The English Literatures of America, 1500-1800Myra Jehlen, Michael Warner Psychology Press, 1997 - 1118 Seiten "The book begins with the first colonization of the Americas and stretches beyond the Revolution to the early national period. Placing the literary culture of the settlements in the context of other colonies as well as the growing cosmopolitan culture of the British empire itself, this lively reader contains numerous dialogues across the English Atlantic world. While historically sound and thorough, this anthology responds to current interests, for example, the global context of national cultures; the relation between colonial histories and cosmopolitan culture; or the omissions and margins of the literary record. The English Literatures of America offers a wide range of voices, including women writers on both sides of the ocean, early English-language texts of Native Americans, and writings of Africans both slave and free, in London as well as in the American colonies. It includes texts from elite as well as common cultures, Puritans in New England as well as Puritans in the West Indies, regional cultures in the colonial South as well as the grand cosmopolitan culture of imperial London. The organization of The English Literatures of America involves a thorough rethinking of colonial American literature while retaining the standards of the American canon. American literatures are for the first time presented in an international and colonial context. Not only do new texts appear; familiar ones have new significance. The Puritans can be read as they understood themselves, i.e., as New English. Many texts are collected here for the first time in any anthology. Others are recognized masterpieces of the canon--both British and American--that for the first time can be read in their Atlantic context. Here, for example, are Francis Bacon, Andrew Marvell, Alexander Pope and Adam Smith, as well as Bradstreet, Wheatley, Edwards and Franklin. Despite the unparalleled scope of this anthology, many texts are given complete rather than in snippets. These include Hariot's Brief and True Report of the New Found Land of Virginia, Aphra Behn's play The Widow Ranter, numerous essays by Benjamin Franklin and others. By emphasizing the culture of empire and by representing a transatlantic dialogue, The English Literatures of America allows a new way to understand colonial literature both in the United States and abroad."--Publisher's description. |
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The Expansion of Europe | 3 |
from History of Florence 1525 | 10 |
Amerigo Vespucci | 17 |
letter to the King and Queen of Castile 1499 | 29 |
Learning to Say America in English | 39 |
John Rastell | 47 |
Michel de Montaigne | 95 |
The English Diaspora | 101 |
Jonathan Edwards | 628 |
Thomas Paine | 673 |
Histories | 683 |
Daniel Defoe | 689 |
William Byrd II | 699 |
Dr Alexander Hamilton | 708 |
Nathaniel Ames II | 716 |
Peter Oliver | 771 |
John Smith et | 108 |
John Smith | 116 |
Anonymous | 128 |
John Cotton | 160 |
Thomas Morton | 168 |
William Bradford | 175 |
George | 194 |
Richard Ligon | 201 |
Anonymous | 222 |
Aphra Behn | 233 |
John Esquemeling | 292 |
Ned Edward Ward | 299 |
New England and Canada | 305 |
Thomas Shepard | 316 |
Ned Ward | 400 |
Nicholas Noyes | 408 |
Sarah Knight | 415 |
The Trials of Puritanism | 429 |
the Keayne controversy | 443 |
Richard Saltonstall | 457 |
Deodat Lawson | 475 |
Robert Calef | 482 |
The Seventeenth Century | 489 |
Increase Mather | 504 |
three selections about smallpox | 521 |
The Seventeenth Century | 527 |
George Herbert | 535 |
New Englands Annoyances c 1642 | 538 |
Anne Bradstreet | 548 |
Religion in the Enlightenment | 597 |
Olaudah Equiano Gustavus Vassa | 792 |
Stephen Burroughs | 801 |
The Literature of Politics | 813 |
John Saffin | 821 |
Edmund Burke | 850 |
Thomas Jefferson | 858 |
Thomas Paine | 865 |
Judith Sargent Murray | 874 |
Ottobah Cugoano John Stuart | 880 |
Benjamin Franklin | 891 |
The Eighteenth Century | 901 |
Jonathan Edwards | 907 |
Benjamin Franklin | 915 |
William Bartram | 939 |
Belles Lettres | 949 |
Susannah Haswell Rowson | 989 |
Fisher Ames | 1000 |
The Eighteenth Century | 1011 |
Benjamin Tompson | 1032 |
three versions of Psalm 137 | 1040 |
Richard Lewis | 1044 |
George Berkeley Bishop of Cloyne | 1060 |
Mary Nelson | 1073 |
The Rector of St Johns Nevis | 1088 |
Joel Barlow | 1094 |
Philip Freneau | 1104 |
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