Samuel Danforth's Errand into the Wilderness and the Discourse of Arrival in Early American Culture

Stephen H. Browne

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Samuel Danforth's Errand into the Wilderness and the Discourse of Arrival in Early American Culture

Stephen H. Browne

Communication Arts and Sciences

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This essay explores the way in the experience of arrival is constructed through the resources of language and community. Samuel Danforth's sermon “Errand into the Wilderness” provides an exceptionally clear case study of this process. By examining its structural and thematic features, we can identify the rhetorical action by which arrival is made meaningful as a force in the shaping of cultural identity.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	91-101
Number of pages	11
Journal	Communication Quarterly
Volume	40
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1080/01463379209369825
State	Published - Mar 1 1992

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