| Description |
ix, 423 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Note |
Includes index. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 400-403) and index. |
| Contents |
Diverse voyages: Columbus, Cartier, and the Conradian shape of adventure in America -- Divine tobacco: Hakluyt and the Virginia business -- Captain Courageous: Captain John Smith, father of us all -- A model of Moses: the Pilgrims lend a prophetic presence to the land -- Glorious enterprise: Governor Winthrop's wonderful wall -- Womb of nature: Thomas Morton and the call of the wild -- By way of Newtown: how Thomas Hooker crossed his Rubicon and started the Pequot War: a Hudibrastic interlude -- Ecclesiastic drums: Puritan theocrats, despairing of the present generation, reform the past -- A fabric huge: Cotton Mather's masterpiece; or, the original errand betrayed -- Providential passages: wherein a matron, a minister, a militiaman, and a madam display the cardinal points of the Puritan Compass -- Return, Alpheus: Taylor, Sewall, Wolcott, and company: some poetic fabrics from the linsey-woolsey loom -- On his majesty's service: Robert Beverley, William Byrd, and the Palladian version of American pastoral. |
| Form |
Also issued online. |
| Subject |
American literature -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 -- History and criticism.
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United States -- Intellectual life -- 18th century.
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United States. |
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Intellectual life. |
| Chronological Term |
18th century |
| Subject |
United States -- Intellectual life -- 17th century.
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| Chronological Term |
17th century |
| Subject |
Rivers -- United States -- History -- 18th century.
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Rivers. |
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History. |
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Rivers -- United States -- History -- 17th century.
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United States -- Civilization -- To 1783.
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Civilization. |
| Chronological Term |
To 1783 |
| Subject |
Prophecies in literature.
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Prophecies in literature. |
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Colonies in literature.
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Colonies in literature. |
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Rivers in literature.
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Rivers in literature. |
| Other Form: |
Online version: Seelye, John D. Prophetic waters. New York : Oxford University Press, 1977 (OCoLC)560650373 |
| ISBN |
0195020472 : $15.95 |
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9780195020472 |
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