Item #015293 Rappaccini's Children: American Writers in a Calvinist World. William H. Shurr.
Rappaccini's Children: American Writers in a Calvinist World
Rappaccini's Children: American Writers in a Calvinist World
Rappaccini's Children: American Writers in a Calvinist World

Rappaccini's Children: American Writers in a Calvinist World

Lexington, KY: The University Press of Kentucky, 1982. Hardcover.

No Flaws or Blemishes but minimal shelf handling; Dust jacket has a small rub on the top corner.

For many American writers, the legacy of the Puritan Fathers has been a pervasive sense of sinfulness and guilt in a violent and unforgiving universe. In this new study Shurr examines how these writers have coped with this heritage using Nathaniel Hawthorne's short story 'Rappaccini's Daughter'.

Item #015293
ISBN: 0813114276

Price: $24.00