{"product_id":"9780190266653","title":"Sympathetic Puritans: Calvinist Fellow Feeling in Early New England","description":"Revising dominant accounts of Puritanism and challenging the literary history of sentimentalism,\u003cem\u003e Sympathetic Puritans\u003c\/em\u003e argues that a Calvinist theology of sympathy shaped the politics, religion, rhetoric, and literature of early New England. Scholars have often understood and presented sentimentalism as a direct challenge to stern and stoic Puritan forebears; the standard history traces a cult of sensibility back to moral sense philosophy and the Scottish Enlightenment, not Puritan New England. Abram C. Van Engen has unearthed pervasive evidence of sympathy in a large archive of Puritan sermons, treatises, tracts, poems, journals, histories, and captivity narratives. He demonstrates how two types of sympathy -- the active \u003cem\u003ecommand\u003c\/em\u003e to fellow-feel (a duty), as well as the passive sign that could indicate salvation (a discovery) -- permeated Puritan society and came to define the very boundaries of English culture, affecting conceptions of community, relations with Native Americans, and the development of American literature.  Van Engen re-examines the Antinomian Controversy, conversion narratives, transatlantic relations, Puritan missions, Mary Rowlandson's captivity narrative -- and Puritan culture more generally -- through the lens of sympathy. Demonstrating and explicating a Calvinist theology of sympathy in seventeenth-century New England, the book reveals the religious history of a concept that has previously been associated with more secular roots.","brand":"Oxford University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47066900070640,"sku":"9780190266653","price":77.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780190266653_p0.jpg?v=1763658662","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780190266653","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}