Conversing by signs: poetics of implication in colonial New England culture
Robert Blair St. George
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.
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Godina:
1998
Izdavač:
University of North Carolina Press
Jezik:
english
ISBN 10:
0807823821
Fajl:
EPUB, 14.37 MB
IPFS:
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english, 1998