Speaking, Silently Speaking: Thomas Shepard's "Confessions" and the Cultural Impact of Puritan Conversion on Early and Later America

My dissertation reappraises the Puritan conversion narrative's influence on early and later American literature. It centers around the accounts recorded by the Reverend Thomas Shepard, minister to Cambridge's first church, and looks at how New England's earliest settlers represented t...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Young, Alexander
Other Authors: Sayre, Gordon
Language:en_US
Published: University of Oregon 2012
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1794/12337