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The crossroads of American history and literature /
The Crossroads of American History and Literature collects two decades' worth of the best-known essays of Philip F. Gura. Beginning with a definitive overview of studies of colonial literature, Gura ranges through such subjects in colonial American history as the intellectual life of the Connec...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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University Park :
Pennsylvania State University Press,
©1996.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Intro
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Tangents to a Sphere
- 1. The Study of Colonial American Literature, 1966-1987: A Vade Mecum
- 2. Preparing the Way for Stoddard: Eleazer Mather's Serious Exhortation to Northampton
- 3. Cotton Mather's Life of Phips: "A Vice with the Vizard of Vertue Upon It"
- 4. Solomon Stoddard's Irreverent Way
- 5. Sowing for the Harvest: The Reverend William Williams and the Great Awakening
- 6. Early Nineteenth-Century Printing in Rural Massachusetts: John Howe of Greenwich and Enfield, c. 1803-1845
- 7. The Reverend Parsons Cooke and Ware Factory Village: A New Missionary Field
- 8. The Transcendentalists and Language: The Unitarian Exegetical Background
- 9. Elizabeth Palmer Peabody and the Philosophy of Language
- 10. Manufacturing Guitars for the American Parlor: James Ashborn's Wolcottville, Connecticut, Factory, 1851-1856
- 11. Thoreau and John Josselyn
- 12. Thoreau's Maine Woods Indians: More Representative Men
- 13. Language and Meaning: An American Tradition
- Notes
- Index
- About the Author
- Back Cover