The English Literatures of America: 1500-1800Myra Jehlen, Michael Warner Routledge, 2013 M12 19 - 1142 pages The English Literatures of America redefines colonial American literatures, sweeping from Newfoundland and Nova Scotia to the West Indies and Guiana. The book begins with the first colonization of the Americas and stretches beyond the Revolution to the early national period. Many texts are collected here for the first time; others are recognized masterpieces of the canon--both British and American--that can now be read in their Atlantic context. 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. |
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... Captain , nor do they go in any ordered array , for every one is lord of himself . And the cause of their wars is not for lust of dominion , nor of extending their frontiers , nor for inordinate covetousness , but for some ancient ...
... Captain , nor do they go in any ordered array , for every one is lord of himself . And the cause of their wars is not for lust of dominion , nor of extending their frontiers , nor for inordinate covetousness , but for some ancient ...
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... captain and his company , and we came to blows with them . And after a long battle in which many of them were slain , we put them to flight , and pursued them to a village , having made about 250 of them captives , and we burnt the ...
... captain and his company , and we came to blows with them . And after a long battle in which many of them were slain , we put them to flight , and pursued them to a village , having made about 250 of them captives , and we burnt the ...
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... captains , we learn that they did reach and discover India and other kingdoms and lordships bordering upon it ; that they entered and navigated its sea , finding large cities , large edifices and rivers , and great populations , among ...
... captains , we learn that they did reach and discover India and other kingdoms and lordships bordering upon it ; that they entered and navigated its sea , finding large cities , large edifices and rivers , and great populations , among ...
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... captains assembled at once , as if the hour had been determined in advance . They all carried their spears and shields . Then the battle began . The Aztecs attacked with javelins and arrows , even with the light spears that are used for ...
... captains assembled at once , as if the hour had been determined in advance . They all carried their spears and shields . Then the battle began . The Aztecs attacked with javelins and arrows , even with the light spears that are used for ...
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... Captain - General ? Ah , it is Dona Isabel , my little niece ! Ah , it is true : the kings are prisoners now ! " You will be a slave and belong to another : the collar will be fashioned in Coyoacan , where the quetzal feathers will be ...
... Captain - General ? Ah , it is Dona Isabel , my little niece ! Ah , it is true : the kings are prisoners now ! " You will be a slave and belong to another : the collar will be fashioned in Coyoacan , where the quetzal feathers will be ...
Contents
of the Will 1754 | 628 |
Thomas Paine | 673 |
Histories | 683 |
Daniel Defoe | 689 |
Dr Alexander Hamilton | 708 |
Nathaniel Ames II | 716 |
Peter Oliver | 771 |
Stephen Burroughs | 801 |
108 | |
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 |
Sarah Knight | 415 |
The Trials of Puritanism | 429 |
the Keayne controversy | 443 |
Richard Saltonstall | 457 |
Deodat Lawson | 475 |
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 |
The Literature of Politics | 813 |
Edmund Burke | 850 |
Notes on the State of Virginia Query 19 1781 | 863 |
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 |
Thomas Jefferson | 971 |
Susannah Haswell Rowson | 989 |
Fisher Ames | 1000 |
The Eighteenth Century | 1011 |
Benjamin Tompson | 1032 |
three versions of Psalm 137 | 1040 |
Anonymous | 1048 |
John Dyer | 1061 |
Phillis Wheatley | 1076 |
The Rector of St Johns Nevis | 1088 |
Joel Barlow | 1094 |
Philip Freneau | 1104 |
INDEX | 1113 |
954 | 1117 |
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America amongst Antinomians Bacon Barbados began Benjamin Franklin better body brought called Captain Captain Morgan Christ Christian church colonies Cotton Mather Country DAREING death desire devil doth drink DULLMAN earth enemy England English Father fear fire FRIENDLY friends gave give Goodwife Governor hair hand hath HAZARD head heard heart heaven Honour Increase Mather Indians inhabitants Island John John Winthrop killed kind King labour land laws liberty live Lord Madam master means mercy mind nation nature never night Olaudah Equiano papoose persons Plantation pleasure Porto Bello Powhatan Praying Indian Puritan RANTER reason religion river shee shewed ships slavery slaves soon soul Spain spirit sweet thee things thou thought TIMOROUS told took trade unto Virginia voyage WELLMAN West Indies WHIFF WHIMSEY wigwam woman women