The Interpretation of Material Shapes in Puritanism
Subtitle: A Study of Rhetoric, Prejudice, and Violence (Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: February 12, 2009
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 216
ISBN-13: 9780521107884
Subjects: Literature & Fiction -- History & Criticism -- Criticism & Theory; Literature & Fiction -- World Literature -- United States -- Classics; Literature & Fiction -- World Literature -- United States -- History & Criticism; Reference -- Writing
First sentence: In 1637, the year in which the Puritans banished Anne Hutchinson for her "mishapen opinions" on religion, the Puritans also initiated a genocidal war against the Pequots, tribe of Native Americans who inhabited parts of southern and central New England.