Through a Glass Darkly
Subtitle: Reflections on Personal Identity in Early America
Contributors: Ronald Hoffman (Editor); Mechal Sobel (Editor); Fredrika J. Teute (Editor)
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Published: September 1997
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 464
ISBN-13: 9780807823361
Subjects: American history: c 1500 to c 1800; American history: c 1800 to c 1900; Anthropology; Cultural studies; United States; Identity (Psychology); Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775; United States - Colonial Period; Social History; U.S. History - Colonial Period (1607-1775); Literature - Classics / Criticism; History: American; USA; Congresses; Anthropology - Cultural; Sociology - General; 17th century; 18th century; Biography; Group identity; History
First sentence: "Tell me, sir," Herman Melville has his confidence man ask as he sets him up with feigned innocence.