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- catalog contributor b10229957.
- catalog created "c1997.".
- catalog date "1997".
- catalog date "c1997.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1997.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 217-222) and index.".
- catalog description "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.".
- catalog description "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?".
- catalog description "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.".
- catalog extent "ix, 226 p. ;".
- catalog hasFormat "Humor and revelation in American literature.".
- catalog identifier "0826210953 (alk. paper)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Humor and revelation in American literature.".
- catalog issued "1997".
- catalog issued "c1997.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Columbia : University of Missouri Press,".
- catalog relation "Humor and revelation in American literature.".
- catalog spatial "New England".
- catalog subject "817.009/382 20".
- catalog subject "American literature History and criticism.".
- catalog subject "American wit and humor History and criticism.".
- catalog subject "Christian literature, American Puritan authors History and criticism.".
- catalog subject "PS430 .C68 1997".
- catalog subject "Puritan movements in literature.".
- catalog subject "Puritans New England Humor.".
- catalog subject "Revelation in literature.".
- catalog subject "Wit and humor Religious aspects Christianity.".
- catalog tableOfContents "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.".
- catalog tableOfContents "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?".
- catalog tableOfContents "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.".
- catalog title "Humor and revelation in American literature : the Puritan connection / Pascal Covici, Jr.".
- catalog type "Criticism, interpretation, etc. fast".
- catalog type "Humor. fast".
- catalog type "text".