puritan movements in literature

A collection of essays that track dynamics in American sexuality in relation to religion and national identity, as seen in American literature, since the Puritan movement of the seventeenth century.

Examines the lives and experiences of three representative American women poets in the context of their historical time and place, including Puritan Anne Bradstreet, Emily Dickinson in the nineteenth century, and contemporary poet Adrienne Rich.

Examines the connections between colonial ideology and contemporary American writing and films concerning the Vietnam experience.