American Fanatics, Heretics, and Rebels: Hot Protestants and Religious Strife in Early American Literature, 1620-1865

Introduction Setting the Stage, or Grist for the Mill
I. Big Picture, Big Questions
II. Outcomes
III. How to Be Successful in This Course
IV. Suggestions for Further Reading

Chapter One Puritanical Confluences: Let’s Get Out of This Country!
I. The Protestant Reformation in Brief
II. Introducing William Bradford (1590–1657)
III. Introducing Of Plymouth Plantation
IV. Introducing John Winthrop (1588–1649)
V. Introducing “A Model of Christian Charity”
VI. Suggestions for Further Reading

Chapter Two Trouble Inside the Ranks: The Antinomian Controversy
I. To Work or Not to Work: That Is the Question
II. Introducing John Cotton’s Sixteene Questions and the Elders’ Reply
III. Introducing John Wheelwright’s Fast-Day Sermon
IV. Introducing Thomas Welde’s Preface
V. Introducing Cotton Mather’s Essays to Do Good
VI. Suggestions for Further Reading

Chapter Three Trouble Outside the Ranks: The Quaker “Invasion”
I. Missionaries on Fire
II. Introducing Nathaniel Ward’s The Simple Cobler of Aggawam
III. Introducing Francis Higginson’s A Brief Relation of the Irreligion of the Northern Quakers
IV. Introducing George Bishop’s New England Judged by the Spirit of the Lord
V. Introducing Roger Williams’s “A Letter to the Town of Providence”
VI. Suggestions for Further Reading

Chapter Four Women in Trouble: War, Witches, and Wives Done Wrong 
I. War, Witches, and Wives
II. Introducing Anne Bradstreet’s “The Flesh and the Spirit”
III. Introducing Mary Rowlandson’s The Soveraignty and Goodness of God
Introducing Cotton Mather’s “The Tryal of G. B. at a Court of Oyer and Terminer”
V. Introducing Abigail Abbot Bailey’s Memoirs
VI. Suggestions for Further Reading

Chapter Five Awakenings: Revivalism, the Puritan Conversion Experience, and Revolution

I. Revival, Conversion, Revolution

II. Introducing Jonathan Edwards’s “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God”

III. Introducing Phillis Wheatley’s “On the Death of the Rev.  Mr. George Whitefield”

IV. Introducing Jarena Lee’s The Life and Religious Experience of Jarena Lee, A Coloured Lady

V. Suggestions for Further Reading