Lucas Hardy is Associate Professor of English at Youngstown State University, USA.

Hardy curates a compelling archive of writing about pain from antiquity to the present that creates a rich interpretive context for New England Puritan writing. His examination of discourses of pain offers a fresh approach to familiar Puritan authors, genres, and tropes.

• Introduction: Puritan Pain and the Doctrine of Affliction 1. Afflicting the Massachusetts Bay Colony 2. Sublimated Women’s Pain and the Puritan Public 3. Anne Bradstreet’s Poetics of Pain 4. Humoral Hunger and Comparative Melancholy in Mary Rowlandson’s Sovereignty and Goodness of God 5. Cotton Mather’s Grammar of Pain 6. New England Evangelicalism and the Limits of Affliction BibliographyIndex

Lucas Hardy is Associate Professor of English at Youngstown State University, USA.

Hardy curates a compelling archive of writing about pain from antiquity to the present that creates a rich interpretive context for New England Puritan writing. His examination of discourses of pain offers a fresh approach to familiar Puritan authors, genres, and tropes.

• Introduction: Puritan Pain and the Doctrine of Affliction 1. Afflicting the Massachusetts Bay Colony 2. Sublimated Women’s Pain and the Puritan Public 3. Anne Bradstreet’s Poetics of Pain 4. Humoral Hunger and Comparative Melancholy in Mary Rowlandson’s Sovereignty and Goodness of God 5. Cotton Mather’s Grammar of Pain 6. New England Evangelicalism and the Limits of Affliction BibliographyIndex