Counting bodies : population in colonial American writing /

Counting bodies : population in colonial American writing /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Farrell, Molly (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Oxford University Press, [2016]
Subjects:
American literature > Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 > History and criticism.
American literature > Revolutionary period, 1775-1783 > History and criticism.
Population in literature.
Minorities in literature.
Literature and society > United States > History.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: stories of cataclysm and population
  • Poetics of the ark ashore
  • Measuring Caribbean aesthetics
  • Counting in King Philip's War
  • The death and life of colonial mortality bills
  • Epilogue: Mourning the Figure of Three-fifths.