Author: GILMORE, Michael T.
Title: The Middle Way. Puritanism and Ideology in American Romantic Fiction.
Description: Rutgers University Press, 1977. Hardcover. Ex-library, No dj. A few pen marks to margins, small chip to top edge of rear board. Traces "...some of the connections between the Puritan mind of the colonial era and the great flowering of American literature in the nineteenth century". Examines the works of Cotton Mather, Benjamin Franklin, Hawthorne, Melville & James. Scarce. 220pp. Out of Print.

Keywords: literature literary history historical america united states century fiction 18th 19th eighteenth nineteenth puritan puritanism