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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 indirect, and inextricably intertwined with memory, apprehension, and imagination. By exploring the linkages between such cultural expressions as seventeenth-century farmsteads, witchcraft narratives, eighteenth-century crowd violence, and popular portraits of New England Federalists, St. George demonstrates that in early New England, things mattered as much as words in the shaping of metaphor. These forms of cultural representation--architecture and gravestones, metaphysical poetry and sermons, popular religion and labor politics--are connected through what St. George calls a 'poetics of implication.' Words, objects, and actions, referentially interdependent, demonstrate the continued resilience and power of seventeenth-century popular culture throughout the eighteenth century. Illuminating their interconnectedness, St. George calls into question the actual impact of the so-called Enlightenment, suggesting just how long a shadow the colonial climate of fear and inner instability cast over the warm glow of the early national period.



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"St. George finesses the epistemic shift from faith to science into a richly suggestive account of the continuities and paradoxes in New England colonial social relations."--"American Literary History" ""Conversing by Signs" is a model example of archaeological history. In its loving treatment of detail and its balanced and profound reflections, the book makes a wonderful read."--"Journal of American Folklore" "A major -- yea, an outstanding -- contribution to material culture, New England, and early American studies, and should take its place proudly . . . on the shelves of those concerned with this array of topics."--"Vernacular Architecture Newsletter" "Written in St. George's inimitable voice, "Conversing by Signs" is a "tour de force" examination of the multiple meanings embedded in corporeal things, as well as the means, or conversation, by which they are expressed. . . . A landmark work that should, like the implicated ideas that St. George cites, continue to exert influence, overt and tacit, for generations to come."--"The Journal of American History" "Enriched by wide reading in theory as well as in architectural and cultural history, and informed by plain old digging for relevant texts, St. George imagines a lost world unlike any we have envisioned before. Is it quirky? In places, yes. Is it stimulating and engaging? Definitely."--"William and Mary Quarterly"


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  • ISBN-13: 9780807864715
  • Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
  • Publisher Imprint: The University of North Carolina Press
  • Language: English
  • Sub Title: Poetics of Implication in Colonial New England Culture
  • ISBN-10: 0807864714
  • Publisher Date: 09 Nov 2000
  • Binding: Digital (delivered electronically)
  • No of Pages: 480


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