Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Introduction: Tangents to a Sphere 1
5. 1 The Study of Colonial American Literature, 1966-1987 12
6. 2 Preparing the Way for Stoddard 55
7. 3 Cotton Mather's Life of Phips 64
8. 4 Solomon Stoddard's Irreverent Way 79
9. 5 Sowing for the Harvest 95
10. 6 Early Nineteenth-Century Printing in Rural Massachusetts 114
11. 7 The Reverend Parsons Cooke and Ware Factory Village 140
12. 8 The Transcendentalists and Language 157
13. 9 Elizabeth Palmer Peabody and the Philosophy of Language 174
14. 10 Manufacturing Guitars for the American Parlor 190
15. 11 Thoreau and John Josselyn 221
16. 12 Thoreau's Maine Woods Indians 234
17. 13 Language and Meaning 252
18. Index 273
19. About the Author 287