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William Bradford's Books: Of Plimmoth Plantation and the Printed Word.(Book Review)

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William Bradford's Books: Of Plimmoth Plantation and the Printed Word. By Douglas Anderson. Baltimore, Md.: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003. ix, 273 pp. $45.00. ISBN 0-8018-7074-7.

After knowing William Bradford's Of Plimmoth Plantation for so long, readers may be surprised that Douglas Anderson has discovered new insights about it or that these arrive by ordinary routes: close reading, historical contextualization, textual criticism, and comparative analysis. Yet in William Bradford's Books Anderson nevertheless presents a new Bradford, one whose text carefully positioned itself within a complex web of rhetorical and textual practices, audiences, and situations. Although he draws on scholarship that will be familiar to readers of Libraries & Culture (e.g.,…

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