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050 00 $aPS169.F68$bM34 1996
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100 1 $aMages, Michael J.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n95077859
245 14 $aThe dark stain :$bthe role of innate depravity in American literature, 1620-1940 /$cMichael J. Mages.
260 $aBethesda, MD :$bAustin & Winfield,$c1995.
263 $a9605
300 $a363 pages ;$c22 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 3187-345) and index.
505 00 $gCh. 1.$tThe Seed is Planted --$gCh. 2.$tPlum Island Keeps Its Commanded Post --$gCh. 3.$tAdam is Proclaimed a Deist --$gCh. 4.$tLights in the Firmament and the Blackness of Darkness --$gCh. 5.$tCry Havoc, and Let Slip the Primitive Man! --$gCh. 6.$tSome Cause for Hope --$gCh. 7.$tMomento Mori.
520 $aA major theme in American literature, beginning with the Puritans of the seventeenth century and extending into the first half of the current century, has been the perception of human nature as innately depraved. In this study, Michael Mages employs a history of ideas approach to his subject that results in a book which resembles some of the classics of American literary history.
520 8 $aCovering over 300 years of American literary history, Mages shows the continuing influence of a theme that originated even before this country was a nation. Strong linkages are made with the nature of American puritanism, the Indian frontier, romanticism and decadence as literary modes. Authors as disparate as Cotton Mather, Edgar Allen Poe, Henry James, Hart Crane, D. H. Lawrence, and William Faulkner are explored and imaginatively discussed.
650 0 $aAmerican literature$xHistory and criticism.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85004351
650 0 $aFree will and determinism in literature.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85051689
650 0 $aAmerican literature$xPuritan authors$xHistory and criticism.
650 0 $aNational characteristics, American, in literature.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh95007417
650 0 $aChristianity and literature$zUnited States.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2009118538
650 0 $aSin, Original, in literature.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh97002927
650 0 $aDegeneration in literature.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh94003788
650 0 $aPessimism in literature.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85100265
650 0 $aVices in literature.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh94008885
650 0 $aGood and evil in literature.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh94004490
852 00 $bglx$hPS169.F68$iM34 1996