| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 105.5

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Canada and the United States

Jane Kamensky. Governing the Tongue: The Politics of Speech in Early New England. New York: Oxford University Press. 1997. Pp. ix, 291. $19.95.

Since Perry Miller published the first volume of The New England Mind: The Seventeenth Century (1939), historians have known that Puritans were about language. Puritan writings have been exhaustively analyzed from the structures of argument to tropes to use of biblical imagery, yet little attention has been paid to the spoken word. With the exception of Harry S. Stout's powerful study of sermons, (The New England Soul: Preaching and Religious Culture in Colonial New England [1986]), the very act of speaking and the structures and boundaries governing public expression have remained unexplored. Jane Kamensky moves into this space with skill and insight, navigating carefully the methodological problem of locating authentic, oral voices in old written records. . . .

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