Pillars of Salt, Monuments of Grace: New England Crime Literature and the Origins of American Popular Culture, 1674-1860In this innovative study, Daniel A. Cohen explores a major cultural shift embodied in hundreds of early New England crime publications. Tracing the declining authority of Puritan ministers, he shows how the arbiters of an increasingly pluralistic literary marketplace gradually supplanted pious execution sermons with last-speech broadsides, gallows verses, criminal autobiographies, trial reports, newspaper stories, and romantic docudramas. Pillars of Salt, Monuments of Grace probes the forgotten origins of our modern mass media's preoccupation with crime and punishment. |
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Seite 329 - Richard D. Altick, The English common reader: a social history of the mass reading public, 1800-1900 (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1957), pp.
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| Titel | Pillars of Salt, Monuments of Grace: New England Crime Literature and the Origins of American Popular Culture, 1674-1860 Commonwealth Center Studies in American Culture Commonwealth Center Studies in |
| Autor/in | Daniel A. Cohen |
| Ausgabe | illustriert, Neuauflage |
| Verlag | Liverpool University Press, 2006 |
| ISBN | 1558495290, 9781558495296 |
| Länge | 350 Seiten |
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