{"product_id":"the-imaginary-puritan-literature-intellectual-labor-and-the-origins-of-personal-life-volume-21-paperback","title":"The Imaginary Puritan: Literature, Intellectual Labor, and the Origins of Personal Life Volume 21 - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eNancy Armstrong\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eLeonard Tennenhouse\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNancy Armstrong and Leonard Tennenhouse challenge traditional accounts of the origins of modern Anglo-American culture by focusing on the emergence of print culture in England and the North American colonies. They postulate a modern middle class that consisted of authors and intellectuals who literally wrote a new culture into being. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Milton's \u003ci\u003eParadise Lost\u003c\/i\u003e marks the emergence of this new literacy. The authors show how Milton helped transform English culture into one of self-enclosed families made up of self-enclosed individuals. However, the authors point out that the popularity of \u003ci\u003eParadise Lost\u003c\/i\u003e was matched by that of the Indian captivity narratives that flowed into England from the American colonies. Mary Rowlandson's account of her forcible separation from the culture of her origins stresses the ordinary person's ability to regain those lost origins, provided she remains truly English. In a colonial version of the Miltonic paradigm, Rowlandson sought to return to a family of individuals much like the one in Milton's depiction of the fallen world. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Thus the origin both of modern English culture and of the English novel are located in North America. American captivity narratives formulated the ideal of personal life that would be reproduced in the communities depicted by Defoe, Richardson, and later domestic fiction. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1992.\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eA tour de force that reconceptualizes literary history and repositions British literature to claim the imperial and trans-Atlantic origins of the British novel. --Carroll Smith-Rosenberg, author of \u003ci\u003eDisorderly Conduct\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"A very exciting piece of work, with important implications for how we conceive projects in literary, intellectual, and cultural history. . . . It is sure to be a controversial study, but it will get serious attention, not just as a study of 'novels' and texts but as a provocative account of English history and of models for studying history.\"--J. Paul Hunter, author of \u003ci\u003eBefore Novels\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eNancy Armstrong\u003c\/b\u003e is Nancy Duke Lewis Professor of Comparative Literature, English, and Modern Culture and Media at Brown University. \u003cb\u003eLeonard Tennenhouse\u003c\/b\u003e is Adjunct Professor of Comparative Literature and Modern Culture and Media at Brown University.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 288\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.65 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e May 13, 2022\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52704301875507,"sku":"9780520308961","price":78.91,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/ulqxvu6Zs89780520308961.webp?v=1763351812","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/en-ca\/products\/the-imaginary-puritan-literature-intellectual-labor-and-the-origins-of-personal-life-volume-21-paperback","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}