, F.О.,  and Mcphee,  John,  and Oliver, Peter,  and Otis, James,  and O'Connor,  Edwin,  and Parker, Theodore,  and Peabody, Elizabeth  Palmer,  and Ripley, George,  and Robinson, Edwin  Arlington,  and Sexton, Anne,  and Stafford, Jean,  and  Stevens, Wallace,  and Stoddard, Elizabeth,  and Stowe,  Harriet Beecher,  and Sumner, Charles,  and Sumner, William  Graham,  and Taylor, Edward,  and The Salem Court,,  and  Twain, Mark,  and Updike, John,  and Webster, Daniel,  and  West, Dorothy,  and White, Ε.Β.,  and Wilbur, Richard,  and  Willis, Nathaniel Parker,  and Winthrop, John,  and Wolff,  Geoffrey,  and X, Malcolm,  and Τηоreau, Henry David, },
      title = {Writing New England : An Anthology from the Puritans to  the Present /},
      pages = {1 online resource (463 p.) :},
      abstract = {The story of New England writing begins some 400 years  ago, when a group of English Puritans crossed the Atlantic  believing that God had appointed them to bring light and  truth to the New World. Over the centuries since, the  people of New England have produced one of the great  literary traditions of the world--an outpouring of poetry,  fiction, history, memoirs, letters, and essays that records  how the original dream of a godly commonwealth has been  both sustained and transformed into a modern secular  culture enriched by people of many backgrounds and  convictions. Writing New England, edited by the literary  scholar and critic Andrew Delbanco, is the most  comprehensive anthology of this tradition, offering a full  range of thought and style. The major figures of New  England literature--from John Winthrop and Anne Bradstreet  to Emerson, Hawthorne, Dickinson, and Thoreau, to Robert  Frost, Wallace Stevens, Robert Lowell, Anne Sexton, and  John Updike--are of course represented, often with fresh  and less familiar selections from their works. But Writing  New England also samples a wide range of writings including  Puritan sermons, court records from the Salem witch trials,  Felix Frankfurter's account of the case of Sacco and  Vanzetti, William Apess's eulogy for the Native American  King Philip, pamphlets and poems of the Revolution and the  Civil War, natural history, autobiographical writings of W.  E. B. Du Bois and Malcolm X, Mary Antin's account of the  immigrant experience, John F. Kennedy's broadcast address  on civil rights, and A. Bartlett Giamatti's memoir of a Red  Sox fan. Organized thematically, this anthology provides a  collective self-portrait of the New England mind. With an  introductory essay on the origins of New England, a  detailed chronology, and explanatory headnotes for each  selection, the book is a welcoming introduction to a great  American literary tradition and a treasury of vivid writing  that defines what it has meant, over nearly four centuries,  to be a New Englander. From the Preface: "Imposing one  unitary meaning on New England would be as foolish as it  would be unconvincing. Yet one purpose of this book is to  convey some sense of New England's continuities and  coherence.Not all the writers in this book are major  figures (a few are barely known), but all are here because  of the bracing freshness with which they describe places,  people, ideas, and events to which, even if the subject is  familiar, we are re-awakened."},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/1479416},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.4159/harvard.9780674335486},
}