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Risk culture [electronic resource] : performance & danger in early America / Joseph Fichtelberg.

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  • ISBN: 9780472026883 (electronic bk.)
  • ISBN: 0472026887 (electronic bk.)
  • ISBN: 9780472050949 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  • ISBN: 047205094X (pbk. : alk. paper)
  • ISBN: 9780472070947 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • ISBN: 0472070940 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • Physical Description: 1 online resource (x, 254 p.) : ill.
  • Publisher: Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, c2010.

Content descriptions

General Note:
Multi-User.
OldControl:muse9780472026883
Multi-User
Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:
Nightmares of history -- The colonial stage: promise and savagery in John Smith's Virginia -- Suspect grace. The trials of Puritan faith ; Echoes and infamies: the languages of Salem -- Alien terrors. Phillis Wheatley's feminine sublime ; The silence of John Marrant -- Infidelities. Disavowing Charlotte Temple ; Slander and honor in Trials of the human heart -- The devil designs a career.
Source of Description Note:
Description based on print version record.
Subject: American prose literature > Colonial period.
American prose literature > Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 > History and criticism.
Social change in literature.
Literature and society.
American prose literature.
Social change.
American prose literature > 1783-1850 > History and criticism.
Literature.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General.
Literature and society > United States > History.
United States.
Genre: History.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Electronic books.


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