Law and Providence in Joseph Bellamy's New England: The Origins of the New Divinity in Revolutionary America. By Mark Valeri. New York: Oxford University Press, 1994. vii + 205 pp.

1996 ◽  
Vol 65 (1) ◽  
pp. 111-113
Author(s):  
Keith J. Hardman
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New York ◽  
New England ◽  
Oxford University ◽  
New Divinity ◽  
Revolutionary America ◽  
Oxford University Press

Jane Kamensky, Governing the tongue: The politics of speech in early New England. Oxford & New York: Oxford University Press, 1997. Pp. ix, 291. Hb $35.00.

2000 ◽  
Vol 29 (1) ◽  
pp. 141-144
Author(s):  
E. Jennifer Monaghan
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New England ◽  
17Th Century ◽  
Oxford University ◽  
Center Stage ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Oxford University Press

In what she terms “an exercise in historical eavesdropping”, Kamensky explores the relationship between speech and society in 17th-century New England. In doing so, she places speech at center stage in the New England experience. Her insightful study floodlights the connections between gender and speech, speech and power, community cohesiveness and community deviance. Early New Englanders, she argues, believed “speech was conduct and conduct was speech” that is, in a culture that remained largely oral, they imbued speech with powers almost as great as those of actual deeds.

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