CRITICISM

Beam, Perry. “‘Sarah Pierrepont’ and the Gentle Side of Jonathan Edwards.” Pleiade 10, no. 1 (winter 1990): 38-42.

Discusses Jonathan Edwards's portrait of his wife.

Gustafson, Sandra. “Jonathan Edwards and the Reconstruction of ‘Feminine’ Speech.” American Literary History 6, no. 2 (summer 1994): 185-212.

Argues that Jonathan Edwards's alteration of his wife's and other's writings was in part a response to the threat to the patriarchal social order inherent in the erotic appeal of the feminine voice.

Additional coverage of Edwards's life and career is contained in the following sources published by the Gale Group: Dictionary of Literary Biography, Vol. 200; and Literature Resource Center.