| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 105.1

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Book Review

Canada and the United States

John R. Fitzmier. New England's Moral Legislator: Timothy Dwight, 1752–1817. (Religion in North America.) Bloomington: Indiana University Press. 1998. Pp. xi, 261. $39.95.

Preacher, theologian, poet, college president, and grandson of Jonathan Edwards, Timothy Dwight was known as the "Pope of Federalism." Political and religious histories of early republican New England have duly recognized Dwight's far-flung activism in support of the status quo. Moreover, in recent years literary scholars have offered significant studies of Dwight's poetry and prose. Epic neoclassical poems such as Greenfield Hill (1794) and the monumental exploration of regional cultural geography in Travels in New England and New York (1823) represent New England as the republic's republic: a Federalist landscape of order and institutionalism that offered a model of morality, industry, and stability for the young nation. Yet if we have up-to-date studies of his literary contributions and persuasive assessments of his activities as a clerical impresario of New England Federalism, the same cannot be said for Dwight the religious thinker and reformer. John R. Fitzmier offers an intellectual biography of Dwight that surveys his thought and evaluates his place in New England religious history. . . .

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