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Pillars of salt, monuments of grace : New England crime literature and the origins of American popular culture, 1674-1860 / Daniel A. Cohen.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Cohen, Daniel A., author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Popular literature--New England--History and criticism.
- Popular literature.
- Popular culture--Moral and ethical aspects--United States.
- Popular culture.
- Popular culture--Moral and ethical aspects--New England.
- Crime--New England--History.
- Crime.
- Authors, American--Homes and haunts--New England.
- Authors, American.
- American literature--New England--History and criticism.
- American literature.
- Crime in literature.
- Authority in literature.
- New England--In literature.
- New England.
- New England--Intellectual life.
- Genre:
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- History.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (1 online resource xi, 350 pages) : illustrations)
- Edition:
- Pbk. ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Amherst, Massachusetts : University of Massachusetts Press, [2006]
- Summary:
- In this innovative study, Daniel A.Cohen explores a major cultural shift embodied in hundreds of early New England crime publications.Tracing the declining authority of Puritan ministers, he shows how the arbiters of an increasingly pluralistic literary marketplace gradually supplanted pious execution sermons with last-speech broadsides, gallows.
- Notes:
- Originally published: New York : Oxford University Press, 1993, in series: Commonwealth Center studies in American culture.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [255]-337) and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 9781613769843
- 1613769849
- OCLC:
- 1337854752
- Publisher Number:
- 2027/heb33608 hdl
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