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Tag Archives: Puritan
L is for the way you look at me…
In concert with my post from last week, Black-Out Conversion, I want to tackle another topic from Smith & Watson’s Chapter on Autobiographical Acts in their book Reading Autobiography. This time, what I referred to as the “who” interests me … Continue reading
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Tagged Addressee, Anne Bradstreet, audience, Autobiographical Acts, Intent, Love, Poetry, Puritan, Reading Autobiography, Relationships, Smith and Watson
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Ann Hutchinson’s Agency
While reading the trial scripts of Ann Hutchinson, I was amazed at how obviously gendered Puritan ideologies and cultural scripts were and how the authority seems to manipulate them in order to punish a woman for being a so called … Continue reading
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Wigglesworth and Ethics
Throughout Michael Wigglesworth’s diary entries, his unfaltering devotion to Puritanism becomes apparent, primarily through his feelings of overwhelming guilt. The opening line of “Ah Lord, I am vile. I desire to abhor myself” truly sets the tone and reveals the … Continue reading
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Thomas Shepard’s God’s Plot and the Topoi of Interiority
In Reading Autobiography, Sidonie and Smith say, “The spiritual autobiographer often retreats from a hostile external world and creates a verbal landscape as the site for expressing devotion to an otherworldly being or idea” (48). This spatial context is helpful … Continue reading
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A Quasi-Puritan, Divine Remembrance During My Ten Minute Work Break
On the early evening of Sunday February 6, I call my eighty-five year old grandfather, “Pop”, from the back room of the coffee shop on my “ten.” On the third attempt (when he finally hears the ringer), I hear a … Continue reading
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Black-Out Conversion
In Smith and Watson’s Reading Autobiography, in their chapter about autobiographical acts, I see them frame autobiography by looking at the who, what, where, when, how and why of their creation. The who is the person to which the story … Continue reading
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Tagged Autobiographical Acts, Autobiography, coaxers, coercers, Puritan, Reading Autobiography, Smith and Watson, Spiritual Autobiography, Spiritual Redemption, storytelling, Thomas Shepard
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Of the gracious mercy that I hath been shown
In the year of the Lord 1992, in the Spring of that year, when I was but a young child, my parents did begin, through the goodness of the Lord, the building of a home for themselves and for their … Continue reading
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My Eternal Soul Resteth Among the Non-“Elect”
I have to start by saying that I do believe that some extraordinary events have taken place during my life, some of which will probably have broader implications on the rest of my life, and possibly even my afterlife. However, … Continue reading
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Tagged Comedy, Farce, Puritan, Signs, Thomas Shepherd
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