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Autore: | Baker Jennifer J. <1968-> |
Titolo: | Securing the commonwealth : debt, speculation, and writing in the making of early America / / Jennifer J. Baker |
Pubblicazione: | Baltimore, : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2005 |
Edizione: | 1st ed. |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (231 p.) |
Disciplina: | 810.9/3553 |
Soggetto topico: | American literature - Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 - History and criticism |
Politics and literature - United States - History - 18th century | |
Imperialism in literature | |
Economics in literature | |
Colonies in literature | |
Soggetto geografico: | United States Intellectual life 18th century |
United States Intellectual life 17th century | |
Note generali: | Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [169]-207) and index. |
Nota di contenuto: | Crisis and faith in the Puritan Society -- Making much of nothing in the Chesapeake -- Benjamin Franklin's projections -- Performing redemption on the national stage -- Arthur Mervyn and the reader's investments -- The medium between calculation and feeling. |
Sommario/riassunto: | Insecure times strengthened their conviction that writing could be publicly serviceable, persuading readers to invest in their government, in their fellow Americans, and in the idea of America itself. |
Titolo autorizzato: | Securing the commonwealth |
ISBN: | 0-8018-9715-7 |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910823422703321 |
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