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)
ISBN-13:
9781558495296
ISBN-10:
1558495290
Edition:
First Edition
Author:
Daniel A. Cohen
Publication date:
2006
Publisher:
University of Massachusetts Press
Format:
Paperback
368 pages
Category:
Popular Culture
,
Social Sciences
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ISBN-13:
9781558495296
ISBN-10:
1558495290
Edition:
First Edition
Author:
Daniel A. Cohen
Publication date:
2006
Publisher:
University of Massachusetts Press
Format:
Paperback
368 pages
Category:
Popular Culture
,
Social Sciences
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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) (ISBN-13: 9781558495296 and ISBN-10: 1558495290), written by authors
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In 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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