The Sacred Game : Provincialism and Frontier Consciousness in American Literature, 1630-1860 (Paperback)

Preface; Introduction: provincialism and the frontier; 1. 'But enmity this amity did break'; 2. 'A musy in the thicket'; 3. Geoffrey Crayon and the gigantic race; 4. Hawthorne's provincial imagination; 5. Working in Eden; 6. Life as art in Americ; 7. Reading God directly: the morbidity of culture; Postscript: tradition and circumstance; Notes; Index.