Through a Glass Darkly Reflections on Personal Identity in Early America

Name: Through a Glass Darkly Reflections on Personal Identity in Early America
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ISBN: 9780807846445

ISBN-10: 0807846449

ISBN-13: 9780807846445

Edition: 1997

Authors: Fredrika J. Teute, Mechal Sobel, Fredrika J. Teute

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These thirteen original essays are provocative explorations in the construction and representation of self in America's colonial and early republican eras. Highlighting the increasing importance of interdisciplinary research for the field of early American history, these leading scholars in the field extend their reach to literary criticism, anthropology, psychology, and material culture. The collection is organized into three partsHistories of Self, Texts of Self, and Reflections on Defining Self. Individual essays examine the significance of dreams, diaries, and carved chests, murder and suicide, Indian kinship, and the experiences of African American sailors. Gathered in celebration of…

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List price: $45.00
Copyright year: 1997
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Publication date: 9/30/1997
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 480
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.75" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 1.584
Language: English



Preface


Introduction: In Search of a Metaphor




Histories of Self Histories of Self



"The Cast of His Countenance": Reading Andrew Montour



Communal Definitions of Gendered Identity in Seventeenth-Century English America



Making History: The Force of Public Opinion and the Last Years of Slavery in Revolutionary Massachusetts



"The Unhappy Stephen Arnold": An Episode of Murder and Penitence in the Early Republic



The Suicide of a Notary: Language, Personal Identity, and Conquest in Colonial New York




Texts of Self Texts of Self



The Revolution in Selves: Black and White Inner Aliens



Stories and Constructions of Identity: Folk Tellings and Diary Inscriptions in Revolutionary Virginia



Hannah Barnard's Cupboard: Female Property and Identity in Eighteenth-Century New England



Colonial Self-Fashioning: Paradoxes and Pathologies in the Construction of Genteel Identity in Eighteenth-Century America




Reflections on Defining Self Reflections on Defining Self



The Self Shaped and Misshaped:The Protestant TemperamentReconsidered



"I Have Suffer'd Much Today": The Defining Force of Pain in Early America



"Although I am dead, I am not entirely dead. I have left a second of myself": Constructing Self and Persons on the Middle Ground of Early America



An Inner Diaspora: Black Sailors Making Selves



Index


Notes on the Contributors