Review Article: “American Religious Thought of the 18th and 19th Centuries”

1989 ◽  
Vol 58 (2) ◽  
pp. 211-217
Author(s):  
Mark A. Noll
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New England ◽  
John Dewey ◽  
Review Article ◽  
Jonathan Edwards ◽  
New Haven ◽  
Religious Thought ◽  
Harvard College ◽  
College Library ◽  
Garland Publishing

Perry Miller, with characteristic lése majesté, told readers of his New England Mind that, if they wanted to see his footnotes, they would have to make a pilgrimage to the Harvard College Library (The Seventeenth Century [New York, 1939], p. ix). Times have changed, and at least some scholars have become more accommodating. Bruce Kuklick, for example, not only provided notes for his “New England Mind”—the superb recent study Churchmen and Philosophers from Jonathan Edwards to John Dewey (New Haven, 1985)—but now, through the good offices of Garland Publishing, has made available many of the sources to which those notes refer in American Religious Thought of the 18th and 19th Centuries: A Thirty-two Volume Set Reprinting the Works of Leading American Theologians from Jonathan Edwards to John Dewey and including Recent Dissertations (New York: Garland Publishing, 1988), $2,290. Kuklick and Garland deserve highest commendation for rescuing from unwarranted obscurity the authors and works reprinted here. The set's title may be inaccurate, and one may quibble about the exact lineup of books and articles included, but these volumes remain a magnificent achievement.

Review Article : Ancien Regime and Enlightenment. Some Recent Writing on Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Europe Review Article Jeremy Black Roger Bartlett and Janet M. Hartley, eds, Russia in the Age of the Enlightenment. Essays for Isabel de Madariaga, London, Macmillan, 1990; x + 253 pp.; £45.00. Otto Büsch and Monika Neugebauer-Wölk, eds, Preussen und die Revo lutionäre Herausforderung seit 1789. Ergebnisse einer Konferenz, Berlin and New York, Walter de Gruyter, 1991; xv + 371 pp.; DM 168,-. Heinz Duchhardt, Altes Reich und europäische Staatenwelt 1648-1806, Munich, Oldenbourg, 1990; viii + 125 pp.; DM 64,- hardback, DM 28, paperback. Lindsey Hughes, Sophia, Regent of Russia 1657-1704, New Haven and London, Yale University Press, 1990; xvii + 345 pp.; £19.95. Peter Hulme and Ludmilla Jordanova, eds, The Enlightenment and its Shadows, London, Routledge, 1990; viii + 232 pp.; £35.00. Bernhard R. Kroener, ed., Europa im Zeitalter Friedrichs des Grossen: Wirtschaft, Gesellschaft, Kriege, Munich, Oldenbourg, 1989; 316 pp.; DM 48,-. Jerzy Lukowski, Liberty's Folly. The Polish—Lithuanian Commonwealth in the Eighteenth Century, London, Routledge, 1991; xx + 316 pp.; £40.00. Peter Nitschke, Verbrechensbekämpfung und Verwaltung. Die Entstehung der Polizei in der Grafschaft Lippe (1700-1814), Münster, Waxman, 1990; 222 pp.; DM 49,90. Robert A. Schneider, Public Life in Toulouse, 1463-1789. From Munici pal Republic to Cosmopolitan City, Ithaca, Cornell University Press, 1990; xiii + 395 pp.; US $49.95. H. M. Scott, ed., Enlightened Absolutism. Reform and Reformers in Later Eighteenth-Century Europe, London, Macmillan, 1990; x + 385 pp.; £35.00. Franco Venturi, The End of the Old Regime in Europe, 1776-1789: Vol. I: The Great States of the West, Vol. II: Republican Patriotism and the Empires of the East, translated by R. Burr Litchfield; Princeton, Prince ton University Press, 1991; xiv + 1044 pp.; US $75.00 together, or I: $42.50, II: $39.95

1992 ◽  
Vol 22 (2) ◽  
pp. 247-255 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jeremy Black
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Public Life ◽  
Review Article ◽  
New Haven ◽  
Yale University ◽  
Old Regime ◽  
The West ◽  
Cornell University ◽  
The Enlightenment

Jonathan Edwards and his Scottish Connections

1987 ◽  
Vol 21 (3) ◽  
pp. 353-376 ◽  
Author(s):  
Harold P. Simonson
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
Jonathan Edwards ◽  
New Haven ◽  
Christian Doctrine ◽  
Presbyterian Church ◽  
Yale College ◽  
Connecticut Valley ◽  
The One ◽  
The Town

It is customary to associate Jonathan Edwards with the town of Northampton. That he was born in East Windsor (Conn.), was graduated from Yale College in New Haven, served a Presbyterian church in New York City, wrote his great treatises – A Careful and Strict Enquiry into … Freedom of Will (1754) and The Great Christian Doctrine of Original Sin (1758) – in Stockbridge (Mass.), and died as president of the College of New Jersey in Princeton does not mitigate the local association. For it was in Northampton where Edwards came of age theologically. He served as its minister from 1729 to 1750, following his grandfather Solomon Stoddard, who had served the same parish for the preceding sixty years. As with the one, so with the other: Northampton was Stoddard and it was also Edwards, a dynasty holding sway for over eighty years and commanding the religious spirit up and down the length of the Connecticut Valley.

Royall Tyler

2022 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New England ◽  
Rhode Island ◽  
Military Service ◽  
John Adams ◽  
Harvard College ◽  
Royall Tyler ◽  
Bachelor Of Arts ◽  
May Day ◽  
Comic Drama

Royall Tyler (b. 1757–d. 1826) was born to a prominent merchant family in Boston and came of age in the decades leading up to the American Revolution. He entered Harvard College in 1771 and earned his bachelor of arts degree three months after the Declaration of Independence was signed in 1776. Tyler then enlisted in the Revolutionary Army, although he remained in Boston and Cambridge studying law. His active military service seems to have been limited to serving as a brigade major during the unsuccessful 1778 attempt to capture Newport, Rhode Island. As the war continued, Tyler earned his master of arts degree from Harvard in 1779 and engaged in a failed courtship of Abigail Adams, the daughter of future president John Adams. After the war, Tyler became involved in the suppression of Shays’ Rebellion in 1786. When Daniel Shays fled to Vermont, Tyler was assigned to negotiate with authorities in New York, which still laid claim to the territory, to ensure that the rebel did not find safe harbor. In New York City Tyler launched his literary career; in April 1787, The Contrast began its run in New York as the first professionally produced American comic drama and one of the first successful American plays. Months later Tyler produced a second play, May Day in Town, that is no longer extant. In 1790, Tyler returned to Boston and married Mary Palmer, who would later publish the first American manual for infant care. They relocated to Vermont, where the couple remained for the rest of their lives. In the years to follow, Tyler published numerous poems and essays, including a popular series of essays in collaboration with Joseph Dennie under the title of “Colon & Spondee.” In 1797, Tyler published the novel The Algerine Captive, which achieved moderate success and was one of the first American books to be republished in Great Britain. In the 1800s and 1810s Tyler served for six years as the chief justice of the Vermont Supreme Court and launched a failed bid for the U.S. Senate. He completed several new plays, including his biblical dramas and the epistolary satire The Yankey in London (1809). At the time of his death in 1826 he was rewriting the first half of The Algerine Captive as a New England picaresque titled The Bay Boy, which would remain unpublished until 1968.

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