Shea, Daniel B. Spiritual Autobiography in Early America (Wisconsin Studies in American Autobiography). Madison, Wisconsin: The University of Wisconsin Press, 1988. First Edition. ISBN: 0299116506. [10566]
Black cloth, no dust jacket, 8 3/4 x 5 3/4 inches, xxix, 290 clean pp., with bibliography & index. Very good. Hardcover.
"The work here published remains, I believe, a useful introduction to a number of the more prominent examples of spiritual autobiography written by Puritans and Quakers before 1800, as well as the the affective dimension of religious experience in that period." - Preface.
Examines the autobiographies of John Churchman, Thomas Chalkley, David Ferris, Elizabeth Ashbridge, Edward Taylor, John Winthrop, Anne Bradstreet, Roger Clap, John Dane, Thomas Shepherd, Increase Mather, Cotton Mather, Elizabeth White, Jonathan Edwards, Nathan Cole, and Samuel Hopkins.
