Pillars of Salt, Monuments of Grace: New England Crime Literature & the Origins of American Popular Culture, 1674-1860

Daniel A. Cohen

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ISBN 10: 1558495290 ISBN 13: 9781558495296

Published by University of Massachusetts Press, 2006

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Pillars of Salt, Monuments of Grace: New England Crime Literature & the Origins of American Popular Culture, 1674-1860

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University of Massachusetts Press

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2006

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English

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1558495290

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9781558495296

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Paperback

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In this innovative study, Daniel A. Cohen explores a major cultural shift embodied in hundreds of early New England crime publications. Tracing the declining authority of Puritan ministers, he shows how the arbiters of an increasingly pluralistic literary marketplace gradually supplanted pious execution sermons with last-speech broadsides, gallows verses, criminal autobiographies, trial reports, newspaper stories, and romantic docudramas. Pillars of Salt, Monuments of Grace probes the forgotten origins of our modern mass media's preoccupation with crime and punishment.

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DANIEL A. COHEN is associate professor of history at Case Western Reserve University.

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