Risk culture : performance and danger in early America / / Joseph Fichtelberg
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| Autore: |
Fichtelberg Joseph
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| Titolo: |
Risk culture : performance and danger in early America / / Joseph Fichtelberg
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| Pubblicazione: | Ann Arbor, : University of Michigan Press, 2010 |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (265 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 810.9/355 |
| Soggetto topico: | American prose literature - Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 - History and criticism |
| American prose literature - History and criticism | |
| Social change in literature | |
| Literature and society - United States - History | |
| Note generali: | Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | 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. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | Close textual analysis explores the culture of risk in our country's early days. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Risk culture |
| ISBN: | 1-282-64464-5 |
| 9786612644641 | |
| 0-472-02688-7 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9911097092803321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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