Culture and Language at Crossed Purposes

List of Figures
Preface
Introduction
1: Scope and Method
2: The Exceptional Encounter
3: On Native Grounds: North American Treaty-Making (ca. 1609-1721)

Part I: Puritan Enlightenment: Via Dolorosa
Prologue
4: William Bradford: The Diary (1620-21), the History (Of Plymouth Plantation), and the Hebrew Studies
5: John Winthrop: From Journal to History
6: Anne Bradstreet: The World Elsewhere
7: Cotton Mather's Magnalia
Interchapter 1. Covenant Chain Treaty-Making and Franklin's Folios

Part II. Secular Enlightenment: The Importance of Failure
8: Franklin's Autobiography: Composition as Explanation
9: The Education of Thomas Jefferson
Interchapter 2. The End of Kaswentha: A Brief History

Part III. Truth and Method
10: The Arbella Sermon: A Case Study
11: The American Scholar in the Twenty-first Century
Acknowledgments
Notes
Index

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• Educação

Colonial American Literature;ethno-philology;Indian treaties;American Exceptionalism;practical letters;historicism;reading cultural contradictions;polite letters