Christopher Leise: 2 books
The Story upon a Hill
The Puritan Myth in Contemporary American Fiction
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2017
In this provocative and thought-provoking volume, Christopher Leise sheds new light on modern American novelists who question not only the assumption that Puritans founded New England—and, by extension, American identity—but also whether Puritanism ever existed in the United States at all.
The...
Pynchon's Against the Day
A Corrupted Pilgrim's Guide
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2011
Thomas Pynchon's longest novel to date, Against the Day (2006), excited diverse and energetic opinions when it appeared on bookstore shelves nine years after the critically acclaimed Mason & Dixon. Its wide-ranging plot covers nearly three decades-from the 1893 World's Fair to the years just after...