LEADER 04883nam 2200805 a 450 001 9910455485303321 005 20211001023711.0 010 $a1-282-75368-1 010 $a9786612753688 010 $a1-4008-2302-1 010 $a1-4008-1144-9 024 7 $a10.1515/9781400823024 035 $a(CKB)111056486505732 035 $a(EBL)581581 035 $a(OCoLC)700688513 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000107786 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11142947 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000107786 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10017752 035 $a(PQKB)11463833 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC581581 035 $a(OCoLC)51575464 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse36131 035 $a(DE-B1597)446220 035 $a(OCoLC)979749204 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781400823024 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL581581 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10035805 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL275368 035 $a(EXLCZ)99111056486505732 100 $a19980727d1999 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurnn#---|u||u 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aAuthorizing experience$b[electronic resource] $erefigurations of the body politic in seventeenth-century New England writing /$fJim Egan 205 $aCore Textbook 210 $aPrinceton, N.J. $cPrinceton University Press$dc1999 215 $a1 online resource (193 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 0 $a0-691-05949-7 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [161]-178) and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tCONTENTS --$tACKNOWLEDGMENTS --$tIntroduction: INVERTING AMERICAN EXPERIENCE --$tChapter One: HOW THE ENGLISH BODY BECOMES THAT OF THE ENGLISH NATION --$tChapter Two: THE MAN OF EXPERIENCE --$tChapter Three: A BODY THAT WORKS --$tChapter Four: DISCIPLINE AND DISINFECT --$tChapter Five: THE INSIGNIFICANCE OF EXPERIENCE --$tChapter Six: A NATIONAL EXPERIENCE --$tNOTES --$tBIBLIOGRAPHY --$tINDEX 330 $aThe emphasis on practical experience over ideology is viewed by many historians as a profoundly American characteristic, one that provides a model for exploring the colonial challenge to European belief systems and the creation of a unique culture. Here Jim Egan offers an unprecedented look at how early modern American writers helped make this notion of experience so powerful that we now take it as a given rather than as the product of hard-fought rhetorical battles waged over ways of imagining one's relationship to a larger social community. In order to show how our modern notion of experience emerges from a historical change that experience itself could not have brought about, he turns to works by seventeenth-century writers in New England and reveals the ways in which they authorized experience, ultimately producing a rhetoric distinctive to the colonies and supportive of colonialism. Writers such as John Smith, William Wood, John Winthrop, Anne Bradstreet, Benjamin Tompson, and William Hubbard were sensitive to the challenge experiential authority posed to established social hierarchies. Egan argues that they used experience to authorize a supplementary status system that would at once enhance England's economic, political, and spiritual status and provide a new basis for regulating English and native populations. These writers were assuaging fears over how exposure to alien environments threatened actual English bodies and also the imaginary body that authorized English monarchy and allowed English subjects to think of themselves as a nation. By reimagining the English nation, these supporters of English colonialism helped create a modern way of imagining national identity and individual subject formation. 606 $aAmerican literature$yColonial period, ca. 1600-1775$xHistory and criticism 606 $aRhetoric$xPolitical aspects$zNew England$xHistory$y17th century 606 $aPolitics and literature$zNew England$xHistory$y17th century 606 $aLiterature and society$zNew England$xHistory$y17th century 606 $aAmerican literature$zNew England$xHistory and criticism 606 $aAuthority in literature 606 $aColonies in literature 607 $aNew England$xIntellectual life$y17th century 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aAmerican literature$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aRhetoric$xPolitical aspects$xHistory 615 0$aPolitics and literature$xHistory 615 0$aLiterature and society$xHistory 615 0$aAmerican literature$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aAuthority in literature. 615 0$aColonies in literature. 676 $a810.9/358 700 $aEgan$b Jim$f1961-$01047674 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910455485303321 996 $aAuthorizing experience$92475399 997 $aUNINA