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Record Nr.

UNINA9911018865903321

Autore

Quimby George I (George Irving), <1913-2003, >

Titolo

Indian Culture and European Trade Goods : The Archaeology of the Historic Period in the Western Great Lakes Region / / Mitchell Robert Breitwieser

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Madison, Wis. : , : University of Wisconsin Press, , 1991

©1991

ISBN

0-299-04079-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource

Collana

Wisconsin project on American writers

Disciplina

974.4/302/092

Soggetti

Indian captivities

Biographies.

History

Biographies

collective biographies.

Massachusetts

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (pages 197-220) and index.

Sommario/riassunto

Mary White Rowlandwon, a New England Congregationalist minister's wife, was held captive by the Algonquin Indians during King Philip's War in 1676. Several years after she was ransomed and living among the British again she wrote a narrative of the captivity chronicling her experience in grief, love, resentment, and ethnic trauma. Breitwieser argues that this narrative undercuts the Puritan values Rowlandson attempted to uphold. He reveals where and how Rowlandson breaks with Puritan conventions. He points out that in American Puritan religious practice, real experiences were seen as siogns or emblems of moral abstractions. American Puritanism and the Defense of Mourning will be essential reading for all who study early American literature and culture.