Colonial revivals : the Nineteenth-Century lives of early American books /

Colonial revivals : the Nineteenth-Century lives of early American books /

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In the long nineteenth century, the specter of lost manuscripts loomed in the imagination of antiquarians, historians, and writers. Whether by war, fire, neglect, or the ravages of time itself, the colonial history of the United States was perceived as a vanishing record, its archive a hoard of mate...

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Main Author: DiCuirci, Lindsay
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2019]
Series:Material texts.
Subjects:
1600-1899
Reprints (Publications) > Publishing > United States > History > 19th century.
Early printed books > Appreciation > United States > History > 19th century.
Books and reading > United States > History > 19th century.
American literature > Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 > History and criticism.
United States > History > Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 > Historiography > 19th century.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
Online Access:CONNECT
Table of Contents:
  • Cover; Contents; Introduction; Chapter 1. Lost and Found: Antiquarianism and the Fantasy of Preservation; Chapter 2. Puritan Redux: John Winthrop and Cotton Mather in Nineteenth- Century New England; Chapter 3. The South in Fragments: Printing Anachronisms in the Old Dominion; Chapter 4. The Letter and the Spirit: Materializing Quaker History and Myth; Chapter 5. Romance and Repulsion: The Imperial Archive and Washington Irving's Columbus; Epilogue. (Re)Born Digital; Notes; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; X; Y; Z; Acknowledgments

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