The ethics of identity: Constructions of self and other in the nineteenth century American landscape.

When the Puritan fathers sailed to the new world, they did so, in the language of Martin Buber, to build a new house in the cosmos, one grounded in a rigorous notion of faith and Christian virtue. The journey to America was represented as both a mythic and heroic quest--one rooted in an ideology of...

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Main Author: Bolton, Linda.
Other Authors: Sherry, Charles
Language:en
Published: The University of Arizona. 1994
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10150/186935