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Title:
A harmony of the spirits : translation and the language of community in early Pennsylvania
Author:
Erben, Patrick M. (Patrick Michael)
ISBN:
9781469601342
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1 online resource (xvi, 335 pages) : illustrations
Abstract:
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 traces the pansophist and Neoplatonist philosophies of European reformers that informed the radical English and German Protestants who founded the 'holy experiment'.
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