Conversing by signs : poetics of implication in colonial New England culture /

"The people of colonial New England lived in a densely metaphoric landscape - a world where familiars invaded bodies without warning, witches passed with ease through locked doors, and houses blew down in gusts of angry providential wind. Meaning, Robert St. George argues, was layered, often in...

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Main Author: St. George, Robert Blair
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Chapel Hill, N.C. : University of North Carolina Press, ©1998.
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Online Access:CONNECT