Pillars of salt, monuments of grace : New England crime literature and the origins of American popular culture, 1674-1860 /

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In this innovative study, Daniel A.Cohen explores a major cultural shift embodied in hundreds of early New England crime publications.Tracing the declining authority of Puritan ministers, he shows how the arbiters of an increasingly pluralistic literary marketplace gradually supplanted pious executi...

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Gespeichert in:
1. Verfasser:
Cohen, Daniel A.
Format:
Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:
Englisch
Veröffentlicht:
Amherst, Massachusetts : University of Massachusetts Press, [2006]
Ausgabe:
Pbk. ed.
Zusammenfassung:
In this innovative study, Daniel A.Cohen explores a major cultural shift embodied in hundreds of early New England crime publications.Tracing the declining authority of Puritan ministers, he shows how the arbiters of an increasingly pluralistic literary marketplace gradually supplanted pious execution sermons with last-speech broadsides, gallows.
Umfang:
1 online resource (1 online resource xi, 350 pages) : illustrations)
Anmerkungen:
Originally published: New York : Oxford University Press, 1993, in series: Commonwealth Center studies in American culture.
Bibliografie:
Includes bibliographical references (pages [255]-337) and index.
ISBN:
9781613769843
1613769849
Schlagworte:
Popular literature > New England > History and criticism.
Popular culture > Moral and ethical aspects > United States.
Popular culture > Moral and ethical aspects > New England.
Crime > New England > History.
Authors, American > Homes and haunts > New England.
American literature > New England > History and criticism.
Crime in literature.
Authority in literature.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
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