The Rhetoric of New World Encounters.
A Model of Cultural Transvaluation: Puritanism, Modernity, and New World
Rhetoric
1. Walt Whitman, Song of Myself (1855), in Whitman: Complete Poetry and
Collected Prose, ed. Justin Kaplan (Library of America: New
York, 1982), p.87.
Here and in all subsequent quotations I have deleted the
ellipses.
2. John
Winthrop, A Model of Christian Charity, in Winthrop Papers,
ed. Stewart
Mitchell (Boston,
1931), II, pp.282-95. Winthrop Papers, ed. Mitchell, II, 282n.
3. W. S.
Holdworth, A History of
English Law (London, 1903), p. 123.
4. Virginia Dejohn Anderson, New England's
Generation:
The Great Migration and the Formation of Society and Culture in the
Seventeenth Century
(Cambridge, 1991), pp.31-32.
5. John Winthrop, Conclusions for the
Plantation in New
England, in Old South Leaflets, II (Boston, n.d.), no. 50, p.6
6. Winthrop, quoted in Steven
Foster, The Long Argument: English Puritanism and the Shaping of New
England Culture
(Chapel Hill, 1991), p.109