Unscripted America reconstructs an archive of indigenous language texts in order to present a new and wholly unique account of their impact on philosophy and US literary culture.
Offers wealth of new archival sources of American Indian language texts~Provides new account of the impact of Euro-indigenous language encounters on philosophy, religion, and literature~Demonstrates centrality of the occluded figure of the Indian in American literary history~Argues that the knowledge exchanged between Europeans and indigenous populations transformed understandings of language
The Science of the Soul" challenges long-standing notions of Puritan provincialism as antithetical to the Enlightenment. Sarah Rivett demonstrates that, instead, empiricism and natural philosophy combined with Puritanism to transform the scope of religious activity in colonial New England from the 1630s to the Great Awakening of the 1740s.
