| Authorizing Experience: Refigurations of the Body Politic in Seventeenth-Century New England Writing Subjects: American literature -- Colonial period ca. 1600–1775 -- History and criticism; Rhetoric -- Political aspects -- New England -- History -- 17th century; Politics and literature -- New England -- History -- 17th century; Literature and society -- New Engla; No detailed description available for "Authorizing Experience". Jim Egan is Associate Professor of English at Brown University. |