How Long to Read Culture and Language at Crossed Purposes

How Long Does it Take to Read Culture and Language at Crossed Purposes?

It takes the average reader 4 hours and 50 minutes to read Culture and Language at Crossed Purposes by Jerome McGann

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

Culture and Language at Crossed Purposes unpacks the interpretive problems of colonial treaty-making and uses them to illuminate canonical works from the period. Classic American literature, Jerome McGann argues, is haunted by the betrayal of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Indian treaties—“a stunned memory preserved in the negative spaces of the treaty records.” A noted scholar of the “textual conditions” of literature, McGann investigates canonical works from the colonial period, including the Arbella sermon and key writings of William Bradford, John Winthrop, Anne Bradstreet, Cotton Mather’s Magnalia, Benjamin Franklin’s celebrated treaty folios and Autobiography, and Thomas Jefferson’s Notes on the State of Virginia. These are highly practical, purpose-driven works—the record of Enlightenment dreams put to the severe test of dangerous conditions. McGann suggests that the treaty-makers never doubted the unsettled character of what they were prosecuting, and a similar conflicted ethos pervades these works. Like the treaty records, they deliberately test themselves against stringent measures of truth and accomplishment and show a distinctive consciousness of their limits and failures. McGann’s book is ultimately a reminder of the public importance of truth and memory—the vocational commitments of humanist scholars and educators.

How long is Culture and Language at Crossed Purposes?

Culture and Language at Crossed Purposes by Jerome McGann is 285 pages long, and a total of 72,675 words.

This makes it 96% the length of the average book. It also has 89% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Culture and Language at Crossed Purposes Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 6 hours and 37 minutes to read Culture and Language at Crossed Purposes aloud.

What Reading Level is Culture and Language at Crossed Purposes?

Culture and Language at Crossed Purposes is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

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