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Pillars of Salt, Monuments of Grace
Daniel A. Cohen
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New England Crime Literature and the Origins of American Popular Culture, 1674-1860
出版Liverpool University Press, 2006-01-01
主題Social Science / Popular CultureLiterary Criticism / GeneralLiterary Criticism / American / GeneralLiterary Criticism / Mystery & Detective
ISBN15584952909781558495296
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=r5b_B2jOORIC&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋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.