Roger Williams and John Milton: the calling of the Puritan writer / O. Glade Hunsaker -- "The posy unity": Anne Bradstreet's search for order / Emily Stipes Watts -- The jawbones schema of Edward Taylor's Gods determinations / William J. Scheick -- The example of Edwards: idealist imagination and the metaphysics of sovereignty / Michael J. Colacurcio -- The Puritan roots of American Whig rhetoric / Emory Elliott -- Resolution in The marble faun: a minority view / Claudia D. Johnson -- Travelling in Concord: the world of Thoreau's journal / William L. Howarth -- Herman Melville's wandering Jews / Bernard Rosenthal -- God, father, and lover in Emily Dickinson's poetry / Nina Baym.