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Conversing by Signs: Poetics of Implication in Colonial New England Culture

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 | #2032506 in Books |  The University of North Carolina Press |  1998-05-26 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  9.00 x1.20 x6.00l,1.57 | File type: PDF | 480 pages

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||0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| Classic!|By Grad Student Mommy|Great book on the material culture and cosmology of colonial New England. Used it many times in my thesis research.| |[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"

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, witch...

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