| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 111.1

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Book Review

Canada and the United States

John McWilliams. New England's Crisis and Cultural Memory: Literature, Politics, History, Religion, 1620–1860. (Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture, number 142.) New York: Cambridge University Press. Pp. xii, 366. $70.00.

John McWilliams has written a remarkably erudite and wide-ranging study of New Englanders' self-perceptions and their transformations over time, from the early seventeenth century to the later nineteenth, even including some fascinating aper|$$|Accus of the past by more recent writers like Robert Lowell and Arthur Miller. Such an ambitious enterprise requires notable economy and rigorous organization, and for the most part McWilliams makes it work. The flow is compressed at times, and occasionally prolix, but almost always clear for anyone with basic background in early American history. There are a few unexplained allusive references, such as "Stoddardism" (p. 24) and "stadialist" (p. 130), which only veterans of Puritan studies will understand, but overall the book is a model of lucid exposition. It also includes useful comparisons with the relative absence of comparable historiographical traditions in the South, a point that Perry Miller made more than fifty years ago, but developed less fully.

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