Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Dedication
- Preface
- Introduction: provincialism and the frontier
- 1 “But enmity this amity did break”
- 2 Brother Jonathan
- 3 “A musy in the thicket”
- 4 Geoffrey Crayon and the gigantic race
- 5 Hawthorne's provincial imagination
- 6 Working in Eden
- 7 Life as art in America
- 8 Reading God directly: the morbidity of culture
- Postscript: tradition and circumstance
- Notes
- Index
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Dedication
- Preface
- Introduction: provincialism and the frontier
- 1 “But enmity this amity did break”
- 2 Brother Jonathan
- 3 “A musy in the thicket”
- 4 Geoffrey Crayon and the gigantic race
- 5 Hawthorne's provincial imagination
- 6 Working in Eden
- 7 Life as art in America
- 8 Reading God directly: the morbidity of culture
- Postscript: tradition and circumstance
- Notes
- Index
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- The Sacred GameProvincialism and Frontier Consciousness in American Literature, 1630–1860, pp. 159 - 184Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1985