Culture and Language at Crossed Purposes: The Unsettled Records of American Settlement by McGann, Jerome
Culture and Language at Crossed Purposes: The Unsettled Records of American Settlement by McGann, Jerome

Culture and Language at Crossed Purposes: The Unsettled Records of American Settlement

Culture and Language at Crossed Purposes unpacks the interpretive problems of colonial treaty-making and uses them to...
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Author: Jerome McGann
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Culture and Language at Crossed Purposes: The Unsettled Records of American Settlement by McGann, Jerome

Culture and Language at Crossed Purposes: The Unsettled Records of American Settlement

$595.09
Culture and Language at Crossed Purposes: The Unsettled Records of American Settlement by McGann, Jerome

Culture and Language at Crossed Purposes: The Unsettled Records of American Settlement

$595.09
Author: Jerome McGann
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Description
Culture and Language at Crossed Purposes unpacks the interpretive problems of colonial treaty-making and uses them to illuminate canonical works from the period.

Classic American literature, Jerome McGann argues, is haunted by the betrayal of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Indian treaties--"a stunned memory preserved in the negative spaces of the treaty records." A noted scholar of the "textual conditions" of literature, McGann investigates canonical works from the colonial period, including the Arbella sermon and key writings of William Bradford, John Winthrop, Anne Bradstreet, Cotton Mather's Magnalia, Benjamin Franklin's celebrated treaty folios and Autobiography, and Thomas Jefferson's Notes on the State of Virginia. These are highly practical, purpose-driven works--the record of Enlightenment dreams put to the severe test of dangerous conditions. McGann suggests that the treaty-makers never doubted the unsettled character of what they were prosecuting, and a similar conflicted ethos pervades these works. Like the treaty records, they deliberately test themselves against stringent measures of truth and accomplishment and show a distinctive consciousness of their limits and failures. McGann's book is ultimately a reminder of the public importance of truth and memory--the vocational commitments of humanist scholars and educators.

Author: Jerome McGann
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 07/29/2022
Pages: 272
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.93lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.64d
ISBN: 9780226818467

About the Author
McGann, Jerome: - Jerome McGann is Emeritus University Professor at the University of Virginia and visiting research professor at the University of California, Berkeley. He is a director of the online editorial project "Voice, Text Image. Jaime de Angulo's Old Time Stories."
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