Unscripted America : indigenous languages and the origins of a literary nation / Sarah Rivett.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rivett, Sarah, author.

Series:

Oxford studies in American literary history

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Native language--History.

Native language.

Languages in contact--North America--History.

Languages in contact.

Indians of North America--Languages--History--17th century.

Indians of North America.

Indians of North America--Languages--History--18th century.

Indians of North America--Languages--Influence on English.

Language and education--North America--History.

Language and education.

Language and culture--North America--History.

Language and culture.

Indians of North America--Languages.

History.

North America.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

xi, 384 pages ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2017]

Contents:

1 The "Savage Sounds" of Christian Translation: Missionaries Confront the Limits of Universalism in Early America p. 22

2 Learning to Write Algonquian Letters: The Indigenous Place of Language Philosophy in the Seventeenth-Century Atlantic World p. 55

3 Indigenous Cosmologies of the Early Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World p. 89

4 Imperial Millennialism and the Battle for American Indian Souls p. 115

5 The Nature of Indian Words in the Rise of Anglo-American Nativism p. 151

6 Franco-Catholic Communication and Indian Alliance in the Seven Years War p. 185

7 Unruly Empiricisms and Linguistic Sovereignty in Thomas Jefferson's Indian Vocabulary Project p. 209

8 Indigenous Metaphors and the Philosophy of History in Cooper's Leatherstocking Tales p. 238.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780190492564

0190492562

OCLC:

984898475