Risk culture
Subtitle: performance and danger in early America
By: Joseph Fichtelberg.
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Ann Arbor
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780472070947; 9780472050949
Subjects: American prose literature -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 -- History and criticism; American prose literature -- 1783-1850 -- History and criticism; Social change in literature; Literature and society -- United States -- History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Nightmares of history; title: The colonial stage: promise and savagery in John Smith's Virginia; title: Suspect grace; title: The trials of Puritan faith; title: Echoes and infamies: the languages of Salem; title: Alien terrors; title: Phillis Wheatley's feminine sublime; title: The silence of John Marrant; title: Infidelities; title: Disavowing Charlotte Temple; title: Slander and honor in trials of the human heart; title: The devil designs a career.