Publications: New England Puritanism

Books The Puritan Origins of the American Self, 1975: Yale University Press, New Haven and London; Second Printing, 1976; Paperback edition, 1977. The American Jeremiad, 1978: University of Wisconsin Press, Madison. Paperback edition, 1980; 2nd edition, 1989. American Puritana, 1992: Editori Reuniti, Transl. Giuseppe Nori (a collection of essays on the Puritans). Edited Books and Editions Special typology issue of Early American Literature, V, Part I (1970), Introduction, pp. 5-10. Typology and Early American Literature, 1972: University of Massachusetts Press, Amherst. Introduction, pp.5-10. "Ken Akiyama, on the Poetry and Typology of Edward Taylor" (with Irene Bloom), Early American Literature, VIII (1973), p. 97 The American Puritan Imagination: Essays in Revaluation, 1974: Cambridge University Press, New York and Cambridge. Introduction and Bibliography, pp. 1-16, 212-216. Reprinted, 2004. American Puritanism: The Seventeenth Century, 1983: AMS Press, New York. General introduction, with brief descriptions of 27 volumes of reprints. The Millennium in America, from the Puritan Migration to the Civil War, 1983: AMS Press, New York. General introduction with brief descriptions of 43 volumes of reprints. Essays and Parts of Books "New England Epic: Cotton Mather's Magnalia Christi Americana," English Literary History, XXXIII (1966), pp. 337-350. "Cotton Mather Against Rhyme: Milton and the Psalterium Americanum," American Literature, XXXIX (1967), pp. 191-193. "Typology in Puritan New England: The Williams-Cotton Controversy Reassessed," American Quarterly, XIX (1967), pp. 166-191. "The Historiography of Johnson's Wonder-Working Providence," Essex Institue Historical Collections, CIV (1968), pp. 138-161. "Diabolus in Salem," English Language Notes, VI (1969), pp. 280-285. "'Delightful Examples of Surprising Prosperity': Cotton Mather and the American Success Story," English Studies, LI (1970), pp. 40-43. "Puritan New England Rhetoric and the Jewish Problem," Early American Literature, V (1970), pp. 63-71. Introduction to special typology issue of Early American Literature, V, Part I (1970), pp. 5-10. "Horologicals to Chronometricals: The Rhetoric of the Jeremiad," 1970: University of Wisconsin Press, Literary Monographs, No. 3, ed. Eric Rothstein, Madison, pp. 1-124, 187- "Annotated Bibliography on Typology: Part I," Early American Literature, V (1970), pp. 1-76. "Annotated Bibliography on Typology: Part II," Early American Literature, VI (1971), pp. 1-80 (special supplement). Typology and Early American Literature, 1972: University of Massachusetts Press, Amherst, Introduction, pp. 5-10. "Cotton Mather," in Major Writers of Early American Literature, ed. Everett Emerson, 1972: University of Wisconsin Press, Madison, pp. 93-150. "Ken Akiyama, on the Poetry and Typology of Edward Taylor" (with Irene Bloom), Early American Literature, VIII (1973), p. 97. Introduction and Bibliography, The American Puritan Imagination: Essays in Revaluation, 1974: Cambridge University Press, New York and Cambridge. Introduction and Bibliography, pp. 1-16, 212-216. Reprinted, 2004. "'Nehemias Americanus': Cotton Mather and the Concept of the Representative American," Early American Literature, VIII (1974), pp. 220-238. "Colonial Puritan Rhetoric and the Discovery of American Identity," Canadian Review of American Studies, VI (1975), pp. 131-150. "The American Puritan Imagination: An Introduction," in Hawthorne and the Puritans, ed. John A. Calabro, 1975: West Point, New York, pp. 51-54. "How the Puritans Won the American Revolution," Massachusetts Review, XVII (1976), pp. 597-630. "The Historiography of Johnson's Wonder-Working Providence," in Puritan New England: Essays on Religion, Society, and Culture, ed. Alden T. Vaughan and F. J. Bremer 1977: St. Martin's Press, New York, pp. 268-286. Introduction to David Stineback and Charles Segal, Puritans, Indians, and Manifest Destiny, 1977: Putnam's New York, pp. 15-18. "The Typology of America's Mission," American Quarterly, XXX (1978), pp. 135-155; expanded and revised as "Continuing Revolution: George Bancroft and the Liberal Theory of Process" in Sacvan Bercovitch, The Rites of Assent: Transformations in the Symbolic Construction of America, 1993: Routledge, New York and London, pp. 168-194. "Puritanism in a Revolutionary World," Lex at Scientia, XIV (1978), pp. 229-243. "The Puritan Errand into the American Revolution," in Puritanism: An Errand into the Wilderness, ed. William J. Monihan, 1979: University of San Francisco, pp. 1-28. "New England's Errand Reappraised," in New Directions in American Intellectual History, ed. John Higham and Paul Conkin, 1979: The Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, pp. 85-105. "Rhetoric and History in Early New England: The Puritan Errand Reassessed," in Towards a New American Literary History: Essays in Honor of Arlin Turner, ed. Louis J. Budd, Edwin H. Cady, and Carl L. Anderson, 1980: Duke University Press, Durham, NC, pp. 54-68. "The Image of America: From Hermeneutics to Symbolism," in Early American Literature: A Collection of Critical Essays, ed. Michael T. Gilmore, 1980: Prentice-Hall, Englewood Cliffs, NJ, pp. 158-167. "Rhetoric as Authority: Puritanism, the Bible, and the Myth of America," Information sur les sciences sociales, XXI (1982), pp. 5 17. "How The Puritans Discovered America," Revista di Studi Anglo-Americani, II (1983), pp. 7 21. American Puritanism: The Seventeenth Century, 1983: A M S Press, New York. General introduction, with brief descriptions of 27 volumes of reprints. The Millennium in America, from the Puritan Migration to the Civil War, 1983: A M S Press, New York. General introduction with brief descriptions of 43 volumes of reprints. "The Modernity of American Puritan Rhetoric," in American Letters and the Historical Consciousness: Essays in Honor of Louis P. Simpson, ed. J. Gerald Kennedy and Daniel Mark Fogel, 1987: Louisiana State University Press, Baton Rouge, pp. 42 66. "The Puritan Vision of New England," in Columbia Literary History of the United States, ed. Emory Elliott, 1988: Columbia University Press, New York, pp. 33-44; reprinted in The Bedford Portable Anthology of American Literature, eds. Linck Johnson and Susan Belascoof, 2005: Bedford/St. Martin's Press, Boston. "The Ends of American Puritan Rhetoric," in The Ends of Rhetoric: History, Theory, Practice, ed. John Bender and David E. Wellbury, 1990: Stanford University Press, pp. 171-190. "Puritanism in a Revolutionary World," A Dedication to Craft: Essays from Twenty Years of the Lawrence Henry Gibson Institute for Eighteenth-Century Studies, ed. William G. Shade, 1996: Lehigh University Press, pp. 247-256. "The Winthrop Variation: a Model of American Identity," in Proceedings of the British Academy XCVII (1998), pp. 75-94. "Rhetoric As Cultural Work: The Example of John Winthrop's 'Model of Christian Charity'," in The Cultural Work of literature, ed. Susanne Rohr, Peter Schneck, and Sabine Sielke, 2000: Heidelberg, Winter Verlag, pp. 15-32. "Puritan Origins Revisited: The 'City on a Hill' as a Model of Tradition and Innovation," in Early America Re-Explored: New Readings in Colonial, Early National, and Antebellum Culture, ed. Klaus H. Schmidt and Fritz Fleischmann, 2000: Peter Lang, New York, pp. 31-48.

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