The pilgrim and the bee : reading rituals and book culture in early New England / Matthew P. Brown.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Brown, Matthew Pentland.

Contributor:

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Fund.

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Library (University of Pennsylvania)

Series:

Material texts

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Books and reading--New England--History--17th century.

Books and reading.

Books and reading--New England--History--18th century.

Literature and society--New England--History--17th century.

Literature and society.

Literature and society--New England--History--18th century.

Puritans--Massachusetts--History--17th century.

Puritans.

History.

Massachusetts.

United States--Civilization--To 1783.

United States.

Civilization.

New England.

Physical Description:

xiv, 265 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2007]

Summary:

""The Pilgrim and the Bee" makes a broad claim about a reading-centered history, reclaiming for this purpose a distinctive body of texts. Brown's analysis marks an important step toward a better history of reading."--David D. Hall, Harvard University

Contents:

Preface: A Phenomenology of the Book ix

Introduction: Toward a Reader-Based Literary History 1

1 The Presence of the Text 21

2 Devotional Steady Sellers and the Conduct of Reading 68

3 Ritual Fasting 107

4 Ritual Mourning 139

5 Race, Literacy, and the Eliot Mission 179.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [239]-254) and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Horace Howard Furness Memorial Fund.

ISBN:

9780812240153

0812240154

OCLC:

148739320