03712nam 2200949uu 450 991081555010332120200520144314.00-19-771355-61-282-38415-597866123841581-60256-385-30-19-513090-10-19-535136-31-280-44984-597866104498420-19-802515-72027/heb00659(CKB)1000000000397032(EBL)271564(OCoLC)476007628(SSID)ssj0000084238(PQKBManifestationID)11120337(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000084238(PQKBWorkID)10164295(PQKB)11495281(Au-PeEL)EBL4701232(CaPaEBR)ebr11273103(dli)HEB00659(MiU)MIU01000000000000003898722(MiAaPQ)EBC4701232(OCoLC)1406787475(StDuBDS)9780197713556(EXLCZ)99100000000039703219990517e20231997 |y |engur|n|---|||||txtccrGoverning the tongue the politics of speech in early New England /Jane Kamensky[electronic resource]New York ;Oxford University Press,2023.1 online resource (304 p.)Oxford scholarship onlineIncludes index.Previously issued in print: 1998.0-585-22348-3 0-19-509080-2 Includes bibliographical references (p. 203-280) and index.Contents; Introduction; ONE: The Sweetest Meat, the Bitterest Poison; TWO: A Most Unquiet Hiding Place; THREE: The Misgovernment of Woman's Tongue; FOUR: ""Publick Fathers"" and Cursing Sons; FIVE: Saying and Unsaying; SIX: The Tongue Is a Witch; Epilogue; APPENDIX: Litigation over Speech in Massachusetts, 1630-1692; Notes; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; YThis study explores why the spoken word assumed such importance in the culture of early New England. To aid her study, the author re-examines such famous Puritan events as the Salem witch trials and the banishment of Anne Hutchinson.Oxford scholarship online.English languagePolitical aspectsNew EnglandEnglish languageEarly modern, 1500-1700HistoryEnglish languageReligious aspectsChristianityEnglish languageSpoken EnglishNew EnglandLanguage and cultureNew EnglandHistoryOral communicationNew EnglandHistoryEnglish language18th centuryHistoryAmericanismsNew EnglandHistoryPuritansNew EnglandLanguageWomenNew EnglandLanguageNew EnglandHistoryColonial period, ca. 1600-1775English languagePolitical aspectsEnglish languageHistory.English languageReligious aspectsChristianity.English languageSpoken EnglishLanguage and cultureHistory.Oral communicationHistory.English languageHistory.AmericanismsHistory.PuritansLanguage.WomenLanguage.420/.974Kamensky Jane938124StEdNLUkStDuBDSZStDuBDSZBOOK9910815550103321Governing the tongue2113401UNINA