UID:
almafu_9959870267702883
Format:
1 online resource (xi, 384 pages) :
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illustrations (black and white).
ISBN:
0-19-049258-9
,
0-19-049259-7
Series Statement:
Oxford studies in American literary history
Content:
'Unscripted America' reconstructs an archive of indigenous language texts in order to present a new and wholly unique account of their impact on philosophy and US literary culture.
Note:
Previously issued in print: 2017.
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The "savage sounds" of Christian translation: missionaries confront the limits of universalism in early America -- Learning to write Algonquian letters: the indigenous place of language philosophy in the seventeenth-century Atlantic world -- Indigenous cosmologies of the early eighteenth-century Atlantic world -- Imperial millennialism and the battle for American Indian souls -- The nature of Indian words in the rise of Anglo-American nativism -- Franco-Catholic communication and Indian alliance in the Seven Years War -- Unruly empiricisms and linguistic sovereignty in Thomas Jefferson's Indian vocabulary project -- Indigenous metaphors and the philosophy of history in Cooper's Leatherstocking Tales -- Coda: remembered forms of a literary nation.
Additional Edition:
Print version : ISBN 9780190492564
Language:
English
