The Interpretation of Material Shapes in Puritanism: A Study of Rhetoric, Prejudice, and ViolenceThe Interpretation of Material Shapes in Puritanism overturns many of our long held assumptions about the social and artistic values of Protestantism. Dr Ann Kibbey offers a detailed analysis of the rhetoric of the Puritan plain style, centring her argument on the influential preacher John Cotton and discloses a general theory of figuration in the Protestant tradition that has been overlooked by literary critics, historians and sociologists alike. The