Puritans in the New World

[Dave Monroe]

Hall, David D., ed.  Puritans in the New World:
   A Critical Anthology.  Princeton, NJ: PUP, 2004.

Puritans in the New World tells the story of the
powerful yet turbulent culture of the English people
who embarked on an "errand into the wilderness." It
presents the Puritans in their own words, shedding
light on the lives both of great dissenters such as
Roger Williams and Anne Hutchinson and of the orthodox
leaders who contended against them. Classics of
Puritan expression, like Mary Rowlandson's captivity
narrative, Anne Bradstreet's poetry, and William
Bradford's Of Plymouth Plantation appear alongside
texts that are less well known but no less important:
confessions of religious experience by lay people, the
"diabolical" possession of a young woman, and the
testimony of Native Americans who accept Christianity.
Hall's chapter introductions provide a running history
of Puritanism in seventeenth-century New England and
alert readers to important scholarship.

http://pup.princeton.edu/titles/7738.html


	
		
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