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Female Piety and the Invention of American Puritanism reconsiders the standard critical view that women's religious experiences were either silent consent or ho

This treatise documents the claim that, for Puritan men and women alike, the ideals of selfhood were conveyed by female images. It argues that these images taug

In Cast Down: Abjection in America, 1700-1850, Mark J. Miller argues that transatlantic Protestant discourses of abjection engaged with, and furthered the devel

Tracing the first three generations in Puritan New England, this book explores changes in language, gender expectations, and religious identities for men and wo