A harmony of the spirits : translation and the language of community in early Pennsylvania / Patrick M. Erben.

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Erben, Patrick M. (Patrick Michael) [Author]

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Chapel Hill : Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia, by the University of North Carolina Press, (c)2012.Description: 1 online resource (xvi, 335 pages) : illustrationsContent type:

text

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computer

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online resource

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9781469601342

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Electronic Books.

LOC classification:

P120 .H376 2012

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Contents:

Reversing the heritage of Babel: Visions of religious and linguistic renewal in seventeenth-century Europe -- Translating Pennsylvania: visions of spiritual community in promotional literature -- Debating Pennsylvania: religious and linguistic diversity and difference -- "Honey-combs" and "paper-hives": Francis Daniel Pastorius and the gathering of a translingual community of letters -- A hidden voice amplified: music, mysticism, and translation -- "What will become of Pennsylvania?": war, community and the language of suffering for peace -- Confusio linguarum redux: Moravian missions, multilingualism, and the search for a spiritual language.

Summary: In early Pennsylvania, translation served as a utopian tool creating harmony across linguistic, religious, and ethnic differences. This book challenges the long-standing historical myth - first promulgated by Benjamin Franklin - that language diversity posed a threat to communal coherence. It deftly traces the pansophist and Neoplatonist philosophies of European reformers that informed the radical English and German Protestants who founded the 'holy experiment'.

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Includes bibliographies and index.

"Unter der Leitung seines Geistes": Spiritual translation in early America -- Reversing the heritage of Babel: Visions of religious and linguistic renewal in seventeenth-century Europe -- Translating Pennsylvania: visions of spiritual community in promotional literature -- Debating Pennsylvania: religious and linguistic diversity and difference -- "Honey-combs" and "paper-hives": Francis Daniel Pastorius and the gathering of a translingual community of letters -- A hidden voice amplified: music, mysticism, and translation -- "What will become of Pennsylvania?": war, community and the language of suffering for peace -- Confusio linguarum redux: Moravian missions, multilingualism, and the search for a spiritual language.

In early Pennsylvania, translation served as a utopian tool creating harmony across linguistic, religious, and ethnic differences. This book challenges the long-standing historical myth - first promulgated by Benjamin Franklin - that language diversity posed a threat to communal coherence. It deftly traces the pansophist and Neoplatonist philosophies of European reformers that informed the radical English and German Protestants who founded the 'holy experiment'.

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