Humor and revelation in American literature
Humor and revelation in American literature: the Puritan connection Pascal Covici, Jr
Publisher: Columbia : University of Missouri Press, c1997.
ISBN: 0826210953
DDC: 817.009382
LCC: PS430
Edition: (alk. paper)
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 217-222) and index.
Reluctantly independent: the rattling of chains. A problem of
respect; Genteel and vernacular, Josiah Holland and Mark Twain;
Responses, and intimations of crossing over; American self-reliance?
The case of Hawthorne's Robin; Melville, the American difference, and
Richard Chase -- God's chosen people: the Anglican perspective.
Megalomaniacal fantasies...; Megalomania...with a British accent;
Ossa upon Pelion concluded, and then?; Britain versus the Bay Colony?
Yes...and no -- Certainty: Divine or human?: Bishop Burnet and the
matter of choice. Religiously political, politically religious; Of
tolerance, intolerance, and Bishop Fleetwood's country curate;
Toleration, belief, and the power(lessness) of the will --
The Puritan roots of American humor. Recognitions of the self; The
loneliness of the Solopsist, no laughing matter; Emerson's saving
rejection of the "Noble Doubt"; Thoreau's recalcitrant individual
fires his pistols; At the heart of it all, the unknowable remains;
Puritan rejection of Puritan reality-and what about us?
Voice, country, and class: reapproaching the vernacular. Mather
proposes, Wise disposes; The triumph of the country, earth and
conservative vulgarity ; "The simple Cobler" and the masks of Wise,
versus Polly Baker, or, humor slips in when theology blinks; From
Wise and Franklin, Mark Twain's triumphant vernacular -- The basis of
laughter: what's so funny? How do we read Polly and Tom?;
Affectation, again-and certainty; Disgust and gentility; Gentility,
ideality, and responses to mystery, Nick Carraway and Jim Doggett;
Mystery within; Dr. Holland once more, and the plight of the
humorless --
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