{"product_id":"culture-and-language-at-crossed-jerome-mcgann-9780226818450","title":"Culture and Language at Crossed Purposes: The Unsettled Records of American Settlement","description":"\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eCulture and Language at Crossed Purposes\u003c\/i\u003e unpacks the interpretive problems of colonial treaty-making and uses them to illuminate canonical works from the period.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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 investigates canonical works from the colonial period, including the \u003ci\u003eArbella \u003c\/i\u003esermon and key writings of William Bradford, John Winthrop, Anne Bradstreet, Cotton Mather's \u003ci\u003eMagnalia\u003c\/i\u003e, Benjamin Franklin's celebrated treaty folios and \u003ci\u003eAutobiography\u003c\/i\u003e, and Thomas Jefferson's \u003ci\u003eNotes on the State of Virginia\u003c\/i\u003e. These are highly practical, purpose-driven works--the record of Enlightenment dreams put to the severe test of dangerous conditions. McGann suggests that the treaty-makers never doubted the unsettled character of what they were prosecuting, and a similar conflicted ethos pervades these works. Like the treaty records, they deliberately test themselves against stringent measures of truth and accomplishment and show a distinctive consciousness of their limits and failures. McGann's book is ultimately a reminder of the public importance of truth and memory--the vocational commitments of humanist scholars and educators.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Jerome McGann\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0226818454\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780226818450\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Chicago Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/16\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 272\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 07\/01\/2023","brand":"Jerome McGann","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":46384239673599,"sku":"9780226818450","price":95.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_96754103-facf-44cb-a077-798220a30f5f.jpg?v=1733283162","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/culture-and-language-at-crossed-jerome-mcgann-9780226818450","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}