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The Devil's Mousetrap: Redemption and Colonial American Literature

The Devil's Mousetrap: Redemption and Colonial American Literature

Munk, Linda

Hardcover

Literary CriticismColonial Period (1600-1775)General Christianity

ISBN10: 0195114949
ISBN13: 9780195114942
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: Sep 4 1997
Pages: 160
Weight: 0.82
Height: 0.70 Width: 5.71 Depth: 8.44
Language: English
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 unpack many allusions that have, for the most part, proven to be unclear to contemporary readers, in order to provide essential insights into the construction of Puritan theology.

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