Authorizing Experience : : Refigurations of the Body Politic in Seventeenth-Century New England Writing / / Jim Egan.
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 e...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Archive 1927-1999 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [1999] ©1999 |
| Year of Publication: | 1999 |
| Edition: | Core Textbook |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (184 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- Introduction: INVERTING AMERICAN EXPERIENCE
- Chapter One: HOW THE ENGLISH BODY BECOMES THAT OF THE ENGLISH NATION
- Chapter Two: THE MAN OF EXPERIENCE
- Chapter Three: A BODY THAT WORKS
- Chapter Four: DISCIPLINE AND DISINFECT
- Chapter Five: THE INSIGNIFICANCE OF EXPERIENCE
- Chapter Six: A NATIONAL EXPERIENCE
- NOTES
- BIBLIOGRAPHY
- INDEX