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A Harmony of the Spirits: Translation and the Language of Community in Early Pennsylvania (Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American Hist)

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In early Pennsylvania, translation served as a utopian tool creating harmony across linguistic, religious, and ethnic differences. Patrick Erben challenges the long-standing historical myth—first promulgated by Benjamin Franklin—that language diversity posed a threat to communal coherence. He deftly traces the pansophist and Neoplatonist philosophies of European reformers that informed the radical English and German Protestants who founded the "holy experiment." Their belief in hidden yet persistent links between human language and the word of God impelled their vision of a common spiritual idiom. Translation became the search for underlying correspondences between diverse human expressions of the divine and served as a model for reconciliation and inclusiveness. By revealing a mystical quest for unity, Erben presents a compelling counternarrative to monolingualism and Enlightenment empiricism in eighteenth-century America.
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Patrick M. Erben is associate professor of English at the University of West Georgia.
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ISBN:
9780807835579
Author:
Erben, Patrick M.
Publisher:
University of North Carolina Press
Author:
Erben, Patrick
Subject:
United States / Colonial Period(1600-1775)
Subject:
Colonial North America
Subject:
Pennsylvania
Subject:
Philadelphia
Subject:
Germantown
Subject:
Ephrata (Pa.)
Subject:
Bethlehem (Pa.)
Subject:
early modern period
Subject:
Seventeenth century
Subject:
Eighteenth century
Subject:
Language
Subject:
Babel
Subject:
Confusion of Languages
Subject:
Spiritual Language
Subject:
Pure Language
Subject:
Spiritual Community
Subject:
Friendship
Subject:
Translation Multilingualism
Subject:
Translingualism
Subject:
Universal Language Movement
Subject:
Perfect Language Movement
Subject:
Pansophism
Subject:
Utopianism
Subject:
Neoplatonism
Subject:
Rosicrucianism
Subject:
Radical Protestantism
Subject:
Quakers
Subject:
Pietists
Subject:
Pietism
Subject:
Anabaptists
Subject:
Anabaptism
Subject:
Mennonites
Subject:
Moravians
Subject:
German Peace Sects
Subject:
Schwenkfelders
Subject:
German Seventh Day Baptists
Subject:
Dunkers
Subject:
Church of the Brethren
Subject:
Jakob Boehme
Subject:
Jan Amos Comenius
Subject:
George Fox
Subject:
William Penn
Subject:
Francis Daniel Pastorius
Subject:
Philadelphian Society
Subject:
George Keith
Subject:
Johannes Kelpius
Subject:
Conrad Beissel
Subject:
Peter Miller
Subject:
Count Nicholas Ludwig von Zinzendorf
Subject:
Christoph Saur
Subject:
Benjamin, Franklin
Subject:
Israel Pemberton
Subject:
Christopher Schultz
Subject:
Anthony Benezet
Subject:
David Zeisberger
Subject:
John Heckewelder
Subject:
Holy Experiment
Subject:
Promotional Literature
Subject:
German Immigration
Subject:
Keithian Controversy
Subject:
Hymnody
Subject:
Hymn Singing
Subject:
War
Subject:
Defense
Subject:
Pacifism
Subject:
nonresistance
Subject:
Suffering
Subject:
Martyrdom
Subject:
Friendly Association
Subject:
Native American missions
Subject:
Francis Daniel Pastorius, "The Bee-Hive" Manuscript
Subject:
The Martyrs Mirror (Ephrata, 1748/49) /
Subject:
US History-Colonial America
Subject:
Seventeenth
Subject:
century
Copyright:
2012
Publication Date:
20120631
Binding:
HARDCOVER
Language:
English
Illustrations:
18 halftones
Pages:
352
Dimensions:
9.25 x 6.125 in
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