Authorizing the Past: The Rhetoric of History in Seventeenth-Century New England
Language: English
Published by Northern Illinois Univ Pr, DeKallb, 1994
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- Title
- Authorizing the Past: The Rhetoric of History in Seventeenth-Century New England
- Author
- Arch, Stephen Carl
- Publisher
- Northern Illinois Univ Pr, DeKallb
- Publication year
- 1994
- Condition
- New
- Dust jacket
- New
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0875801889
- ISBN 13
- 9780875801889
- Edition
- 1st Edition
This first book-length analysis of seventeenth-century Puritan histories demonstrates the growing professionalism and sophistication of New England historiography as a genre in its own right. Arch focuses on rhetorical strategies, narrative techniques, and evidentiary conventions to show how the profession of history developed in the first seventy years of settlement in New England.
Arch concludes that narrative histories are fictional constructs designed to effect changes in their audiences and the societies in which they live. Authorizing the Past will engage anyone interested in the convergence between history and fiction, as well as students of colonial American literature, history, and culture.
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