The Meritorious Price of Our Redemption by William Pynchon (1590 - 1662): A Facsimile Edition of the 1650 Original with an Introduction and Editorial Apparatus(10 Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI Studies) Studies in Science, Technology and Culture)

Table of Contents:
Contents: Meritorious Price: Of our Redemption A Facsimile Edition reproduces a seventeenth-century theological treatise that was deemed heretical in Boston in 1650. It includes three introductory essays tracing the theologicaland literary implications of this work by William Pynchon and his its impact on descendent Thomas Pynchon.

About the Author :
The Editors: Michael W. Vella is Professor of American Literature at Indiana University of Pennsylvania where he teaches Puritan and postmodern American literature. Lance Schachterle is Professor of English and Director of International Studies at Worcester Polytechnic Institute in Massachusetts. Louis Mackey is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Texas at Austin where he teaches literature and philosophy. All three professors have numerous publications and share a scholarly interest in Thomas Pynchon's works.

Review :
I welcome the fact that (the editors) are making this rare work available...It is very much concerned with the issue of textual exegesis and that gives it a particular interest for contemporary students. Moreover, with earlier notions of the monolithic nature of American Puritanism now yielding to a sense of the political and theological diversity that existed within that movement, texts such as 'Meritorious Price' that were previously regarded as eccentric take on greater importance. I am intrigued by the suggestion that 'Gravity's Rainbow' not only plays off against the Pynchon family career and the existence of 'Meritorious Price' but is, in effect, a postmodernist rewriting of 'Meritorious Price'. (Larzer Ziff, Johns Hopkins University) The editors are to be congratulated for bringing to our attention a rare seventeenth-century New England tract that also figures in the work of one of our greatest contemporary authors. Scholars of early American literature and culture will be pleased to have so little known an example of radical New England Puritanism in a convenient format and with a detailed introduction. (Philip F. Gura, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) It's an odd match when students of American seventeenth-century and postmodernist writing come together over a text. But here it is. We're very much in your debt for recovering it, some 342 years after that first debut on the Boston Commons. (Steven Weisenburger, University of Kentucky)