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From Sacred to Secular
Barbara E. Lacey
其他書名
Visual Images in Early American Publications
出版University of Delaware Press, 2007
主題Art / Popular CultureDesign / Graphic Arts / IllustrationLanguage Arts & Disciplines / Publishers & Publishing IndustrySocial Science / Popular CultureSocial Science / Sociology / General
ISBN08741396199780874139617
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=pHZa58ZyD-sC&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋This examination of illustrations in early American books, pamphlets, magazines, almanacs, and broadsides provides a new perspective on the social, cultural, and political environment of the late colonial period and the early republic. American printers and engravers drew upon a rich tradition of Christian visual imagery. Used first to inculcate Protestant doctrines, regional symbolism later served to promote reverence for the new republic. The chapters are devoted to momento mori imagery, children's readers, visionary literature, and illustrated Bibles. One chapter shows the demonization of the Indians even as the Indian was being adopted as a symbol of America. Other chapters deal with propaganda for the American Revolution, canonization of leaders, secularized roles for women, and socialization of sites in the new nation.Throughout, analysis of image and text shows how the religious and the secular contrasted, coexisted, and intermingled in eighteenth-century American illustrated imprints. Barbara E. Lacey is a Professor of history at St. Joseph College. It includes more than 110 illustrations.