William Bradford's books : Of Plimmoth Plantation and the printed word
"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 it sharpest textual analysis to date - and for the first since that of Samuel Eliot Morison two generations ago. Far from being 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 a fresh literary and historical account of Bradford's accomplishment, exploring the context and the form in which the author intended his book to be read."--Jacket
Print Book, English, 2002
Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, 2002
Biographies
pages cm
9780801870743, 0801870747
223155395
Introduction: The Operations of Print
1. Words and Wind
2. Such Neighbors and Brethren As We Are
3. Artificial Persons
4. Here Is the Miserablest Time
5. Controller of Stories
Conclusion: The High Preserver of Men