John Eliot and the Praying Indians of Massachusetts Bay - Communities and Connections in Puritan New England

The book is about John Eliot and his mission to Massachusetts Bay; it analyzes the English-speaking and Algonquian-speaking communities that coalesced in the process of this missionary project. In this context, the study pays special attention to the reception of speech and text in relation to English, colonial, and praying Indian communities.

List of contents

Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
Introduction
One: Private petitions and transatlantic discursive communities
Two: Dedicated dignitaries and 'The Christian Reader': reading the mission in England
Three: Speech, Space and Religious (Re-)Affirmation
Four: Christian Indian Women in Seventeenth-Century New England
Five: A Reading Community: Praying Indians and the Written Word
Bibliography
Index
About the Author

About the author

Kathryn N. Gray is a lecturer in English Literature at Plymouth University.

Product details

• Authors: Kathryn N. Gray
• Publisher: Bucknell University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 12.09.2013
• EAN: 9781611485035
• ISBN: 978-1-61148-503-5
• No. of pages: 192
• Dimensions: 157 mm x 235 mm x 15 mm
• Weight: 437 g
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories