Perry Miller - Influence

Influence

Miller's attempts to discover and to reveal the religious feelings and the religious ideas set a new standard for intellectual historiography. Historians report that Miller's work has been felt on several generations of historians, from Puritan studies to discussions of narrative theory.

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