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Author Kamensky, Jane

Title Governing the Tongue : the Politics of Speech in Early New England
Published New York : Oxford University Press, 1999

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Description 1 online resource (304 pages)
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Contents Contents; Introduction; ONE: The Sweetest Meat, the Bitterest Poison; TWO: A Most Unquiet Hiding Place; THREE: The Misgovernment of Woman's Tongue; FOUR: "Publick Fathers" and Cursing Sons; FIVE: Saying and Unsaying; SIX: The Tongue Is a Witch; Epilogue; APPENDIX: Litigation over Speech in Massachusetts, 1630-1692; Notes; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y
Summary Explaining why the spoken word assumed such importance in the culture of early New England, the author re-examines such famous Puritan events as the Salem witch trials and the banishment of Anne Hutchinson to expose the ever-present fear of what the puritans called "sins of the tongue."
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. 203-280) and index
Notes English
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Subject English language -- Political aspects -- New England -- 18th century
Americanisms.
English language -- New England -- Religious aspects -- Christianity
English language -- Spoken English -- New England
English language -- Dialects -- New England
Puritans -- New England -- Language
Language and culture -- New England
Oral communication -- New England
English language -- New England
English language.
Americanisms
English language
English language -- Dialects
English language -- Political aspects
English language -- Religious aspects -- Christianity
English language -- Spoken English
Language and culture
Oral communication
Puritans -- Language
New England
Form Electronic book
LC no. 97010595
ISBN 9780198025153
0198025157
0585223483
9780585223483
0195090802
9780195090802
0195130901
9780195130904