Jonathan Beecher Field
Biographic Data
| ID | 5661088 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jonathan Beecher Field |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jonathan Beecher |
| FAMILY NAME | Field |
| SIGNATURE | FIELD J B |
| AFFILIATIONS | Jonathan Beecher Field is Assistant Professor of English at Clemson University. The article above proceeds from his book manuscript, “Errands into the Metropolis: New England Authors in Revolutionary London.” He is presently completing an essay titled “The Antinomian Controversy Did Not Take Place,” and this fall he will do fieldwork for an article on Boston's Duck Tours titled “Ducking History.” |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 6 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Unmoored
In 2008, Eric Slauter published an essay that appeared jointly in the William and Mary Quarterly and Early American Literature addressing what he called the “trade gap” in early American studies. To summarize: scholars of early American literature read and cite scholars of early American history, while scholars of early American history rarely return the favor. More recently, a different kind of rift has emerged in early American studies. A cohor…
Puritan Acts and Monuments
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Errands into the Metropolis
Errands into the Metropolis offers a dramatic new interpretation of the texts and contexts of early New England literature. Jonathan Beecher Field inverts the familiar paradigm of colonization as an errand into the wilderness to demonstrate, instead, that New England was shaped and re-shaped by a series of return trips to a metropolitan London convulsed with political turmoil. In London, dissidents and their more orthodox antagonists contended fo…
A Key for the Gate
Roger Williams's A Key into the Language of America (1644) played an unheralded role in his effort to secure a patent for Providence Plantations. Written in the form of a bilingual dialogue between English and Indians, the Key echoes linguistic works then popular in London and, in presenting a civilized Indian populace, legitimates the land transaction supporting Williams's patent claim
American Georgics
Book Review| June 01 2003 American Georgics: Economy and Environment in Early American Literature; Working the Garden: American Writers and the Industrialization of Agriculture By Timothy Sweet. Philadelphia: Univ. of Pennsylvania Press. 2001. 222 pp.$45.00.By William Conlogue. Chapel Hill: Univ. of North Carolina Press. 2001. 230 pp. Cloth, $39.95; paper, $18.95. Jonathan Beecher Field Jonathan Beecher Field Search for other works by this author…
Authorizing Experience
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Authorizing Experience
American Georgics
Book Review| June 01 2003 American Georgics: Economy and Environment in Early American Literature; Working the Garden: American Writers and the Industrialization of Agriculture By Timothy Sweet. Philadelphia: Univ. of Pennsylvania Press. 2001. 222 pp.$45.00.By William Conlogue. Chapel Hill: Univ. of North Carolina Press. 2001. 230 pp. Cloth, $39.95; paper, $18.95. Jonathan Beecher Field Jonathan Beecher Field Search for other works by this author…
A Key for the Gate
Roger Williams's A Key into the Language of America (1644) played an unheralded role in his effort to secure a patent for Providence Plantations. Written in the form of a bilingual dialogue between English and Indians, the Key echoes linguistic works then popular in London and, in presenting a civilized Indian populace, legitimates the land transaction supporting Williams's patent claim
Errands into the Metropolis
Errands into the Metropolis offers a dramatic new interpretation of the texts and contexts of early New England literature. Jonathan Beecher Field inverts the familiar paradigm of colonization as an errand into the wilderness to demonstrate, instead, that New England was shaped and re-shaped by a series of return trips to a metropolitan London convulsed with political turmoil. In London, dissidents and their more orthodox antagonists contended fo…
Puritan Acts and Monuments
A summary is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content.
Unmoored
In 2008, Eric Slauter published an essay that appeared jointly in the William and Mary Quarterly and Early American Literature addressing what he called the “trade gap” in early American studies. To summarize: scholars of early American literature read and cite scholars of early American history, while scholars of early American history rarely return the favor. More recently, a different kind of rift has emerged in early American studies. A cohor…
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