"A NEW ELECTION, A NEW PRETERITION": EARLY NEW ENGLAND'S CALVINISM AND THE HEGEMONIC FRAMEWORK OF GRAVITY'S RAINBOW.

The article focuses on the novel "Gravity's Rainbow," by Thomas Pynchon. The author explores how the book relates to the Protestant religious system of John Calvin and his followers known as Calvinism in early New England, examines how Calvinism connects to American Puritanism, and compares these religions to counterculture.