UID:
edocfu_9959228331802883
Format:
1 online resource (304 p.)
ISBN:
0-19-771355-6
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1-282-38415-5
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9786612384158
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1-60256-385-3
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0-19-513090-1
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0-19-535136-3
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1-280-44984-5
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9786610449842
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0-19-802515-7
Series Statement:
Oxford scholarship online
Content:
This study explores why the spoken word assumed such importance in the culture of early New England. To aid her study, the author re-examines such famous Puritan events as the Salem witch trials and the banishment of Anne Hutchinson.
Note:
Includes index.
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Previously issued in print: 1998.
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Contents; Introduction; ONE: The Sweetest Meat, the Bitterest Poison; TWO: A Most Unquiet Hiding Place; THREE: The Misgovernment of Woman's Tongue; FOUR: ""Publick Fathers"" and Cursing Sons; FIVE: Saying and Unsaying; SIX: The Tongue Is a Witch; Epilogue; APPENDIX: Litigation over Speech in Massachusetts, 1630-1692; Notes; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-585-22348-3
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-19-509080-2
Language:
English
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