{"product_id":"the-pilgrim-and-the-bee-9780812240153","title":"The Pilgrim and the Bee","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"The Pilgrim and the Bee makes a broad claim about a reading-centered history, reclaiming for this purpose a distinctive body of texts. Brown's analysis marks an important step toward a better history of reading.\"-David D. Hall, Harvard University\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eThe Pilgrim and the Bee\u003c\/i\u003e makes a broad claim about a reading-centered history, reclaiming for this purpose a distinctive body of texts. Brown's analysis marks an important step toward a better history of reading.\" * David D. Hall, Harvard University *\u003cbr\u003e\"As befits a book about books as objects, \u003ci\u003eThe Pilgrim and the Bee\u003c\/i\u003e adds aesthetic satisfactions to its intellectual pleasures. I suspect that many readers will relate to this beautifully illustrated book as puritan readers related to the devotional steady sellers, marking up Brown's rich array of examples and his provocative readings, and returning to them for further contemplation like the bee of Brown's apt title.\" * \u003ci\u003eJournal of American History\u003c\/i\u003e *\u003cbr\u003e\"Brown's work genuinely advances the terms of scholarly debate by combining methodological innovation with a metacritical rigor that is as nuanced as it is compelling.\" * \u003ci\u003eAmerican Literature\u003c\/i\u003e *\u003cbr\u003e\"In this book Brown offers sustained, nuanced readings of devotional texts usually relegated to the role of context and provides fresh perspective on more frequently examined genres like jeremiads and elegies. . . . More than simply expanding the early American literary canon with the addition of a few steady sellers, Brown calls attention to the contingencies of the surviving archive and the politics of the canon that emerged from it.\" * \u003ci\u003eEarly American Literature\u003c\/i\u003e *\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eThe Pilgrim and the Bee\u003c\/i\u003e is an absorbing work and a real contribution to the study of the material culture of the Puritans and how the religious practices of the community deeply informed their reading.\" * \u003ci\u003eRocky Mountain Review\u003c\/i\u003e *\u003cbr\u003e\"\"If you have even a passing interest in seeing what the history of the book looks like when it achieves intellectual maturity, then \u003ci\u003eThe Pilgrim and the Bee\u003c\/i\u003e is certainly worth your time. . . . This important study has implications for a wide range of readers.\" * \u003ci\u003eCommon-place\u003c\/i\u003e *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003ePreface: A Phenomenology of the Book\u003cbr\u003e Introduction: Toward a Reader-Based Literary History\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 1. The Presence of the Text\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 2. Devotional Steady Sellers and the Conduct of Reading\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 3. Ritual Fasting\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 4. Ritual Mourning\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 5. Race, Literacy, and the Eliot Mission\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography\u003cbr\u003e Index\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Pennsylvania Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49405713449303,"sku":"9780812240153","price":52.7,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780812240153.jpg?v=1730493371","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-pilgrim-and-the-bee-9780812240153","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}