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by Nancy Armstrong| 1992| 288 pages| 18| English

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Nancy Armstrong and Leonard Tennenhouse challenge traditional accounts of the origins of modern Anglo-American culture by focusing on the emergence of print culture in England and the North American colonies. They postulate a modern middle class that consisted of authors and intellectuals who literally wrote a new culture into being.Milton’s Paradise Lost marks the emergence of this new literacy. The authors show how Milton helped transform English culture into one of self-enclosed families made up of self-enclosed individuals. However, the authors point out that the popularity of Paradise Lost was matched by that of the Indian captivity narratives that flowed into England from the American colonies. Mary Rowlandson’s account of her forcible separation from the culture of her origins stresses the ordinary person’s ability to regain those lost origins, provided she remains truly English. In a colonial version of the Miltonic paradigm, Rowlandson sought to return to a f

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Author:Nancy Armstrong
Publication Year:1992
ISBN:9780520086432
Pages:288
Language:English
File Size:18
Format:PDF
Price:FREE
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