Jerome McGann is University Professor Emeritus at the University of Virginia and visiting research professor at the University of California, Berkeley.  He is a director of the online editorial project “Jaime de Angulo’s Old Time Stories: Voice, Text, Image.”

• List of FiguresPrefaceIntroduction1: Scope and Method2: The Exceptional Encounter3: On Native Grounds: North American Treaty-Making (ca. 1609–1721)Part I: Puritan Enlightenment: Via DolorosaPrologue4: William Bradford: The Diary (1620–21), the History (Of Plymouth Plantation), and the Hebrew Studies5: John Winthrop: From Journal to History6: Anne Bradstreet: The World Elsewhere7: Cotton Mather’s MagnaliaInterchapter 1. Covenant Chain Treaty-Making and Franklin’s FoliosPart II. Secular Enlightenment: The Importance of Failure8: Franklin’s Autobiography: Composition as Explanation9: The Education of Thomas JeffersonInterchapter 2. The End of Kaswentha: A Brief HistoryPart III. Truth and Method10: The Arbella Sermon: A Case Study11: The American Scholar in the Twenty-first CenturyAcknowledgmentsNotesIndex

“Bradford, Winthrop, Bradstreet, Mather, Franklin, Jefferson—over one hundred years of North American colonial treaty-making. McGann has spent the last decade studying early American texts, but this book reflects an entire career of fierce reading. Culture and Language at Crossed Purposes is an exercise in accuracy, thoroughness, and candor, the values that McGann calls for in scholarship today. His enduring concern with method makes this an important book for readers in the humanities more broadly.”

Jerome McGann is University Professor Emeritus at the University of Virginia and visiting research professor at the University of California, Berkeley.  He is a director of the online editorial project “Jaime de Angulo’s Old Time Stories: Voice, Text, Image.”

• List of FiguresPrefaceIntroduction1: Scope and Method2: The Exceptional Encounter3: On Native Grounds: North American Treaty-Making (ca. 1609–1721)Part I: Puritan Enlightenment: Via DolorosaPrologue4: William Bradford: The Diary (1620–21), the History (Of Plymouth Plantation), and the Hebrew Studies5: John Winthrop: From Journal to History6: Anne Bradstreet: The World Elsewhere7: Cotton Mather’s MagnaliaInterchapter 1. Covenant Chain Treaty-Making and Franklin’s FoliosPart II. Secular Enlightenment: The Importance of Failure8: Franklin’s Autobiography: Composition as Explanation9: The Education of Thomas JeffersonInterchapter 2. The End of Kaswentha: A Brief HistoryPart III. Truth and Method10: The Arbella Sermon: A Case Study11: The American Scholar in the Twenty-first CenturyAcknowledgmentsNotesIndex

“Bradford, Winthrop, Bradstreet, Mather, Franklin, Jefferson—over one hundred years of North American colonial treaty-making. McGann has spent the last decade studying early American texts, but this book reflects an entire career of fierce reading. Culture and Language at Crossed Purposes is an exercise in accuracy, thoroughness, and candor, the values that McGann calls for in scholarship today. His enduring concern with method makes this an important book for readers in the humanities more broadly.”

Jerome McGann is University Professor Emeritus at the University of Virginia and visiting research professor at the University of California, Berkeley.  He is a director of the online editorial project “Jaime de Angulo’s Old Time Stories: Voice, Text, Image.”

• List of FiguresPrefaceIntroduction1: Scope and Method2: The Exceptional Encounter3: On Native Grounds: North American Treaty-Making (ca. 1609–1721)Part I: Puritan Enlightenment: Via DolorosaPrologue4: William Bradford: The Diary (1620–21), the History (Of Plymouth Plantation), and the Hebrew Studies5: John Winthrop: From Journal to History6: Anne Bradstreet: The World Elsewhere7: Cotton Mather’s MagnaliaInterchapter 1. Covenant Chain Treaty-Making and Franklin’s FoliosPart II. Secular Enlightenment: The Importance of Failure8: Franklin’s Autobiography: Composition as Explanation9: The Education of Thomas JeffersonInterchapter 2. The End of Kaswentha: A Brief HistoryPart III. Truth and Method10: The Arbella Sermon: A Case Study11: The American Scholar in the Twenty-first CenturyAcknowledgmentsNotesIndex

“Bradford, Winthrop, Bradstreet, Mather, Franklin, Jefferson—over one hundred years of North American colonial treaty-making. McGann has spent the last decade studying early American texts, but this book reflects an entire career of fierce reading. Culture and Language at Crossed Purposes is an exercise in accuracy, thoroughness, and candor, the values that McGann calls for in scholarship today. His enduring concern with method makes this an important book for readers in the humanities more broadly.”