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12016-08-21T08:16:05-07:00Will Fenton82bf9011a953584cd702d069a30cbdb6ef90650a720013image_header2017-01-19T14:04:06-08:00Will Fenton82bf9011a953584cd702d069a30cbdb6ef90650aIn the coming months, Digital Paxton will gain two additional kinds of paths: the first will highlight intertextuality, with regards to edition changes and exchanges between Paxton critics and apologists; the second, will present Keywords through which to contextualize those debates.
While we welcome keywords related to "Materiality," "Hospitality," "Settlement," "Masculinity," and "Race," we will allow Paxton historians and literary scholars to determine the collection of Keyword paths.
In our first keyword essay, James P. Myers, Jr. considers the role of anonymity in pamphleteering using Thomas Barton's "The Conduct of the Paxton Men, Impartially Represented" as a kind of case study.
Next, Nicole Eustace examines the condolence ceremonies against which the Paxtons and their allies inveighed, revealing the culturally incommensurate understandings of mourning that Euro-American and Native Americans brought to rituals of grief.
Our third keyword, authored by Scott Paul Gordon, posits that Paxton Boys' excursions to Lancaster served as a public rebuke of local elites, intended to shame authorities into fulfilling their roles as benevolent patriarchs.
Judith Ridner provides our fourth essay, which explores how material culture surfaces in the pamphlets of Paxton critics and apologists and what symbols like looking-glasses and blindfolds represented for colonial readers.
12016-10-08T09:01:07-07:00Will Fenton82bf9011a953584cd702d069a30cbdb6ef90650aAnonymity12James P. Myers, Jr.image_header2016-10-12T05:52:32-07:00Will Fenton82bf9011a953584cd702d069a30cbdb6ef90650a
1media/The Indians giving a talk - cropped.jpg2017-01-03T08:49:40-08:00Will Fenton82bf9011a953584cd702d069a30cbdb6ef90650aCondolence8Nicole Eustaceimage_header2017-01-19T13:50:57-08:00Will Fenton82bf9011a953584cd702d069a30cbdb6ef90650a
12016-10-16T11:29:58-07:00Will Fenton82bf9011a953584cd702d069a30cbdb6ef90650aElites6Scott Paul Gordonimage_header2016-10-16T13:11:50-07:00Will Fenton82bf9011a953584cd702d069a30cbdb6ef90650a
