Sarah Rivett (Princeton University Associate Professor of English)

Unscripted America

Indigenous Languages and the Origins of a Literary Nation

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Produktbeschreibung

Unscripted America reconstructs an archive of indigenous language texts in order to present a new and wholly unique account of their impact on philosophy and US literary culture.

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Produktdetails

• Oxford Studies in American Literary History
• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 398
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. November 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 155mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 730g
• ISBN-13: 9780190492564
• ISBN-10: 0190492562
• Artikelnr.: 48209603

Autorenporträt

Sarah Rivett is Associate Professor of English at Princeton University and the author of The Science of the Soul in Colonial New England (UNC Press, 2011), which won the Brewer Prize of the American Society of Church History.

Inhaltsangabe

* Introduction
* 1. The 'Savage Sounds' of Christian Translation: How Missionaries
Confronted the Limits of Universalism in Early America
* 2. Learning to Write Algonquian Letters: The Indigenous Place of
Language Philosophy in the Seventeenth-Century Atlantic World
* 3. Local Linguistics and Indigenous Cosmologies of the Early
Eighteenth Century Atlantic World
* 4. Imperial Millennialism and the Battle for American Indian Souls
* 5. The Nature of Indian Words in the Rise of Anglo-American Nativism
* 6. Franco-Catholic Communication and Indian Alliance in the Seven
Years War
* 7. Unruly Empiricisms and Linguistic Sovereignty in Thomas
Jefferson's Indian Vocabulary Project
* 8. Indigenous Metaphors and the Philosophy of History in Cooper's
Leatherstocking Tales
* Coda: Remembered Forms of a Literary Nation
* Notes
* Bibliography
* Index