Conversing by Signs

Auteur: St.George, Robert Blair
Editeur: The University of North Carolina Press
The author demonstrates how New England colonialists lived in a densely metaphoric landscape, exploring the links between such cultural expressions as witchcraft narratives and 18th-century crowd violence. He questions the actual impact of the Enlightenment on this climate of fear and instability.

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The author demonstrates how New England colonialists lived in a densely metaphoric landscape, exploring the links between such cultural expressions as witchcraft narratives and 18th-century crowd violence. He questions the actual impact of the Enlightenment on this climate of fear and instability.
ISBN / EAN 9780807846889
Auteur St.George, Robert Blair
Editeur The University of North Carolina Press