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Book Review

Canada and the United States

Phillip H. Round. By Nature and By Custom Cursed: Transatlantic Civil Discourse and New England Cultural Production, 1620–1660. (Civil Society: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives.) Hanover, N.H.: University Press of New England. 1999. Pp. xiii, 317. Cloth $45.00, paper $21.00.

Seventeenth-century New England continues to lure students to its literature, even though the region's bibliography is so vast that in itself it constitutes a field of study. As the tides of academic fashion shift and turn, scholars focus the newest methodological lens on the Puritans, in the hope that their readings will elucidate more of the mysterious sway these colonists still hold over us. In Phillip H. Round's case, the tools come from sociolinguistics and cultural studies, but fortunately he uses his theorists—Pierre Bourdieu is particularly prominent—more as fertilizer than staple. In a wide-ranging study of "the social dimensions of New England utterance" (p. xi), he sheds new light on a full range of well-known texts: early exploration accounts, controversial literature, the poetry of Anne Bradstreet, and writings about Native Americans, to cite but a few. Although not wholly free of the jargon that frequently disfigures work in cultural studies, this book is a worthwhile addition to recent work on colonial New England. . . .

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