Title Counting bodies : population in colonial American writing / Molly Farrell

Published New York : Oxford University Press, 2016

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Description 1 online resource : illustrations, maps Contents Introduction: stories of cataclysm and population -- Poetics of the ark ashore -- Measuring Caribbean aesthetics -- Counting in King Philip's War -- The death and life of colonial mortality bills -- Epilogue: Mourning the Figure of Three-fifths Summary Looking to work by William Bradford, Anne Bradstreet, Richard Ligon, Mary Rowlandson, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, and others, Counting Bodies explores the imaginative, personal, and narrative writings that performed the cultural work of normalizing the enumeration of bodies Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Print version record Subject American literature -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 -- History and criticism American literature -- Revolutionary period, 1775-1783 -- History and criticism Population in literature. Minorities in literature. Literature and society -- United States -- History LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General. American literature -- Colonial period American literature -- Revolutionary period (United States) Literature and society Minorities in literature Population in literature United States Genre/Form Electronic books Criticism, interpretation, etc. History Form Electronic book ISBN 9780190277321 0190277327 9780190277338 0190277335

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