Sarah Rivett: 2 books
by Sarah Rivett
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
The Science of the Soul challenges long-standing notions of Puritan provincialism as antithetical to the Enlightenment. Sarah Rivett demonstrates that, instead, empiricism and natural philosophy combined with Puritanism to transform the scope of religious activity in colonial New England from the...
Unscripted America
Indigenous Languages and the Origins of a Literary Nation
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2017
In 1664, French Jesuit Louis Nicolas arrived in Quebec. Upon first hearing Ojibwe, Nicolas observed that he had encountered the most barbaric language in the world--but after listening to and studying approximately fifteen Algonquian languages over a ten-year period, he wrote that he had "discovered...