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Author: Phillip H. Round
Publisher: UPNE
Published: 1999
Total Pages: 340
ISBN-13: 9780874519297
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A major reexamination of New England's cultural society, in which Puritans share the stage with many other discourses.
Author: Jeffrey L. Pasley
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 452
ISBN-13: 9780807855584
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In pursuit of a more sophisticated and inclusive American history, the contributors to Beyond the Founders propose new directions for the study of the political history of the republic before 1830. In ways formal and informal, symbolic and tactile,
Author: Bruce R. Sievers
Publisher: UPNE
Published: 2010
Total Pages: 226
ISBN-13: 1584658959
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Traces the historical development of civil society and philanthropy in the West and analyzes their role in solving the problems faced by modern liberal democracy
Author: Michelle Burnham
Publisher: Dartmouth College Press
Published: 2014-06-14
Total Pages: 233
ISBN-13: 1611686849
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Folded Selves radically refigures traditional portraits of seventeenth-century New England literature and culture by situating colonial writing within the spatial, transnational, and economic contexts that characterized the early-modern "world system" theorized by Immanuel Wallerstein and others. Michelle Burnham rethinks American literary history and the politics of colonial dissent, and her book breaks new ground in making the economic relations of investment, credit, and trade central to this new framework for early American literary and cultural study. Transcontinental colonialism and mercantile capitalism underwrote not just the emerging world system but New World writing -- suggesting that early modern literary aesthetics and the early modern economy helped to sponsor each other. Burnham locates in New England's literature of dissent -- from Ma-re Mount to the Salem witchcraft trials -- a persistent use of economic language, as well as competing economies of style. The brilliance of Burnham's study is that it exposes the transoceanic material and commercial concerns of colonial America's literature and culture of dissent.
Author: P. Pender
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2014-11-20
Total Pages: 214
ISBN-13: 1137342439
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This collection examines the diverse material cultures through which early modern women's writing was produced, transmitted, and received. It focuses on the ways it was originally packaged and promoted, how it circulated in its contemporary contexts, and how it was read and received in its original publication and in later revisions and redactions.
Author: Jane Donahue Eberwein
Publisher: Univ of Wisconsin Press
Published: 1978-07-21
Total Pages: 398
ISBN-13: 0299074439
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Here is the first major-figure anthology of American poetry of the colonial and early national periods, an indispensable volume for both students and scholars of American literature and civilization. Five major literary figures are spotlighted: Anne Bradstreet (1612-1672), Edward Taylor (1642?"-1729), Timothy Dwight (1752-1817), Philip Freneau (1752-1832), and William Cullen Bryant (1794-1878). An introduction to each chapter summarizes the life of the poet, reviews his or her literary career, describes and evaluates artistic achievement, and places the poet in an intellectual context. The writer's relationship to changing religious, philosophical, political, and cultural patters is established. The contemporary perspective is augmented by the inclusion of an appendix which presents three important poems by other writers: Micheal Wigglesworth's "God's Controversy with New England," Ebenezer Cook's The Sot-Weed Factor, and Joel Barlow's "Hasty Pudding." Eberwein goes beyond the most popular and familiar works to include those of unrecognized literary merit, presenting a thoroughly unique approach which illuminates the full range of the writers' themes, forms and poetic voices.
Author: Kathrynn Seidler Engberg
Publisher: University Press of America
Published: 2010
Total Pages: 119
ISBN-13: 0761846093
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The Right to Write examines how the early American poets Anne Bradstreet and Phillis Wheatley gained agency within a traditionally patriarchal field of literary production. Tracing the careers of Bradstreet and Wheatley through the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, Engberg shows that these women used their positions within society to network themselves into publication. Each woman represents a unique way in which a majority of early American women negotiated their roles as both women and writers while influencing the political and social fabric of the new republic. Examining the context in which these women worked, Engberg provides a window into the social conditions and aesthetic, decisions they negotiated in order to write. This is not simply a historical and literary examination of the field of literary production; this study provides new conceptions of early American women's writing that are valuable to feminist inquiry. Engberg's research is innovative and recaptures a part of early American literary history. Book jacket.
Author: Dan Pallotta
Publisher: UPNE
Published: 2010
Total Pages: 338
ISBN-13: 1584659556
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A courageous call to free charity from its ideological and economic constraints
Author: Brian O'Connell
Publisher: UPNE
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 254
ISBN-13: 9781584654766
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Stories from a fascinating life devoted to providing opportunities for citizens to improve their lives, strengthen their communities, and empower democracy.
Author: Jeffrey Glover
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: 2014-05-14
Total Pages: 328
ISBN-13: 0812245962
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In many accounts of Native American history, treaties are synonymous with tragedy. From the beginnings of settlement, Europeans made and broke treaties, often exploiting Native American lack of alphabetic literacy to manipulate political negotiation. But while colonial dealings had devastating results for Native people, treaty making and breaking involved struggles more complex than any simple contest between invaders and victims. The early colonists were often compelled to negotiate on Indian terms, and treaties took a bewildering array of shapes ranging from rituals to gestures to pictographs. At the same time, Jeffrey Glover demonstrates, treaties were international events, scrutinized by faraway European audiences and framed against a background of English, Spanish, French, and Dutch imperial rivalries. To establish the meaning of their agreements, colonists and Natives adapted and invented many new kinds of political representation, combining rituals from tribal, national, and religious traditions. Drawing on an archive that includes written documents, printed books, orations, landscape markings, wampum beads, tally sticks, and other technologies of political accounting, Glover examines the powerful influence of treaty making along the vibrant and multicultural Atlantic coast of the seventeenth century.
