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Through a Glass Darkly : Reflections on Personal Identity in Early America
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Chapel Hill :
Omohundro Institute of Early American History & Culture,
1997.
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Preface
- Introduction: In Search of a Metaphor
- PART I: HISTORIES OF SELF
- Histories of Self
- The Cast of His Countenance"": Reading Andrew Montour
- Communal Definitions of Gendered Identity in Seventeenth-Century English America
- Making History: The Force of Public Opinion and the Last Years of Slavery in Revolutionary Massachusetts
- The Unhappy Stephen Arnold"": An Episode of Murder and Penitence in the Early Republic
- The Suicide of a Notary: Language, Personal Identity, and Conquest in Colonial New York
- PART II: TEXTS OF SELF
- Texts of Self
- The Revolution in Selves: Black and White Inner Aliens
- Stories and Constructions of Identity: Folk Tellings and Diary Inscriptions in Revolutionary Virginia
- Hannah Barnard's Cupboard: Female Property and Identity in Eighteenth-Century New England
- Colonial Self-Fashioning: Paradoxes and Pathologies in the Construction of Genteel Identity in Eighteenth-Century America
- PART III: REFLECTIONS ON DEFINING SELF
- Reflections on Defining Self
- The Self Shaped and Misshaped: The Protestant Temperament Reconsidered
- I Have Suffer'd Much Today"": The Defining Force of Pain in Early America
- Although I am dead, I am not entirely dead. I have left a second of myself"": Constructing Self and Persons on the Middle Ground of Early America
- An Inner Diaspora: Black Sailors Making Selves
- Index
- A
- B
- C
- D
- E
- F
- G
- H
- I
- J
- K
- M
- N
- O
- P
- Q
- R
- S
- T
- U
- V
- W
- Y
- Z
- Notes on the Contributors