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William Bradford's Books: Of Plimmoth Plantation and the Printed Word

William Bradford's Books: Of Plimmoth Plantation and the Printed Word

Hardcover

Literary CriticismColonial Period (1600-1775)

ISBN10: 0801870747
ISBN13: 9780801870743
Publisher: Johns Hopkins Univ Pr
Published: Jan 8 2003
Pages: 296
Weight: 1.15
Height: 1.03 Width: 6.38 Depth: 9.40
Language: English

Widely regarded as the most important narrative of seventeenth-century New England, William Bradford's Of Plimmoth Plantation is one of the founding
documents of American literature and history. In William Bradford's Books this portrait of the religious dissenters who emigrated from the Netherlands to New England in 1620 receives perhaps its sharpest textual analysis to date--and the first since that of Samuel Eliot Morison two generations ago. Far from the gloomy elegy that many readers find, Bradford's history, argues Douglas Anderson, demonstrates remarkable ambition and subtle grace, as it contemplates the adaptive success of a small community of religious exiles. Anderson offers fresh literary and historical accounts of Bradford's accomplishment, exploring the context and the form in which the author intended his book to be read.

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Colonial Period (1600-1775)