Godly letters: the literature of the American Puritans

A costly Canaan : Morton and the margins of American literature

Advancing the gospel, dividing the church : design and vision in Bradford's Plymouth

"A strange poise of spirit" : the life and deaths of Thomas Shepard

The charter and the "model" : writing Winthrop's holy state

Doubt's venture, faith's call : Shepard's activist Calvinism

Regeneration through violence : Hooker and the morale of preparation

Primitive comfort : the spiritual witness of John Cotton

Wives and lovers : reaction and the gender of Puritanism

Marching orders : Johnson's summary syntax

Government in exile : Williams and the decay of dialogue

Epilogue: "God's altar" : the fall to poetry.