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William J. Scheick BOOKS (Critical Studies): the Will and the Word: the Poetry of Edward Taylor. Athens: University of Georgia William J. Scheick BOOKS (critical studies): The Will and the Word: The Poetry of Edward Taylor. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1974. The Writings of Jonathan Edwards: Theme, Motif, and Style. College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 1975. The Slender Human Word: Emerson's Artistry in Prose. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1978. The Half-Blood: A Cultural Symbol in Nineteenth-Century American Fiction. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1979. The Splintering Frame: The Later Fiction of H. G. Wells. Victoria, B. C.: University of Victoria English Literary Studies, 1984. Fictional Structure and Ethics: The Turn-of-the-Century English Novel. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1990. Design in Puritan American Literature. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1992. Paine, Scripture, and Authority: The Age of Reason as Religious and Political Idea. (With Edward H. Davidson) Bethlehem: Lehigh University Press, 1994. The Ethos of Romance at the Turn of the Century. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1994. Authority and Female Authorship in Colonial America. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1998. BOOKS (editions and edited collections): The Life and Death of That Reverend Man of God, Mr. Richard Mather. By Increase Mather. Bainbridge, New York: York Mail-Print, 1974. The Writings of Patrick White: Theme, Technique, and Tradition. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1979. [TSLL, 21 (Summer, 1979).] Critical Essays on Jonathan Edwards. Boston: G. K. Hall, 1979. Three Contemporary Women Novelists: Hazzard, Ozick, and Redmon. (With Catherine Rainwater) Austin: University of Texas Press, 1983. [TSLL, 25 (Summer, 1983).] Contemporary American Women Writers: Narrative Strategies. (With Catherine Rainwater) Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1985. Two Mather Biographies: Life and Death and Parentator. Bethlehem: Lehigh University Press, 1989. The Critical Response to H. G. Wells. New York: Greenwood Press, 1995. Structures of Belief / Narrative Structures. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1995. [TSLL, 37 (Winter 1995).] Alice Maude Ewell's Atlantic Monthly Fiction, 1892-1905. Delmar, N. Y.: Scholars' Facsimiles & Reprints, 1997. Alice Maude Ewell's Peterson's Magazine Fiction, 1883-1893. Delmar, N. Y.: Scholars' Facsimiles & Reprints, 1998. Alice Maude Ewell’s Manuscripts and Miscellaneous Writings. Ann Arbor, Michigan: Scholars' Facsimiles & Reprints, 2008. BOOKS (bibliographies): Seventeenth-Century American Poetry: A Reference Guide. (With JoElla Doggett) Boston: G. K. Hall, 1977. H. G. Wells: A Reference Guide. (With J. Randolf Cox) Boston: G. K. Hall, 1988. ARTICLES (1500-1800): "A Viper's Nest, the Featherbed of Faith: Edward Taylor on the Will," Early American Literature, 5 (Fall 1970): 45-56. "Anonymity and Art in The Life and Death of That Reverend Man of God, Mr. Richard Mather," American Literature, 42 (January 1971): 457-467. "Nonsense from a Lisping Child: Edward Taylor on the Word as Piety," Texas Studies in Literature and Language: 13 (Spring 1971), 39-53. "Tending the Lord in All Admiring Style: Edward Taylor's Preparatory Meditations," Language and Style, 4 (Summer, 1971): 163-187. "Nathaniel Ward's Cobbler as 'Shoem-Aker'," English Language Notes, 9 (December, 1971): 100-102. "Man's Wildred State and the Curious Needlework of Providence: The Self in Edward Taylor's Preparatory Meditations," Tennessee Studies in Literature, 17 (1972): 129-137. "Morton's New English Canaan," Explicator, 31 (February 1973): item 47. "The Widower Narrator in Nathaniel Ward's The Simple Cobler of Aggawam in America," New England Quarterly, 47 (March 1974): 87-96. Reprinted in Literature Criticism from 1400 to 1800, Vol. 113, ed. Schoenberg (Detroit: Gale Research, 2005), pp. "The Theme of Necessity in Bradford's Of Plymouth Plantation," Seventeenth-Century News, 32 (Winter 1974): 88-90. Reprinted in the Electronic Library by Encyclopedia.com (2000). "Family, Conversion, and the Self in Jonathan Edwards' A Faithful Narrative of the Surprising Work of God," Tennessee Studies in Literature, 19 (1974): 79-89. "Standing in the Gap: Urian Oakes's Elegy on Thomas Shepard," Early American Literature, 9 (Winter 1975): 301-306. "Typology and Allegory: A Comparative Study of George Herbert and Edward Taylor," Essays in Literature, 2 (Spring 1975): 76-86. "The Grand Design: Jonathan Edwards' History of the Work of Redemption," Eighteenth- Century Studies, 8 (Spring 1975): 300-314. Reprinted in Critical Essays on Jonathan Edwards (Boston: G. K. Hall, 1979), pp. 177-188. "'That Blazing Star in Joshua': Edward Taylor's 'Meditation 2.10' and Increase Mather's Kometographia," Seventeenth-Century News, 34 (Summer-Fall 1976): 36-37. "Chaos and Imaginative Order in Thomas Jefferson's Notes on the State of Virginia," in Essays in Early Virginia Literature, ed. J. A. Leo Lemay (New York: Burt Franklin & Co., 1977), pp. 221-234. "'The Inward Tacles and the Outward Traces': Edward Taylor's Elusive Transitions," Early American Literature, 12 (Fall 1977): 163-176. "The Jawbones Schema of Edward Taylor's Gods Determinations," in Puritan Influences in American Literature, ed. Emory Elliott (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1979), pp. 38-54. "Introduction," Critical Essays on Jonathan Edwards (Boston: G. K. Hall, 1980), pp. ix-xxv. "Seventeenth-Century American Poetry: A Reference Guide Updated [1971-1980]," Resources for American Literary Study, 10 (Autumn 1980): 121-145. [With Catherine Rainwater.] "The Problem of Origination in Brown's Ormond," Critical Essays on Charles Brockden Brown, ed. Bernard Rosenthal (Boston: G. K. Hall, 1981), pp. 126-141. "Telling a Wonder: Dialectic in the Writings of John Bartram," The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, 107 (April 1983): 235-248. Expanded version printed in Dictionary of Literary Biography, Volume 31: American Colonial Writers, 1735-1781, ed. Emory Elliott (Detroit: Gale Research Co., 1984), pp. 22-32. "Edward Taylor's Optics," American Literature, 55 (May 1983), 234-240. "Edward Taylor's Herbalism in Preparatory Meditations," American Poetry, 1 (Fall 1983): 64-71. "Roger Wolcott," Dictionary of Literary Biography, Volume 24: American Colonial Writers, 1606-1734, ed. Emory Elliott (Detroit: Gale Research Co., 1984), pp. 372-376. "Phillis Wheatley and Oliver Goldsmith: A Fugitive Satire," Early American Literature, 19 (Spring 1984): 82-84. "Tombless Virtue and Hidden Text: New England Puritan Funeral Elegies," Puritan Poetry and Poetics: Seventeenth-Century American Poetry in Theory and Practice, ed. Peter White (University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1985), pp. 286-302. "The Poetry of Colonial America," The Columbia History of American Literature, ed. Emory Elliott (New York: Columbia University Press, 1987), pp. 83-97. "Order and Disorder in Taylor's Poetry: Meditation 1.8," American Poetry, 5 (Winter 1988): 2-11. "Education, Class, and the French Revolution in Sarah Wood's Julia," Studies in American Fiction, 16 (Spring 1988): 111-118. "The Theme, Structure, and Symbolism of Anne Bradstreet's "Contemplations'," Américana [Institut d'Études Anglaises et Nord-Américaines, Université de Paris], 4 (1989): 147-156. "Anonymity and Signature: Two Mather Biographies," Two Mather Biographies (Bethlehem: Lehigh University Press, 1989), pp. 11-32. "Unfolding the Serpent in Taylor's 'Meditation 1.19'," Studies in Puritan American Spirituality, 1 (1990): 34-64. "'An Allegorical Description of a Certain Island and Its Inhabitants': Eighteenth-Century Parable or Satire?" New England Quarterly, 63 (September 1990): 468-474. [Letter, NEQ, 64 (December 1991), 665-666.] "Benjamin Franklin and Lord Bute: Legendary Eighteenth-Century Representations," Library Chronicle, 20, no. 3 (1990): 64-73. "Authority in Paine's Common Sense and Crisis Papers," Studies in the Humanities, 18 (December 1991): 124-134. [With Edward H. Davidson.] "Phillis Wheatley's Appropriation of Isaiah," Early American Literature, 27 (Fall 1992): 135- 140. "The Other Song in Phillis Wheatley's 'On Imagination'," Studies in the Literary Imagination, 27 (Spring 1994): 71-84. (With Michele McKay.) Reprinted in 'All Things to All People': Reinventing America 500 Years after Columbus, ed. Reiner Smolinski (New York: AMS Press, 199 ), pp. "Logonomic Conflict in Bradstreet's 'Letter to Her Husband'," Essays in Literature, 21 (Fall 1994): 166-184. Reprinted in the Electronic Library by Encyclopedia.com (2000). Reprinted in Literature Criticism from 1400 to 1800, Vol. 130, ed. Thomas J. Schoenberg and Lawrence J. Trudeau (Detroit: Thomson Gale, 2007), pp. 14-24. "Friendship and Idolatry in Esther Edwards Burr's Letters," University of Mississippi Studies in English, n.s. 11-12 (1993-95): 138-50. "The Newtonians and the Transmission of Authority," Library Chronicle, 25, no. 3 (1995): 31 -49. "Authority and Witchery: Cotton Mather's Ornaments and Mary English's Acrostic," Arizona Quarterly, 51 (Spring 1995): 1-32. "Subjection and Prophecy in Phillis Wheatley's Verse Paraphrases of Scripture," College Literature, 22, iii (October 1995): 122-30. Reprinted in the Electronic Library by Encyclopedia.com (2000). "Taylor's 'Prologue'," Explicator, 55 (Fall 1996): 12-14. "Logonomic Conflict in Hanson's Captivity Narrative and Ashbridge's Autobiography," The Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation, 37 (1996): 3-21. Reprinted in Literature Criticism from 1400 to 1800, Volume 147, ed. Thomas J. Schoenberg and Lawrence J. Trudeau (2008). "Puritan Ethos in a Renaissance Garden," English Language Notes, 37 (1999):
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