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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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Chapel Hill, N.C. :
University of North Carolina Press,
©1998.
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| Online Access: | CONNECT |
| Summary: | "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 indirect and inextricably intertwined with memory, apprehension, and imagination. By exploring the linkages between such cultural expressions as seventeenth-century farmsteads, witchcraft narratives, eighteenth-century crowd violence, and popular portraits of New England Federalists, St. George demonstrates that in early New England, things mattered as much as words in the shaping of metaphor."--Jacket |
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| Item Description: | EBSCO eBook History Collection EBSCO eBook Academic Comprehensive Collection North America |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xiv, 466 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 401-454) and index. |
| ISBN: | 0807864714 9780807864715 9798890869111 |
