William Bradford's Books

Of Plimmoth Plantation and the Printed Word
Erscheinungsjahr 2003
ISBN: 978-0-8018-7074-3
Verlag: Johns Hopkins University Press

Buch, Englisch, 296 Seiten, Format (B × H): 162 mm x 239 mm, Gewicht: 522 g

Widely regarded as the most important narrative of seventeenth-century New England, William Bradford's Of Plimmoth Plantation is one of the founding
documents of American literature and history. In William Bradford's Books this portrait of the religious dissenters who emigrated from the Netherlands to New England in 1620 receives perhaps its sharpest textual analysis to date—and the first since that of Samuel Eliot Morison two generations ago. Far from the gloomy elegy that many readers find, Bradford's history, argues Douglas Anderson, demonstrates remarkable ambition and subtle grace, as it contemplates the adaptive success of a small community of religious exiles. Anderson offers fresh literary and historical accounts of Bradford's accomplishment, exploring the context and the form in which the author intended his book to be read.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Anderson, Douglas

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur Amerikanische Literatur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface and Acknowledgements
Introduction: The Operations of Print
Chapter 1. Words and Wind
Chapter 2. Such Neighbors and Brethren As We Are
Chapter 3. Artificial Persons
Chapter 4. Here Is the Miserablest Time
Chapter 5. Controller of Stories
Conclusion: The High Preserver of Men
Notes
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Anderson, Douglas
Douglas Anderson is the Sterling-Goodman Professor of English at the University of Georgia and the author of several books, including The Radical Enlightenments of Benjamin Franklin, also published by Johns Hopkins.

Douglas Anderson is the Sterling Goodman Professor of English at the University of Georgia. He is the author of A House Undivided: Domesticity and Community in American Literature and The Radical Enlightenments of Benjamin Franklin, the latter available from Johns Hopkins.