02464nam 2200601Ia 450 991081146900332120200520144314.01-282-64464-597866126446410-472-02688-7(CKB)2670000000040646(OCoLC)649914300(CaPaEBR)ebrary10395637(SSID)ssj0000427324(PQKBManifestationID)11279057(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000427324(PQKBWorkID)10404941(PQKB)10803579(MiAaPQ)EBC3414897(EXLCZ)99267000000004064620091116d2010 uy 0engurcnu||||||||txtccrRisk culture performance and danger in early America /Joseph Fichtelberg1st ed.Ann Arbor University of Michigan Press20101 online resource (265 p.) Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph0-472-03496-0 0-472-05094-X Includes bibliographical references and index.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.Close textual analysis explores the culture of risk in our country's early days.American prose literatureColonial period, ca. 1600-1775History and criticismAmerican prose literatureHistory and criticismSocial change in literatureLiterature and societyUnited StatesHistoryAmerican prose literatureHistory and criticism.American prose literatureHistory and criticism.Social change in literature.Literature and societyHistory.810.9/355Fichtelberg Joseph1168746MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910811469003321Risk culture4199121UNINA