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  1. The Devil's Mousetrap
    Redemption and Colonial American Literature
    Author: Munk, Linda
    Published: 1997
    Publisher:  Oxford University Press, Cary ; ProQuest, Ann Arbor, Michigan

    The Devil's Mousetrap approaches the thought of three colonial New England divines--Increase Mather, Jonathan Edwards, and Edward Taylor--from the perspective of literary theory. Author Linda Munk focuses on the background of these men's ideas and on... more

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    The Devil's Mousetrap approaches the thought of three colonial New England divines--Increase Mather, Jonathan Edwards, and Edward Taylor--from the perspective of literary theory. Author Linda Munk focuses on the background of these men's ideas and on the sources from which they drew, bothdirectly and indirectly, in framing their theology. She notes that the language used in the pulpit by Mather, Edwards, and Taylor is full of allusions to the Bible and Apocrypha, to Puritan treatises, and to post-biblical exegesis, Jewish and Christian. Munk proceeds to unpack many allusions thathave, for the most part, proven to be unclear to contemporary readers, in order to provide essential insights into the construction of Puritan theology.

     

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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9780195354119
    RVK Categories: HS 1830 ; HS 1721
    Subjects: Englisch; Puritanismus; Literatur
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (159 pages)
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