Michael Lee
Nikki Morrell
Eng III
7 December 2011
Annotated Bibliography
Research Question: What was the Puritan’s attitude toward crime and punishment as portrayed in the novel “The Scarlet Letter” by Nathanial Hawthorne?
Winthrop, John, The History of New England 1630 to 1649 James Kendall Hosmer (ed.) (1908); Erikson, Kai T. Wayward Puritans (1966). Print.
This book gives an eyewitness of the public execution of a woman and a man who committed adultery in seventeenth century New England. The author was the first governor of Massachusetts and he describes an eyewitness account of the of the execution. I am using this book because it will help us to understand the attitudes toward moral sins and punishment in Puritan New England.
CHU, JONATHAN M. Neighbors, Friends, or Madmen: The Puritan Adjustment to Quakerism in Seventeenth-Century Massachusetts Bay.
Connecticut: Greenwood Press, Questia. 1985. 1-212. Print.
This book explains the rise of religious toleration in America through an examination of the Puritan response to Quakerism in seventeenth-century Massachusetts. The book casts the phenomenon in a new light, arguing that toleration for Quakerism emerged out of the very values and structures of Puritan life in Massachusetts Bay as early as the 1660s. I am using this book because it will show more about what Puritans did toward crime and punishment.
Smith, Roger. The History of Incarceration. Philadelphia: Mason Crest, Questia. 2007. 3-112. Print. <http://www.questiaschool.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=112921987>
Examines the history of punishment and imprisonment, including Babylon's Code of Hammurabi, Europe's medieval dungeons, and modern prisons, and discusses how ancient ideas have contribued to modern practices. Roger Smith was born in Johannesburg and now lives in Cape Town. His debut thriller, Mixed Blood (2009), was published in six countries and won the Deutscher Krimi Preis (German Crime Prize). His book was a 10 best pick of the Philadelphia Enquirer, Times (South Africa) and Krimiwelt (Germany) and was nominated for the German Krimi-Blitz Reader's Award .I'm using this book because I can see and figured out what puritan did and how they did and why.
Seelye, John. Memory's Nation: The Place of Plymouth Rock. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, Questia. 1998. iii-704. Print.
Long celebrated as a symbol of the country's origins, Plymouth Rock no longer receives much national attention. In fact, historians now generally agree that the Pilgrims' storied landing on the Rock never actually took place? The tradition having emerged more than a century after the arrival of the Mayflower. John Seelye is Graduate Research Professor of American Literature at UF. Before moving to Gainesville in 1984, he was Distinguished Alumni Service Professor at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, and had also taught at the University of Connecticut and the University of California, Berkeley. Seelye received his BA from Wesleyan in 1953 and his PhD from the Claremont Graduate School in 1961.
