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The people of colonial New England lived in a densely metaphoric landscape--a world where familiars invaded bodies without warning, witches passed with ease through locked doors, and houses blew down in gusts of angry, providential wind. Meaning, Robert St. George argues, was layered, often indirect, and inextricably intertwined with memory, apprehension, and imagination. By exploring the linkages between such cultural expressions as seventeenth-century farmsteads, witchcraft narratives, eighteenth-century crowd violence, and popular portraits of New England Federalists, St. George demonstrates that in early New England, things mattered as much as words in the shaping of metaphor. These forms of cultural representation--architecture and gravestones, metaphysical poetry and sermons, popular religion and labor politics--are connected through what St. George calls a 'poetics of implication.' Words, objects, and actions, referentially interdependent, demonstrate the continued resilience and power of seventeenth-century popular culture throughout the eighteenth century. Illuminating their interconnectedness, St. George calls into question the actual impact of the so-called Enlightenment, suggesting just how long a shadow the colonial climate of fear and inner instability cast over the warm glow of the early national period.

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Publisher
University of North Carolina Press
ISBN-10
0807846880
ISBN-13
9780807846889
eBay Product ID (ePID)
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Book Title
Conversing by Signs : Poetics of Implication in Colonial New England Culture
Author
Robert Blair St. George
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Features
New Edition
Topic
United States / State & Local / New England (Ct, mA, Me, NH, Ri, VT), United States / Colonial Period (1600-1775), General, Customs & Traditions
Publication Year
1998
Genre
Architecture, History, Social Science
Number of Pages
480 Pages

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9.2in
Item Height
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Item Width
6.1in
Item Weight
9 Oz

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Lc Classification Number
97-18537 [F]
Grade from
College Freshman
Edition Description
New Edition
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[A] tour de force examination of the multiple meanings embedded in corporeal things. The Journal of American History, St. George finesses the epistemic shift from faith to science into a richly suggestive account.American Literary History, [M]ajor_yea, an outstanding_contribution to material culture, New England, and early American studies, and should take its place proudly. Vernacular Architecture Newsletter, St. George finesses the epistemic shift from faith to science into a richly suggestive account. American Literary History, In its loving treatment of detail and its balanced and profound reflections, the book makes a wonderful read.Journal of American Folklore, Perhaps the book's greatest accomplishment is its willingness to question long-standing assumptions. American Historical Review, In its loving treatment of detail and its balanced and profound reflections, the book makes a wonderful read. Journal of American Folklore, [M]ajor—yea, an outstanding—contribution to material culture, New England, and early American studies, and should take its place proudly.Vernacular Architecture Newsletter, [M]ajor--yea, an outstanding--contribution to material culture, New England, and early American studies, and should take its place proudly. Vernacular Architecture Newsletter, [A] tour de force examination of the multiple meanings embedded in corporeal things.The Journal of American History, Perhaps the book's greatest accomplishment is its willingness to question long-standing assumptions.American Historical Review
Table of Content
ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction. On Implication 1. Implicated Places 2. Embodied Spaces 3. Attacking Houses 4. Disappearing Acts Afterword. Metaphysics and Markets Notes IndexIllustrations and Maps Plates 1 through 134. Maps 1 through 5.Tables 1. Trades Practiced by Transatlantic Migrants to Boston, 1660-1740 2. Trades Practiced by Intercolonial Artisan Migrants to Boston, 1660-1740 3. Trades Practiced by Artisan Migrants from Rural New England to Boston, 1660-1740 4. Distances Traveled by Artisan Migrants from Rural New England to Boston, 1660-1740 5. Trades Practiced by Artisan Migrants to Boston, 1660-1740 6. Occupational Participation in Petitions of 1677 and 1696 7. Occupational Participation in Subscription List for Market/Town House, 1656 8. Trades Practiced by Artisans Arriving in Boston, March 1763-August 1765 9. Reported Destruction of Houses and Barns during King Philip's War, 1675-1676 10. Officeholding of Deputies to Connecticut General Assembly, with Ranking for Population and Artisanal Activity, in Towns Where Ralph Earl Worked 11. Subscription Levels to 1792 Connecticut Artisans' Petition in Towns Where Ralph Earl Worked 12. Buildings Destroyed in Rhode Island during the British Occupation, 1776-1779
Copyright Date
1998
Lccn
97-018537
Dewey Decimal
974/.02
Intended Audience
Trade
Dewey Edition
21
Illustrated
Yes

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