Conversing by Signs Poetics of Implication in Colonial New England Culture |
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| Author:
| St. George, Robert Blair |
| ISBN: | 978-0-8078-4688-9 |
| Publication Date: | May 1998 |
| Publisher: | University of North Carolina Press
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | AUD $110.00AUD $71.00 |
Book Description:
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The author demonstrates how New England colonialists lived in a densely metaphoric landscape, exploring the links between such cultural expressions as witchcraft narratives and 18th-century crowd violence. He questions the actual impact of the Enlightenment on this climate of fear and instability.
The author demonstrates how New England colonialists lived in a densely metaphoric landscape, exploring the links between such cultural expressions as witchcraft narratives and 18th-century crowd violence. He questions the actual impact of the Enlightenment on this climate of fear and instability.