Miller, Perry 1905-1963
Overview
| Works: | 277 works in 1,626 publications in 6 languages and 39,188 library holdings |
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| Genres: | History Literature Criticism, interpretation, etc Sources Poetry Church history Diaries Essays Short stories Fiction |
| Roles: | Author, Editor, Originator, Other, Author of afterword, colophon, etc., Author of introduction, Creator, Contributor, Director, Composer |
| Classifications: | E169.1, 810.82 |
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Most widely held works about
Perry Miller
- The responsibility of mind in a civilization of machines : essays by Perry Miller( Book )
- Estate of Commodore Perry Miller : report (to accompany H.R. 1671) by United States( Book )
- Perry Miller and the historians by Edmund Sears Morgan( Book )
- Perry Miller and the social sciences : a matter of beginnings by Robert Zemsky( Book )
- American religious historiography : William Warren Sweet, Perry Miller and Sidney E. Mead by Bruce Wayne Stuart( )
- Peili Mile de qing jiao yan jiu = Perry Miller's studies on new England Puritanism by Mengyuan Zhang( Book )
- Perry Miller and American Puritan studies : a case study in scholarly community by Karen Anne Lystra( )
- Perry Miller and the ordeal of American freedom by Francis Tiffany Butts( )
- Perry Miller, 1905-1963 by Donald Fleming( Book )
- Perry Miller and the historians by Edmund Sears Morgan( )
- A utopian-mythopoesis reading of American Puritan jeremiads : a reclassification of selected seventeenth century New England pulpit literature by Thomas Clair Barnett( )
- Hoods received by Perry Miller with honorary degrees( Visual )
- Perry Miller : a study in historical sophistication by Wayne D Brazil( )
- Papers of Perry G.E. Miller by Perry Miller( )
- New England Puritanism : the interpretations of Vernon Louis Parrington and Perry Miller by Wesley Aquila Jones( )
- Perry Miller and the American mind( Book )
- Arthur O. Lovejoy papers by Arthur O Lovejoy( )
- Student notes for courses in economics, English, and history by Wilcomb E Washburn( )
- Wallace Notestein papers by Wallace Notestein( )
- Night watch in the city of Boston by Archibald MacLeish( Book )
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Most widely held works by
Perry Miller
The New England mind : from colony to province by
Perry Miller(
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97 editions published between 1953 and 2012 in English and Undetermined and held by 3,759 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
"Sequel to The New England mind: the seventeenth century." "Bibliographical notes": pages [487]-498
97 editions published between 1953 and 2012 in English and Undetermined and held by 3,759 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
"Sequel to The New England mind: the seventeenth century." "Bibliographical notes": pages [487]-498
The New England mind : the seventeenth century by
Perry Miller(
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101 editions published between 1939 and 2014 in English and Undetermined and held by 2,651 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
"Published September, 1939. First printing."
101 editions published between 1939 and 2014 in English and Undetermined and held by 2,651 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
"Published September, 1939. First printing."
The life of the mind in America, from the Revolution to the Civil War by
Perry Miller(
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72 editions published between 1965 and 2005 in 3 languages and held by 2,147 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Contains books 1-2, and part of book 3, of a work intended to be complete in 9 books. The parts after book 3, chapter 1, were never completed
72 editions published between 1965 and 2005 in 3 languages and held by 2,147 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Contains books 1-2, and part of book 3, of a work intended to be complete in 9 books. The parts after book 3, chapter 1, were never completed
Errand into the wilderness by
Perry Miller(
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79 editions published between 1956 and 2015 in English and Japanese and held by 2,105 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
"The title of this book by Perry Miller, who is world-famous as an interpreter of the American past, comes close to posing the question it has been Mr. Miller's lifelong purpose to answer: What was the underlying aim of the first colonists in coming to America? In what light did they see themselves? As men and women undertaking a mission that was its own cause and justification? Or did they consider themselves errand boys for a higher power which might, as is frequently the habit of authority, change its mind about the importance of their job before they had completed it? These questions are by no means frivolous. They go to the roots of seventeenth-century thought and of the ever-widening and quickening flow of events since then. Disguised from twentieth-century readers first by the New Testament language and thought of the Puritans and later by the complacent transcendentalist belief in the oversoul, the related problems of purpose and reason-for-being have been central to the American experience from the very beginning. Mr. Miller makes this abundantly clear and real, and in doing so allows the reader to conclude that, whatever else America might have become, it could never have developed into a society that took itself for granted. The title, Errand into the Wilderness, is taken from the title of a Massachusetts election sermon of 1670. Like so many jeremiads of its time, this sermon appeared to be addressed to the sinful and unregenerate whom God was about to destroy. But the original speaker's underlying concern was with the fateful ambiguity in the word errand. Whose errand? This crucial uncertainty of the age is the starting point of Mr. Miller's engrossing account of what happened to the European mind when, in spite of itself, it began to become something other than European. For the second generation in America discovered that their heroic parents had, in fact, been sent on a fool's errand, the bitterest kind of all; that the dream of a model society to be built in purity by the elect in the new continent was now a dream that meant nothing more to Europe. The emigrants were on their own. Thus left alone with America, who were they? And what were they to do? In this book, as in all his work, the author of The New England Mind: The Seventeenth Century; The New England Mind: From Colony to Province, and The Transcendentalists, emphasizes the need for understanding the human sources from which the American mainstream has risen. In this integrated series of brilliant and witty essays which he describes as "pieces," Perry Miller invites and stimulates in the reader a new conception of his own inheritance."--Amazon.com book description
79 editions published between 1956 and 2015 in English and Japanese and held by 2,105 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
"The title of this book by Perry Miller, who is world-famous as an interpreter of the American past, comes close to posing the question it has been Mr. Miller's lifelong purpose to answer: What was the underlying aim of the first colonists in coming to America? In what light did they see themselves? As men and women undertaking a mission that was its own cause and justification? Or did they consider themselves errand boys for a higher power which might, as is frequently the habit of authority, change its mind about the importance of their job before they had completed it? These questions are by no means frivolous. They go to the roots of seventeenth-century thought and of the ever-widening and quickening flow of events since then. Disguised from twentieth-century readers first by the New Testament language and thought of the Puritans and later by the complacent transcendentalist belief in the oversoul, the related problems of purpose and reason-for-being have been central to the American experience from the very beginning. Mr. Miller makes this abundantly clear and real, and in doing so allows the reader to conclude that, whatever else America might have become, it could never have developed into a society that took itself for granted. The title, Errand into the Wilderness, is taken from the title of a Massachusetts election sermon of 1670. Like so many jeremiads of its time, this sermon appeared to be addressed to the sinful and unregenerate whom God was about to destroy. But the original speaker's underlying concern was with the fateful ambiguity in the word errand. Whose errand? This crucial uncertainty of the age is the starting point of Mr. Miller's engrossing account of what happened to the European mind when, in spite of itself, it began to become something other than European. For the second generation in America discovered that their heroic parents had, in fact, been sent on a fool's errand, the bitterest kind of all; that the dream of a model society to be built in purity by the elect in the new continent was now a dream that meant nothing more to Europe. The emigrants were on their own. Thus left alone with America, who were they? And what were they to do? In this book, as in all his work, the author of The New England Mind: The Seventeenth Century; The New England Mind: From Colony to Province, and The Transcendentalists, emphasizes the need for understanding the human sources from which the American mainstream has risen. In this integrated series of brilliant and witty essays which he describes as "pieces," Perry Miller invites and stimulates in the reader a new conception of his own inheritance."--Amazon.com book description
The American Puritans, their prose and poetry by
Perry Miller(
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42 editions published between 1956 and 1982 in English and held by 2,037 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Selections from the writings of Puritans in New England in the first century of colonial life
42 editions published between 1956 and 1982 in English and held by 2,037 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Selections from the writings of Puritans in New England in the first century of colonial life
Jonathan Edwards by
Perry Miller(
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74 editions published between 1949 and 2005 in English and Undetermined and held by 2,028 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
"Perry Miller's study of Jonathan Edwards as a writer and an artist is regarded as one of the great studies of 'the life of the mind.' He challenges his readers to understand Edwards as an intellectual who, living in his own time and place, wrestled with issues relevant to the modern world"--Page 4 of cover
74 editions published between 1949 and 2005 in English and Undetermined and held by 2,028 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
"Perry Miller's study of Jonathan Edwards as a writer and an artist is regarded as one of the great studies of 'the life of the mind.' He challenges his readers to understand Edwards as an intellectual who, living in his own time and place, wrestled with issues relevant to the modern world"--Page 4 of cover
The transcendentalists : an anthology by
Perry Miller(
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50 editions published between 1950 and 2001 in 3 languages and held by 1,878 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
The philosophy explained in terms of selections from the writings of the chief adherents
50 editions published between 1950 and 2001 in 3 languages and held by 1,878 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
The philosophy explained in terms of selections from the writings of the chief adherents
The American transcendentalists : their prose and poetry by
Perry Miller(
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37 editions published between 1937 and 1996 in 3 languages and held by 1,732 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Anthology of works by New England writers of the early 1800's
37 editions published between 1937 and 1996 in 3 languages and held by 1,732 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Anthology of works by New England writers of the early 1800's
The Puritans by
Perry Miller(
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37 editions published between 1938 and 2014 in English and held by 1,690 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
"Critically acclaimed classic lets Puritans speak for themselves in crucial documents covering history, theory of state and society, religion, customs, behavior, biographies and letters, poetry, literary theory, education, science, and more. Regarded by historian Samuel Eliot Morison as 'the best selection ever made of Puritan literature, point of view and culture'"--Amazon.com
37 editions published between 1938 and 2014 in English and held by 1,690 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
"Critically acclaimed classic lets Puritans speak for themselves in crucial documents covering history, theory of state and society, religion, customs, behavior, biographies and letters, poetry, literary theory, education, science, and more. Regarded by historian Samuel Eliot Morison as 'the best selection ever made of Puritan literature, point of view and culture'"--Amazon.com
Roger Williams: his contribution to the American tradition by
Perry Miller(
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50 editions published between 1953 and 1997 in English and held by 1,628 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
"First edition." LWL 5754 W675 S953: Gift of Mrs. Lewis to Wilmarth Sheldon Lewis, Christmas 1953
50 editions published between 1953 and 1997 in English and held by 1,628 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
"First edition." LWL 5754 W675 S953: Gift of Mrs. Lewis to Wilmarth Sheldon Lewis, Christmas 1953
The raven and the whale; the war of words and wits in the era of Poe and Melville by
Perry Miller(
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42 editions published between 1955 and 1976 in English and held by 1,466 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
42 editions published between 1955 and 1976 in English and held by 1,466 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Major writers of America by
Perry Miller(
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29 editions published between 1962 and 1966 in 3 languages and held by 1,433 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Selections from the writings of fifteen important American authors, including portions of novels, short stories, prose and poems
29 editions published between 1962 and 1966 in 3 languages and held by 1,433 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Selections from the writings of fifteen important American authors, including portions of novels, short stories, prose and poems
Nature's nation by
Perry Miller(
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28 editions published between 1966 and 2014 in English and Undetermined and held by 1,416 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Essays on Puritanism's effect on the religious, philosophic and literary life in America and the tendency to see the U.S. as "nature's nation."
28 editions published between 1966 and 2014 in English and Undetermined and held by 1,416 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Essays on Puritanism's effect on the religious, philosophic and literary life in America and the tendency to see the U.S. as "nature's nation."
Consciousness in Concord; the text of Thoreau's hitherto "lost journal," 1840-1841 by
Henry David Thoreau(
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13 editions published between 1938 and 1985 in English and held by 1,141 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
13 editions published between 1938 and 1985 in English and held by 1,141 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
American thought: Civil War to World War I by
Perry Miller(
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48 editions published between 1954 and 1968 in English and Undetermined and held by 1,074 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
48 editions published between 1954 and 1968 in English and Undetermined and held by 1,074 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
The Great Awakening: documents illustrating the crisis and its consequences by
Alan Heimert(
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10 editions published between 1967 and 1978 in English and held by 1,055 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Of the Spirit / Jonathan Dickinson -- The government of the church of Christ / John Thomson -- A particular consideration of "the Querists" / Samuel Blair -- "The Querists," a short reply to Mr. Whitefield's letter -- The wonderful wandering Spirit -- Christ triumphing, and Satan raging / Samuel Finley -- Remarks upon a Protestation / Gilbert Tennent -- A display of God's special grace / Jonathan Dickinson -- Spiritual travels / Nathan Cole --. - Account of the revival at Lyme / Jonathan Parsons -- Gilbert Tennent's powerful preaching in Boston -- Account of the revival at Lyme / Jonathan Parsons -- A song of praise / James Davenport -- The distinguishing marks of a work of the Spirit / Jonathan Edwards -- The spirits of the present day tried / David McGregore -- Enthusi
10 editions published between 1967 and 1978 in English and held by 1,055 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Of the Spirit / Jonathan Dickinson -- The government of the church of Christ / John Thomson -- A particular consideration of "the Querists" / Samuel Blair -- "The Querists," a short reply to Mr. Whitefield's letter -- The wonderful wandering Spirit -- Christ triumphing, and Satan raging / Samuel Finley -- Remarks upon a Protestation / Gilbert Tennent -- A display of God's special grace / Jonathan Dickinson -- Spiritual travels / Nathan Cole --. - Account of the revival at Lyme / Jonathan Parsons -- Gilbert Tennent's powerful preaching in Boston -- Account of the revival at Lyme / Jonathan Parsons -- A song of praise / James Davenport -- The distinguishing marks of a work of the Spirit / Jonathan Edwards -- The spirits of the present day tried / David McGregore -- Enthusi
The legal mind in America : from independence to the Civil War by
Perry Miller(
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22 editions published between 1962 and 1969 in English and Undetermined and held by 944 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Twenty-three documents and speeches concerned with the emergence and the formulation of a theory of American law, edited with an introduction and notes by Perry Miller
22 editions published between 1962 and 1969 in English and Undetermined and held by 944 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Twenty-three documents and speeches concerned with the emergence and the formulation of a theory of American law, edited with an introduction and notes by Perry Miller
Orthodoxy in Massachusetts : 1630-1650 by
Perry Miller(
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27 editions published between 1933 and 2008 in English and held by 938 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
27 editions published between 1933 and 2008 in English and held by 938 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
The golden age of American literature by
Perry Miller(
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7 editions published between 1949 and 1959 in English and held by 815 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Short stories, essays, and poems written in the mid-nineteenth century when Poe, Emerson, Thoreau, Hawthorne, Melville and Whitman were writing
7 editions published between 1949 and 1959 in English and held by 815 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Short stories, essays, and poems written in the mid-nineteenth century when Poe, Emerson, Thoreau, Hawthorne, Melville and Whitman were writing
The Puritans by
Perry Miller(
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16 editions published between 1938 and 2014 in English and held by 757 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
16 editions published between 1938 and 2014 in English and held by 757 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
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Related Identities
- Edwards, Jonathan 1703-1758 Author
- Williams, Roger 1604?-1683 Author
- Johnson, Thomas Herbert Editor
- Poe, Edgar Allan 1809-1849
- Melville, Herman 1819-1891
- McCandlish, George Editor
- Clark, Lewis Gaylord 1808-1873
- Duyckinck, Evert A. (Evert Augustus) 1816-1878
- Gorey, Edward 1925-2000
- Thoreau, Henry David 1817-1862 Other Author
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Adams, Brooks, Adams, Henry, American essays American literature American literature--Colonial period American literature--English influences American literature--Puritan authors Authors, American Authors and publishers Authorship Brandeis, Louis Dembitz, Christian literature, American--Puritan authors Civilization Clark, Lewis Gaylord, Colonies in literature Congregational churches Covenant theology--History of doctrines Criticism Dewey, John, Duyckinck, Evert A.--(Evert Augustus), Edwards, Jonathan, George, Henry, Great Awakening Great Britain Holmes, Oliver Wendell,--Jr., Intellectual life James, William, Journal (Thoreau, Henry David) Law Literature publishing Massachusetts Melville, Herman, Miller, Perry, New England New England theology New York (State)--New York Peirce, Charles S.--(Charles Sanders), Philosophy, American Poe, Edgar Allan, Puritans Religion Religious literature, American Royce, Josiah, Sumner, William Graham, Thoreau, Henry David, Transcendentalism (New England) United States Veblen, Thorstein, Williams, Roger, Wright, Chauncey,
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Miller, Perry Eddy Gilbert 1905-1963
Miller, Perry G. 1905-1963
Miller Perry G.E.
Miller Perry Gilbert Eddy
Miller, Perry Gilbert Eddy 1905-1963
Perry Miller americký historik
Perry Miller Amerikaans historicus (1905-1963)
Perry Miller amerikansk historikar
Perry Miller amerikansk historiker
Perry Miller historiador estadounidense
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Perry Miller historian amerikan
Perry Miller historien américain
Perry Miller staraí Meiriceánach
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Перри Миллер
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