A harmony of the spirits : translation and the language of community in early Pennsylvania /

A harmony of the spirits : translation and the language of community in early Pennsylvania / Patrick M. Erben.

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In early Pennsylvania, translation served as a utopian tool creating harmony across linguistic, religious, and ethnic differences. This book challenges the long-standing historical myth - first promulgated by Benjamin Franklin - that language diversity posed a threat to communal coherence. It deftly...

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Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Main Author: Erben, Patrick M. (Patrick Michael)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Chapel Hill : Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia, by the University of North Carolina Press, [2012]
Subjects:
Language and languages > Variation.
Language and culture > United States.
Language and culture.
Language and languages.
Pennsylvania > History.
Pennsylvania > Languages.
Pennsylvania.
United States.
History.
Table of Contents:
  • "Unter der Leitung seines Geistes": Spiritual translation in early America
  • Reversing the heritage of Babel: Visions of religious and linguistic renewal in seventeenth-century Europe
  • Translating Pennsylvania: visions of spiritual community in promotional literature
  • Debating Pennsylvania: religious and linguistic diversity and difference
  • "Honey-combs" and "paper-hives": Francis Daniel Pastorius and the gathering of a translingual community of letters
  • A hidden voice amplified: music, mysticism, and translation
  • "What will become of Pennsylvania?": war, community and the language of suffering for peace
  • Confusio linguarum redux: Moravian missions, multilingualism, and the search for a spiritual language.

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