Rappaccini's Children: American Writers in a Calvinist World
작성자
William H. Shurr
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Religion & Spirituality
History
형식
킨들
페이지
173
언어
영어
출판됨
Jan 1, 2021
출판사
The University Press of Kentucky
판
2
ISBN-10
0813195047
ISBN-13
9780813195049
설명
Nathaniel Hawthorne's short story "Rappaccini's Daughter" tells of a beautiful girl who has, from birth, absorbed the poison from the flowers of her father's garden. In this allegorical tale of the fallen Garden of Eden, William H. Shurr finds a metaphor for the fate of many American writers, for whom the heritage of calvinism has been the poisoned fruit of the Garden of the New World.For many American writers, the legacy of the Puritan Fathers has been a pervasive sense of sinfulness and guilt in a violent and unforgiving universe. In this new study Shurr examines how these writers have coped with this heritage.