Manhood and the American Renaissance

In 1980, when my book on Puritans had just come out, one of my more well-known colleagues sat down in my office to read the jacket flap. 'Oh, ' He said, with a touch of disdain. 'You're actually saying something.' This book, too, is actually saying something-more readably, I hope. My colleague's spontaneous reaction expressed the prevailing postromatic values of the profession, which dazzle of critical sensibility playing over texts.David Leverenz is the author of 'Manhood and the American Renaissance', published 1990 under ISBN 9780801497438 and ISBN 0801497434.