As a companion to his 1992 Design in Puritan American Literature Scheick (English, U. of Texas-Austin) explores logonomic conflict in the works of northeastern colonial women, and finds that their w
Puritan American writers faced a dilemma: they had an obligation to use language as a celebration of divine artistry, but they could not allow their writing to become an iconic graven image of authori
This study discloses the intellectual context and the personal pretext of Thomas Paine's assault on religion in The Age of Reason. It uncovers adumbrations of Paine's correlation of religion and polit
