Devil's Mousetrap Redemption and Colonial American Literature

Name: Devil's Mousetrap Redemption and Colonial American Literature
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ISBN: 9780195114942

ISBN-10: 0195114949

ISBN-13: 9780195114942

Edition: 1997

Authors: Linda Munk

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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, both directly 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 elucidate many allusions that have, for the most part, proved to be unclear to contemporary readers, in order to provide essential…

Book details

List price: $120.00
Copyright year: 1997
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 9/4/1997
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 160
Size: 5.71" wide x 8.31" long x 0.79" tall
Weight: 0.792
Language: English




The Devil's Mousetrap



Jonathan Edwards and the Angel of the Lord: A History of the Work of Redemption



The Age of Messiah: Increase Mather and the Conversion of the Jews



Edward Taylor and the Feast of Tabernacles


Afterword


Notes


Index