Counting bodies population in colonial American writing Farrell, Molly. creator text bibliography Electronic books. Criticism, interpretation, etc. History nyu 2016 monographic eng remote 1 online resource : illustrations, maps Looking to work by William Bradford, Anne Bradstreet, Richard Ligon, Mary Rowlandson, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, and others, Counting Bodies explores the imaginative, personal, and narrative writings that performed the cultural work of normalizing the enumeration of bodies. Introduction: stories of cataclysm and population -- Poetics of the ark ashore -- Measuring Caribbean aesthetics -- Counting in King Philip's War -- The death and life of colonial mortality bills -- Epilogue: Mourning the Figure of Three-fifths. Molly Farrell. Includes bibliographical references and index. n-us--- American literature Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 History and criticism American literature Revolutionary period, 1775-1783 History and criticism Population in literature Minorities in literature Literature and society United States History Littérature américaine ca 1600-1775 (Période coloniale) Histoire et critique Littérature américaine 1775-1783 (Période révolutionnaire) Histoire et critique Population dans la littérature Littérature et société États-Unis Histoire LITERARY CRITICISM American General American literature Colonial period American literature Revolutionary period (United States) Literature and society Minorities in literature Population in literature United States 1600-1783 fast PS195.P66 F38 2016eb 810.9/355 Counting bodies Farrell, Molly. New York : Oxford University Press, 2016 (DLC) 2015040571 (OCoLC)938989604 9780190277321 0190277327 9780190277338 0190277335 9780190277314 0190277319 9780190607654 2015040571 http://proxy.library.tamu.edu/login?url=https://academic.oup.com/book/4925 N$T 160725 20260319162532.8 in00005713577 eng