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Conversing by Signs: Poetics of Implication in Colonial New England Culture
Robert Blair St. George
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Paperback. 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. Num Pages: 480 pages, 134 illustrations, 5 maps, notes, index. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; HBLL; JFC; JFHF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 162 x 232 x 34. Weight in Grams: 766. Clean copy with some shelf wear
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. These forms of cultural representation--architecture ... Read more
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. These forms of cultural representation--architecture ... Read more
Product Details
Condition
Used, Good
Publisher
The University of North Carolina Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Number of Pages
480
Place of Publication
Chapel Hill, United States
ISBN
9780807846889
SKU
KOC0018537
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About Robert Blair St. George
Robert Blair St. George is associate professor of folklore and folklife at the University of Pennsylvania.
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