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UNINA9910493671103321 |
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Autore |
Hamilton Geoff <1972-> |
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A New Continent of Liberty : Eunomia in Native American Literature from Occom to Erdrich / / Geoff Hamilton |
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Charlottesville : , : University of Virginia Press, , 2019 |
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Baltimore, Md. : , : Project MUSE, , 2019 |
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©2019 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (220 pages) |
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Disciplina |
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Social structure in literature |
Natural law in literature |
Autonomy in literature |
American literature - Indian authors - History and criticism |
American literature - History and criticism |
Electronic books. |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Eunomia regained and lost: Thomas Jefferson and Samson Occom -- Prospective domination, retrospective liberation: Ralph Waldo Emerson and William Apess -- Lighting out, circling in: Mark Twain and Sarah Winnemucca -- The tent and the thipi I: Ernest Hemingway and Zitkala-Sa -- The tent and the thipi II: Joseph Heller and N. Scott Momaday -- Eunomia lost and regained: Don Delillo, Louise Erdrich, and Gerald Vizenor. |
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"Beginning with transcriptions of speeches by Pontiac, Red Jacket, and Tecumseh, and letters penned by the Reverend Samson Occom, and extending through a range of fiction and nonfiction works by Black Hawk, Mourning Dove, N. Scott Momaday, Louise Erdrich, and others, A New Continent of Liberty looks closely at how these authors have sought to reclaim and redefine versions of autonomy against representative Euro-American authors spanning from Thomas Jefferson to Don DeLillo. In his previous book, Hamilton charted how a vital blending of natural and human law in which the self was subordinated |
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to both the divine and a larger human community gradually declined (from the late nineteenth century onward) into an eventual hyperautonomy in which an effectively deified self stood in sterile isolation from the rest of the world. In this new book, he demonstrates how Native American literature recovers a version of what Euro-American literature gradually lost"-- |
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UNISA996385517303316 |
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Autore |
Griffith Richard <1635?-1691.> |
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Some observations made upon the Brasillian root, called ipepocoanha, imported from the Indies [[electronic resource] ] : shewing its wonderful virtue against vomiting and looseness / / written by a physitian in the countrey to the president of the Colledge of Physitians in London |
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Cephaelis ipecacuanha |
Ipecac (Drug) |
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Wrongly attributed to John Pechey by Surgeon general's catalogue (ser. 1); to John Pechey by Mansell; and to Dr. Griffith by Halkett and Laing. |
Reproduction of original in Huntington Library. |
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