Ways of Writing: The Practice and Politics of Text-Making in Seventeenth-Century New England

by David D. Hall

Book Overview

Writers abounded in seventeenth-century New England. From the moment of colonization and constantly thereafter, hundreds of people set pen to paper in the course of their lives, some to write letters that others recopied, some to compose sermons as part of their life work as ministers, dozens to attempt verse, and many more to narrate a remarkable experience, provide written testimony to a civil court, participate in a controversy, or keep some...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0812222083
• ISBN13: 9780812222081
• Release Date: March 2012
• Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 8.9"