Culture and Language at Crossed Purposes by Jerome McGann PAPERBACK

Name: Culture and Language at Crossed Purposes by Jerome McGann PAPERBACK
Brand: The University of Chicago Press

The University of Chicago Press

Culture and Language at Crossed Purposes\nby Jerome McGann\nPaperback\nEnglish\n\nDelivery\nUsually delivered in 2\u20133 working days (dispatched today if ordered before 3pm).\n\nBrand new copy from BookCurl \u2013 the UK independent online bookseller.\n\n------------------------------\nBook details\n------------------------------\nAuthor: Jerome McGann\nTitle: Culture and Language at Crossed Purposes\nFormat: Paperback\nLanguage: English\nTopic: Education\nPublisher: The University of Chicago Press\nPublication year: 2022\nISBN-13: 9780226818467\nISBN-10: 0226818462\n\n------------------------------\nDescription\n------------------------------\nCulture and Language at Crossed Purposes unpacks the interpretive problems of colonial treaty-making and uses them to illuminate canonical works from the period.\nClassic American literature, Jerome McGann argues, is haunted by the betrayal of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Indian treatiesa stunned memory preserved in the negative space.