For generations, scholars have imagined American puritans as religious enthusiasts, fleeing persecution, finding refuge in Massachusetts, and founding \'America\'.
Together, an international team of authors make clear that Puritan America cannot be thought of ap.
This History challenges the usual understanding of American puritans, offering new ways of reading their History and their literary culture.
The puritans have been read as a product of New England and the origin of American exceptionalism.
For generations, scholars have imagined American puritans as religious enthusiasts, fleeing persecution, finding refuge in Massachusetts, and founding \'America\'