Alan Leander MacGregor
Biographic Data
| ID | 5407723 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Alan Leander MacGregor |
| GIVEN NAMES | Alan Leander |
| FAMILY NAME | MacGregor |
| SIGNATURE | MACGREGOR A L |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 4 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1983 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1991 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Gracious Laughter
Increase Mather, Edward Taylor, and Jonathan Edwards were important figures in seventeenth and eighteenth-century New England, their lives and contributions overlapping in significant ways: Mather and Taylor were close contemporaries, with Edwards's birth occurring when other two men were in their sixties; all three were Puritan ministers; Edwards and Mather were college presidents and influential in their own time; and three together represent c…
Lords of the Ascendant
The Jacksonian period of the 1830s shows the emergent forces of liberal capitalism rising to economic dominance. The emerging values of this new commercial hegemony were supported by many apologists, but other voices, speaking for the "genteel" older cultural matrix of inherited wealth and established culture, expressed dismay at, even abhorrence toward, the commonplace culture that Jacksonian economic and social democracy was creating
Edward Taylor and the Impertinent Metaphor
ALL the major critics of Edward Taylor's poetry and poetics are CX agreed that his use of metaphor makes him stand out among other American Puritan poets. But some have also complained about his rude poetics, charging that his metaphors attract the attention away from the idea which they are supposed to convey because the between the things compared is too great for the mind to bridge with appreciation and that his attempt to celebrate God's crea…
Tammany
SO SAYS TAMENUND, SAGE OF THE DELAWARE, AT THE CONCLUSION of James Fenimore Cooper's The Last of the Mohicans. The deployment of the Indian-especially Chief Tamenund or Tammany-as a rhetorical surrogate in political debate and action had a long history even before Cooper brought this popular tradition into American fiction. Richard Slotkin has noted that, in the eighteenth century, narratives of Indian warfare offered the simplicity of dramatic c…
Lords of the Ascendant
The Jacksonian period of the 1830s shows the emergent forces of liberal capitalism rising to economic dominance. The emerging values of this new commercial hegemony were supported by many apologists, but other voices, speaking for the "genteel" older cultural matrix of inherited wealth and established culture, expressed dismay at, even abhorrence toward, the commonplace culture that Jacksonian economic and social democracy was creating
Tammany
SO SAYS TAMENUND, SAGE OF THE DELAWARE, AT THE CONCLUSION of James Fenimore Cooper's The Last of the Mohicans. The deployment of the Indian-especially Chief Tamenund or Tammany-as a rhetorical surrogate in political debate and action had a long history even before Cooper brought this popular tradition into American fiction. Richard Slotkin has noted that, in the eighteenth century, narratives of Indian warfare offered the simplicity of dramatic c…
Edward Taylor and the Impertinent Metaphor
ALL the major critics of Edward Taylor's poetry and poetics are CX agreed that his use of metaphor makes him stand out among other American Puritan poets. But some have also complained about his rude poetics, charging that his metaphors attract the attention away from the idea which they are supposed to convey because the between the things compared is too great for the mind to bridge with appreciation and that his attempt to celebrate God's crea…
Lords of the Ascendant
The Jacksonian period of the 1830s shows the emergent forces of liberal capitalism rising to economic dominance. The emerging values of this new commercial hegemony were supported by many apologists, but other voices, speaking for the "genteel" older cultural matrix of inherited wealth and established culture, expressed dismay at, even abhorrence toward, the commonplace culture that Jacksonian economic and social democracy was creating
Gracious Laughter
Increase Mather, Edward Taylor, and Jonathan Edwards were important figures in seventeenth and eighteenth-century New England, their lives and contributions overlapping in significant ways: Mather and Taylor were close contemporaries, with Edwards's birth occurring when other two men were in their sixties; all three were Puritan ministers; Edwards and Mather were college presidents and influential in their own time; and three together represent c…
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