{"product_id":"sympathetic-puritans","title":"Sympathetic Puritans","description":"\u003cp\u003eRevising dominant accounts of Puritanism and challenging the literary history of sentimentalism, Sympathetic Puritans argues that a Calvinist theology of sympathy shaped the politics, religion, rhetoric, and literature of early New England. Scholars have often understood and presented sentimentalism as a direct challenge to stern and stoic Puritan forebears; the standard history traces a cult of sensibility back to moral sense philosophy and the Scottish\n\u003cbr\u003eEnlightenment, not Puritan New England. Abram C. Van Engen has unearthed pervasive evidence of sympathy in a large archive of Puritan sermons, treatises, tracts, poems, journals, histories, and captivity\n\u003cbr\u003enarratives. He demonstrates how two types of sympathy -- the active command to fellow-feel (a duty), as well as the passive sign that could indicate salvation (a discovery) -- permeated Puritan society and came to define the very boundaries of English culture, affecting conceptions of community, relations with Native Americans, and the development of American literature.Van Engen re-examines the Antinomian Controversy, conversion narratives, transatlantic\n\u003cbr\u003erelations, Puritan missions, Mary Rowlandson's captivity narrative -- and Puritan culture more generally -- through the lens of sympathy. Demonstrating and explicating a Calvinist theology of sympathy in\n\u003cbr\u003eseventeenth-century New England, the book reveals the religious history of a concept that has previously been associated with more secular roots.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Oxford University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46060701155566,"sku":"9780199379637","price":215.63,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0630\/9612\/7726\/files\/9780199379637.jpg?v=1736518278","url":"https:\/\/bookland.com.au\/products\/sympathetic-puritans","provider":"Book Land AU","version":"1.0","type":"link"}