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Origins and Last Farewells: Bible Wars, Textual Form, and the Making of American History

Published:2013-12 Issue:4 Volume:86 Page:543-592
ISSN:0028-4866
Container-title:The New England Quarterly
language:en
Short-container-title:The New England Quarterly

Author:

Van Engen Abram C.¹

Affiliation:

1. Abram C. Van Engen is an Assistant Professor of English at Washington University in St. Louis. He has published previously in Early American Literature, Legacy, Literature and Theology, and Pedagogy. His first book, Sympathetic Puritans: Calvinist Fellow Feeling and the History of Sympathy, is under contract with Oxford University Press.

Abstract

The Puritans never published John Winthrop's “city on a hill” sermon, A Model of Christian Charity, which vanished in the seventeenth century. When it reappeared 200 years later, scholars relied on a dubious cover-note to proclaim its foundational significance. Demonstrating how the Geneva Bible gave shape to Winthrop's sermon–and how the manuscript's whims helped make sense of its meaning–this essay reveals the role of textual form in the construction of American history.

Publisher

MIT Press - Journals

Subject

Literature and Literary Theory,History

Link

https://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/pdf/10.1162/TNEQ_a_00320

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