Robert Blair St George
Biographic Data
| ID | 684548 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Robert Blair St George |
| GIVEN NAMES | Robert Blair St |
| FAMILY NAME | George |
| SIGNATURE | GEORGE R B S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Pennsylvania |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 24 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 17 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 22 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1979 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The Native Translator As Critic: A Nahua Playwright's Interpretive Practice
America's Folklorist: B. A. Botkin and American Culture
As a teenager I bought a copy of Benjamin A. Botkin’s The Sidewalks of America (1954). I still have the dog-eared book, and I revel in its linkage of American democracy and urban folklore. Botkin stated its theme as “the impact of the city on the American folk imagination” (p. vii). He made a compelling argument: “The folklore of cities is thus a mixture or hybrid of the old and the new, the folk and the popular. It is also a mixture of the migra…
The Invention of Comfort: Sensibilities & Design in Early Modern Britain & Early America
In this fascinating book, John E. Crowley leads the reader on a tour through several centuries of change in Anglo-American material culture. It begins with a description of hall houses and open hearths during the Middle Ages in England and accelerates through the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries with a discussion of courtesy books and the gradual installation of chimneys and glazed windows. Crowley then grounds us in the “Great Rebuilding” of …
Possible Pasts: Becoming Colonial in Early America
In Possible Pasts, Robert Blair St. George (its editor) and a host of contributors offer a long-anticipated contribution to early American history. Born out of the June 1994 “Possible Pasts: Critical Encounters in Early America” conference held at the University of Pennsylvania and jointly sponsored by the McNeil Center for Early American Studies and the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, this volume is more than a dressed…
Conversing by Signs: Poetics of Implication in Colonial New England Culture
1460-1461
The American Manufactory: Art, Labor, and the World of Things in the Early Republic
Book Review| March 01 2001 The American Manufactory: Art, Labor, and the World of Things in the Early Republic By Laura Rigal. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton Univ. Press. 1998. xii, 253 pp.$32.50. Robert Blair St. George Robert Blair St. George Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google American Literature (2001) 73 (1): 189–191. https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-73-1-189 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo…
George Washington's Mount Vernon: At Home in Revolutionary America
George Washington knew little of architecture when he planned and built Mount Vernon, but he did know what he wanted in a home. This unique and lucidly written book is the intimate story of the relationship between Mount Vernon, George Washington, and all the people involved in creating what has become one of America's greatest landmarks
Possible Pasts: Becoming Colonial in Early America
Possible Pasts represents a landmark in early American studies, bringing to that field the theoretical richness and innovative potential of the scholarship on colonial discourse and postcolonial theory. Drawing on the methods and interpretive insights of history, anthropology, history of art, folklore, and textual analysis, its authors explore the cultural processes by which individuals and societies become colonial.Rather than define early Ameri…
The Death of William Gooch: A History's Anthropology
Afterthoughts on "Material Life in America, 1600-1860": Household Space in Boston, 1670-1730
Early American Technology: Making and Doing Things from the Colonial Era to 1850
Journal Article Early American Technology: Making and Doing Things from the Colonial Era to 1830. Ed. by Judith A. McGaw. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1994. xii, 482 pp. Cloth, $49.95, ISBN 0-8078-2173-X. Paper, $19.95, ISBN 0-8078-4484-5.) Get access Robert Blair St. George Robert Blair St. George University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar J…
Ecological Revolutions: Nature, Gender, and Science in New England
Dwellings, Settlements and Tradition: Cross-Cultural Perspectives
The Refinement of America: Persons, Houses, Cities
American Folklore Scholarship: A Dialogue of Dissent
Hearth & Home: A History of Material Culture
Bawns and Beliefs: Architecture, Commerce, and Conversion in Early New England
Keeping Time: The History and Theory of Preservation in America
Architecture and Rural Life in Central Delaware 1700-1900
Mind, Nature, and Art in the Pine Barrens: An Exhibition Review The New Jersey Pinelands: Tradition and Environment . Pinelands Folklife [Exhibition Catalogue] . Rita Zorn Moonsammy , David Steven Coh…
Spirit of the New England Tribes: Indian History and Folklore, 1620-1984
Brothers in Clay: The Story of Georgia Folk Pottery
Abundantly illustrated, Brothers in Clay tells the story of Georgia's rich folk pottery tradition--the historical forces that shaped it and the families and individual artisans who continue to keep it alive. This pioneering book marked the first intensive study of a southern state's pottery heritage and the first major examination of a native Georgia art form. Drawing on interviews with practicing potters, John A. Burrison ranges widely in his co…
The Stanley-Lake Barn in Topsfield, Massachusetts: Some Comments on Agricultural Buildings in Early New England
Robert Blair St. George, The Stanley-Lake Barn in Topsfield, Massachusetts: Some Comments on Agricultural Buildings in Early New England, Perspectives in Vernacular Architecture, Vol. 1 (1982), pp. 7-23
Style and Structure in the Joinery of Dedham and Medfield, Massachusetts, 1635-1685
Possible Pasts: Becoming Colonial in Early America
Possible Pasts represents a landmark in early American studies, bringing to that field the theoretical richness and innovative potential of the scholarship on colonial discourse and postcolonial theory. Drawing on the methods and interpretive insights of history, anthropology, history of art, folklore, and textual analysis, its authors explore the cultural processes by which individuals and societies become colonial.Rather than define early Ameri…
Early American Technology: Making and Doing Things from the Colonial Era to 1850
Journal Article Early American Technology: Making and Doing Things from the Colonial Era to 1830. Ed. by Judith A. McGaw. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1994. xii, 482 pp. Cloth, $49.95, ISBN 0-8078-2173-X. Paper, $19.95, ISBN 0-8078-4484-5.) Get access Robert Blair St. George Robert Blair St. George University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar J…
Ecological Revolutions: Nature, Gender, and Science in New England
Bawns and Beliefs: Architecture, Commerce, and Conversion in Early New England
Brothers in Clay: The Story of Georgia Folk Pottery
Abundantly illustrated, Brothers in Clay tells the story of Georgia's rich folk pottery tradition--the historical forces that shaped it and the families and individual artisans who continue to keep it alive. This pioneering book marked the first intensive study of a southern state's pottery heritage and the first major examination of a native Georgia art form. Drawing on interviews with practicing potters, John A. Burrison ranges widely in his co…
The Stanley-Lake Barn in Topsfield, Massachusetts: Some Comments on Agricultural Buildings in Early New England
Robert Blair St. George, The Stanley-Lake Barn in Topsfield, Massachusetts: Some Comments on Agricultural Buildings in Early New England, Perspectives in Vernacular Architecture, Vol. 1 (1982), pp. 7-23
George Washington's Mount Vernon: At Home in Revolutionary America
George Washington knew little of architecture when he planned and built Mount Vernon, but he did know what he wanted in a home. This unique and lucidly written book is the intimate story of the relationship between Mount Vernon, George Washington, and all the people involved in creating what has become one of America's greatest landmarks
Style and Structure in the Joinery of Dedham and Medfield, Massachusetts, 1635-1685
The Stanley-Lake Barn in Topsfield, Massachusetts: Some Comments on Agricultural Buildings in Early New England
Robert Blair St. George, The Stanley-Lake Barn in Topsfield, Massachusetts: Some Comments on Agricultural Buildings in Early New England, Perspectives in Vernacular Architecture, Vol. 1 (1982), pp. 7-23
Brothers in Clay: The Story of Georgia Folk Pottery
Abundantly illustrated, Brothers in Clay tells the story of Georgia's rich folk pottery tradition--the historical forces that shaped it and the families and individual artisans who continue to keep it alive. This pioneering book marked the first intensive study of a southern state's pottery heritage and the first major examination of a native Georgia art form. Drawing on interviews with practicing potters, John A. Burrison ranges widely in his co…
Mind, Nature, and Art in the Pine Barrens: An Exhibition Review The New Jersey Pinelands: Tradition and Environment . Pinelands Folklife [Exhibition Catalogue] . Rita Zorn Moonsammy , David Steven Coh…
Spirit of the New England Tribes: Indian History and Folklore, 1620-1984
Keeping Time: The History and Theory of Preservation in America
Architecture and Rural Life in Central Delaware 1700-1900
Bawns and Beliefs: Architecture, Commerce, and Conversion in Early New England
American Folklore Scholarship: A Dialogue of Dissent
Hearth & Home: A History of Material Culture
The Refinement of America: Persons, Houses, Cities
Ecological Revolutions: Nature, Gender, and Science in New England
Dwellings, Settlements and Tradition: Cross-Cultural Perspectives
Early American Technology: Making and Doing Things from the Colonial Era to 1850
Journal Article Early American Technology: Making and Doing Things from the Colonial Era to 1830. Ed. by Judith A. McGaw. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1994. xii, 482 pp. Cloth, $49.95, ISBN 0-8078-2173-X. Paper, $19.95, ISBN 0-8078-4484-5.) Get access Robert Blair St. George Robert Blair St. George University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar J…
Afterthoughts on "Material Life in America, 1600-1860": Household Space in Boston, 1670-1730
The Death of William Gooch: A History's Anthropology
George Washington's Mount Vernon: At Home in Revolutionary America
George Washington knew little of architecture when he planned and built Mount Vernon, but he did know what he wanted in a home. This unique and lucidly written book is the intimate story of the relationship between Mount Vernon, George Washington, and all the people involved in creating what has become one of America's greatest landmarks
Possible Pasts: Becoming Colonial in Early America
Possible Pasts represents a landmark in early American studies, bringing to that field the theoretical richness and innovative potential of the scholarship on colonial discourse and postcolonial theory. Drawing on the methods and interpretive insights of history, anthropology, history of art, folklore, and textual analysis, its authors explore the cultural processes by which individuals and societies become colonial.Rather than define early Ameri…
Conversing by Signs: Poetics of Implication in Colonial New England Culture
1460-1461
The American Manufactory: Art, Labor, and the World of Things in the Early Republic
Book Review| March 01 2001 The American Manufactory: Art, Labor, and the World of Things in the Early Republic By Laura Rigal. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton Univ. Press. 1998. xii, 253 pp.$32.50. Robert Blair St. George Robert Blair St. George Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google American Literature (2001) 73 (1): 189–191. https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-73-1-189 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo…
The Invention of Comfort: Sensibilities & Design in Early Modern Britain & Early America
In this fascinating book, John E. Crowley leads the reader on a tour through several centuries of change in Anglo-American material culture. It begins with a description of hall houses and open hearths during the Middle Ages in England and accelerates through the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries with a discussion of courtesy books and the gradual installation of chimneys and glazed windows. Crowley then grounds us in the “Great Rebuilding” of …
Possible Pasts: Becoming Colonial in Early America
In Possible Pasts, Robert Blair St. George (its editor) and a host of contributors offer a long-anticipated contribution to early American history. Born out of the June 1994 “Possible Pasts: Critical Encounters in Early America” conference held at the University of Pennsylvania and jointly sponsored by the McNeil Center for Early American Studies and the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, this volume is more than a dressed…
America's Folklorist: B. A. Botkin and American Culture
As a teenager I bought a copy of Benjamin A. Botkin’s The Sidewalks of America (1954). I still have the dog-eared book, and I revel in its linkage of American democracy and urban folklore. Botkin stated its theme as “the impact of the city on the American folk imagination” (p. vii). He made a compelling argument: “The folklore of cities is thus a mixture or hybrid of the old and the new, the folk and the popular. It is also a mixture of the migra…
The Native Translator As Critic: A Nahua Playwright's Interpretive Practice
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