Cover Image

Conversing by signs poetics of implication in colonial New England culture /

"The people of colonial New England lived in a densely metaphoric landscape - a world where familiars invaded bodies without warning, witches passed with ease through locked doors, and houses blew down in gusts of angry providential wind. Meaning, Robert St. George argues, was layered, often in...

Full description

Main Author: St. George, Robert Blair.
Format: Book
Language: English
Published: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, ©1998.
Chapel Hill : [1998]
Physical Description: xiv, 466 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Subjects:
Material culture -- New England -- History -- 18th century.
Material culture -- New England -- History -- 17th century.
Landscapes -- Social aspects -- New England -- History -- 18th century.
Landscapes -- Social aspects -- New England -- History -- 17th century.
Architecture and society -- New England -- History -- 18th century.
Architecture and society -- New England -- History -- 17th century.
Poetics -- History -- 17th century.
Poetics -- History -- 18th century.
New England -- Civilization -- 18th century.
New England -- Civilization -- 17th century.

CMU Main Books 3rd Floor

LocationCall Number: Status
CMU Main Books 3rd Floor F7 .S8 1998 Available
Request Chapter Scan

In Prospector

Similar Items