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1 online resource (ix, 291 pages) : illustrations |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 203-280) and index. |
| Contents |
1 Sweetest Meat, the Bitterest Poison 17 -- 2 A Most Unquiet Hiding Place 43 -- 3 Misgovernment of Woman's Tongue 71 -- 4 "Publick Fathers" and Cursing Sons 99 -- 5 Saying and Unsaying 127 -- 6 Tongue Is a Witch 150 -- Appendix Litigation over Speech in Massachusetts, 1630-1692 195. |
| Summary |
Colonial New Englanders would have found our modern notions of free speech very strange indeed. Children today shrug off harsh words by chanting "sticks and stones may break my bones but names will never hurt me," but in the seventeenth century people felt differently. "A soft tongue breaketh the bone," they often said. Governing the Tongue explains why the spoken word assumed such importance in the culture of early New England. Author Jane Kamensky re-examines such famous Puritan events as the Salem witch trials and the banishment of Anne Hutchinson to expose the ever-present fear of what the puritans called "sins of the tongue." But even while dangerous or deviant speech was restricted, Kamensky points out, godly speech was continuously praised and promoted. Congregations were told that one should ones voice "like a trumpet" to God and "cry out and cease not." By placing speech at the heart of familiar stories of Puritan New England, Kamensky develops new ideas about the relationship between speech and power both in Puritan New England and, by extension, in our world today. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
English language -- Political aspects -- New England.
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English language -- Political aspects. |
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New England. |
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English language -- Religious aspects -- Christianity.
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English language -- Religious aspects -- Christianity. |
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English language -- Spoken English -- New England.
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English language -- Spoken English. |
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Language and culture -- New England -- History.
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Language and culture. |
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History. |
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Oral communication -- New England -- History.
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Oral communication. |
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English language -- 18th century -- History.
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English language. |
| Chronological Term |
18th century |
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Americanisms -- New England -- History.
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Americanisms. |
| Chronological Term |
1500-1799 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Kamensky, Jane. Governing the tongue. New York : Oxford University Press, 1997 0195130901 |
| ISBN |
0585223483 (electronic book) |
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9780585223483 (electronic book) |
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1280449845 |
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9781280449840 |
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9780195090802 (alkaline paper) |
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0195090802 (alkaline paper) |
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0195130901 |
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0195090802 (Paper) |
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9780195130904 |
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