Culture and language at crossed purposes : the unsettled records of American settlement / Jerome McGann.
"Classic American literature, Jerome McGann argues, is haunted by the betrayal of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Indian treaties--"a stunned memory preserved in the negative spaces of the treaty records." A noted scholar of the "textual conditions" of literature, McGann unpacks the interpretive...
Main Author: | McGann, Jerome J. (Author) |
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Language: | English |
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Chicago ; London :
The University of Chicago Press,
2022.
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Physical Description: | xv, 268 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm |
Format: | Book |