Authorizing experience :refigurations of the body politic in seventeenth-century New England writing
- 作者: Egan, Jim,
- 出版: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press ©1999.
- 稽核項: 1 online resource (x, 182 pages).
- 標題: New England. , Rhetoric Political aspects. , American literature. , American literature , Rhetoric Political aspects -- New England -- History -- 17th century. , Rhetoric , Littérature et société , Politics and literature. , 1600-1775 , Koloniën. , Literature and society , Nouvelle-Angleterre Vie intellectuelle -- 17e siècle. , Vie intellectuelle , New England , Discours politique , Littérature et société Nouvelle-Angleterre -- Histoire -- 17e siècle. , Authority in literature. , Criticism, interpretation, etc. , Politiek. , American literature Colonial period. , Littérature américaine , Political aspectsHistory , Discours politique Nouvelle-Angleterre -- Histoire -- 17e siècle. , Literature and society New England -- History -- 17th century. , History and criticism. , Politics and literature , Gezag. , LITERARY CRITICISM American -- General. , Colonies dans la littérature. , LITERARY CRITICISM , Intellectual life. , Histoire et critique. , Electronic books. , Amerikaans. , Colonial period. , History , Political aspects. , American literature New England -- History and criticism. , Littérature américaine ca 1600-1775 (Période coloniale) -- Histoire et critique. , Nouvelle-Angleterre , AmericanGeneral. , Intellectual life , New England (Verenigde Staten) , Histoire , Politique et littérature , Politique et littérature Nouvelle-Angleterre -- Histoire -- 17e siècle. , Bellettrie. , Politics and literature New England -- History -- 17th century. , Colonies in literature. , Literature and society. , Autorité dans la littérature. , American literature Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 -- History and criticism. , New England Intellectual life -- 17th century. , Littérature américaine Nouvelle-Angleterre -- Histoire et critique.
- ISBN: 0691059497 , 9780691059495
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- 附註: Includes bibliographical references (pages 161-178) and index.
- 摘要: "The emphasis on practical experience over ideology is viewed by many historians as a profoundly American characteristic, one that provides a model for exploring the colonial challenge to European belief systems and the creation of a unique culture. Here Jim Egan offers an unprecedented look at how early modern American writers helped make this notion of experience so powerful that we now take it as a given rather than as the product of hard-fought rhetorical battles waged over ways of imagining one's relationship to a larger social community. In order to show how our modern notion of experience emerges from a historical change that experience itself could not have brought about, he turns to works by seventeenth-century writers in New England and reveals the ways in which they authorized experience, ultimately producing a rhetoric distinctive to the colonies."--Jacket.
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The emphasis on practical experience over ideology is viewed by many historians as a profoundly American characteristic, one that provides a model for exploring the colonial challenge to European belief systems and the creation of a unique culture. Here Jim Egan offers an unprecedented look at how early modern American writers helped make this notion of experience so powerful that we now take it as a given rather than as the product of hard-fought rhetorical battles waged over ways of imagining one's relationship to a larger social community. In order to show how our modern notion of experience emerges from a historical change that experience itself could not have brought about, he turns to works by seventeenth-century writers in New England and reveals the ways in which they authorized experience, ultimately producing a rhetoric distinctive to the colonies and supportive of colonialism. Writers such as John Smith, William Wood, John Winthrop, Anne Bradstreet, Benjamin Tompson, and William Hubbard were sensitive to the challenge experiential authority posed to established social hierarchies. Egan argues that they used experience to authorize a supplementary status system that would at once enhance England's economic, political, and spiritual status and provide a new basis for regulating English and native populations. These writers were assuaging fears over how exposure to alien environments threatened actual English bodies and also the imaginary body that authorized English monarchy and allowed English subjects to think of themselves as a nation. By reimagining the English nation, these supporters of English colonialism helped create a modern way of imagining national identity and individual subject formation.
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