| Description |
1 online resource (272 pages). |
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text file |
| Series |
North American religions
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North American religions.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction -- Prologue -- Hardy Puritan pioneers -- Three struggling patriarchs -- A brutal murder -- A criminal lunatic -- A messy divorce -- The inheritance -- Blood will tell -- Conclusion. |
| Summary |
"Who was Elizabeth Tuttle? In most histories, she is a footnote, a blip. At best, she is a minor villain in the story of Jonathan Edwards, perhaps the greatest American theologian of the colonial era. Many historians consider Jonathan Edwards a theological genius, wildly ahead of his time, a Puritan hero. Elizabeth Tuttle was Edwards's "crazy grandmother," the one whose madness and adultery drove his despairing grandfather to divorce. In this compelling and meticulously researched work of micro-history, Ava Chamberlain unearths a fuller history of Elizabeth Tuttle. It is a violent and tragic story in which anxious patriarchs struggle to govern their households, unruly women disobey their husbands, mental illness tears families apart, and loved ones die sudden deaths. Through the lens of Elizabeth Tuttle, Chamberlain re-examines the common narrative of Jonathan Edwards's ancestry, giving his long-ignored paternal grandmother a voice. Tracing this story into the 19th century, she creates a new way of looking at both ordinary families of colonial New England and how Jonathan Edwards's family has been remembered by his descendants, contemporary historians, and, significantly, eugenicists. For as Chamberlain uncovers, it was during the eugenics movement, which employed the Edwards family as an ideal, that the crazy grandmother story took shape. The Notorious Elizabeth Tuttle not only brings to light the tragic story of an ordinary woman living in early New England, it also explores the deeper tension between the ideal of Puritan family life and its messy reality, complicating the way America has thought about its Puritan past."--Project Muse. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Edwards family.
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Edwards family. |
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Tuttle family.
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Tuttle family. |
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Edwards, Richard, 1647-1718 -- Marriage.
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Edwards, Richard, 1647-1718. |
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Marriage. |
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Tuttle, Elizabeth, 1645- -- Marriage.
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Tuttle, Elizabeth, 1645- |
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Edwards, Jonathan, 1703-1758 -- Family.
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Edwards, Jonathan, 1703-1758. |
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Families. |
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Families -- Mental health.
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Families -- Mental health. |
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Connecticut -- Biography.
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Connecticut. |
| Genre/Form |
Biographies.
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Electronic books.
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Dictionaries.
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Dictionaries.
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Biographies.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Chamberlain, Ava. Notorious Elizabeth Tuttle. New York : New York University Press, ©2012 (DLC) 2012010671 |
| ISBN |
9780814723746 (electronic book) |
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0814723748 (electronic book) |
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9780814723739 (electronic book) |
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081472373X (electronic book) |
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0814723721 |
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9780814723722 |
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