{"product_id":"unscripted-america-indigenous-languages-and-the-origins-of-a-literary-nation-9780190492564","title":"Unscripted America: Indigenous Languages and the Origins of a Literary Nation","description":"In 1664, French Jesuit Louis Nicolas arrived in Quebec. Upon first hearing Ojibwe, Nicolas observed that he had encountered the most barbaric language in the world--but after listening to and studying approximately fifteen Algonquian languages over a ten-year period, he wrote that he had\u003cbr\u003ediscovered all of the secrets of the most beautiful languages in the universe. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cem\u003eUnscripted America\u003c\/em\u003e is a study of how colonists in North America struggled to understand, translate, and interpret Native American languages, and the significance of these languages for theological and cosmological issues such as the origins of Amerindian populations, their relationship to Eurasian\u003cbr\u003eand Biblical peoples, and the origins of language itself. Through a close analysis of previously overlooked texts, \u003cem\u003eUnscripted America \u003c\/em\u003eplaces American Indian languages within transatlantic intellectual history, while also demonstrating how American letters emerged in the 1810s through 1830s via a\u003cbr\u003ecomplex and hitherto unexplored engagement with the legacies and aesthetic possibilities of indigenous words. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cem\u003eUnscripted America\u003c\/em\u003e contends that what scholars have more traditionally understood through the Romantic ideology of the noble savage, a vessel of antiquity among dying populations, was in fact a palimpsest of still-living indigenous populations whose presence in American literature remains traceable\u003cbr\u003ethrough words. By examining the foundation of the literary nation through language, writing, and literacy, \u003cem\u003eUnscripted America\u003c\/em\u003e revisits common conceptions regarding early america and its origins to demonstrate how the understanding of America developed out of a steadfast connection to American\u003cbr\u003eIndians, both past and present.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Sarah Rivett\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Oxford University Press, USA\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/17\/2017\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 400\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.54lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.30h x 6.10w x 1.20d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780190492564\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 05\/01\/2018\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSarah Rivett\u003c\/strong\u003e is Associate Professor of English at Princeton University and the author of T\u003cem\u003ehe Science of the Soul in Colonial New England \u003c\/em\u003e(UNC Press, 2011), which won the Brewer Prize of the American Society of Church History.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Oxford University Press, USA","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":39929202901107,"sku":"9.78E+12","price":52.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/products\/img_17c0a1a4-a57d-4d8a-8d98-0dafc70de6fe.jpg?v=1647611235","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/products\/unscripted-america-indigenous-languages-and-the-origins-of-a-literary-nation-9780190492564","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}