Damnable Heresy: William Pynchon, the Indians, and the First Book Banned (and Burned) in Boston

David M Powers

Damnable Heresy: William Pynchon, the Indians, and the First Book Banned (and Burned) in Boston
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Wipf & Stock Publishers
Country
United States
Published
19 January 2015
Pages
268
ISBN
9781625648709

Damnable Heresy: William Pynchon, the Indians, and the First Book Banned (and Burned) in Boston

David M Powers

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Misunderstandings between races, hostilities between cultures. Anxiety from living in a time of war in one’s own land. Being accused of profiteering when food was scarce. Unruly residents in a remote frontier community. Charged with speaking the unspeakable and publishing the unprintable. All of this can be found in the life of one man–William Pynchon, the Puritan entrepreneur and founder of Springfield, Massachusetts, in 1636. Two things in particular stand out in Pynchon’s pioneering life: he enjoyed extraordinary and uniquely positive relationships with Native peoples, and he wrote the first book banned–and burned–in Boston. Now for the first time, this book provides a comprehensive account of Pynchon’s story, beginning in England, through his New England adventures, to his return home. Discover the fabric of his times and the roles Pynchon played in the Puritan venture in Old England and New England.

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