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Risk culture : performance and danger in early America / Joseph Fichtelberg.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Fichtelberg, Joseph.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- American prose literature--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775--History and criticism.
- American prose literature.
- American prose literature--History and criticism.
- Social change in literature.
- Literature and society--United States--History.
- Literature and society.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (265 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, 2010.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Close textual analysis explores the culture of risk in our country's early days.
- Contents:
- Intro
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- 1. Nightmares of History
- 2. The Colonial Stage: Promise and Savagery in John Smith's Virginia
- 3. Suspect Grace
- The Trials of Puritan Faith
- Echoes and Infamies: The Languages of Salem
- 4. Alien Terrors
- Phillis Wheatley's Feminine Sublime
- The Silence of John Marrant
- 5. Infidelities
- Disavowing Charlotte Temple
- Slander and Honor in Trials of the Human Heart
- 6. The Devil Designs a Career
- Notes
- Index.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-282-64464-5
- 9786612644641
- 0-472-02688-7
- OCLC:
- 649914300
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