The Story upon a Hill: The Puritan Myth in Contemporary American Fiction 1st Edition Christopher Leise

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• ISBN-10: 0817319476
• ISBN-13: 9780817319472
• Author: Christopher Leise

The Story upon a Hill: The Puritan Myth in Contemporary American Fiction analyzes the work of several of the most important contemporary writers in the United States as reinterpreting commonplace narratives of the country’s origins with a keen eye on the effects of inclusion and exclusion that Puritan myths promote. In 1989, Ronald Reagan recalled the words of Massachusetts Bay Colony governor John Winthrop, who imagined the colony as a “city upon a hill” for future nations to emulate. In Reagan’s speech, Winthrop’s signature rhetoric became an emblem of American idealism, and for many Americans, the Puritans’ New England was the place where the United States forged its original identity.

Table contents:

1. The What That’s in a Name: Settling On an American Puritanism

2. Hawthorne, Gaddis, and Models of American Identity

3. Alien Abduction as Captivity Nonnarrative in Slaughterhouse-Five

4. Thomas Pynchon, the Sloth of Salvation, and Becoming Converted

5. Rereading Puritan Spiritual Autobiography in Gilead

6. Types of Exceptionalism: Colson Whitehead, Ronald Reagan, John Kennedy, Paul Auster

7. America before Puritanism: or, Toni Morrison’s Decentered English Origin

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