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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... Indians quickly spread themselves over the deserted English Fields . " This , too , is colonial language , and not just because of the value scale - English good , Indian bad . At a time when English and Indians were at war over the ...
... Indians quickly spread themselves over the deserted English Fields . " This , too , is colonial language , and not just because of the value scale - English good , Indian bad . At a time when English and Indians were at war over the ...
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... Indians are defined by how they are not like Europeans and the European remains intact as the definition of the human norm . Letter addressed to the noble Lord Raphael Sanchez , Treasurer to their most invincible Majesties , Ferdinand ...
... Indians are defined by how they are not like Europeans and the European remains intact as the definition of the human norm . Letter addressed to the noble Lord Raphael Sanchez , Treasurer to their most invincible Majesties , Ferdinand ...
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... Indians would give whatever the seller required ; as , for instance , an ounce and a half or two ounces of gold , or thirty or forty pounds of cotton , with which commodity they were already acquainted . Thus they bartered , like idiots ...
... Indians would give whatever the seller required ; as , for instance , an ounce and a half or two ounces of gold , or thirty or forty pounds of cotton , with which commodity they were already acquainted . Thus they bartered , like idiots ...
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... Indians Anam , and its inhabitants are born with tails . These provinces extend to a hundred and fifty - three miles in length , as I have learnt from the Indians whom I have brought with me , and who are well acquainted with the ...
... Indians Anam , and its inhabitants are born with tails . These provinces extend to a hundred and fifty - three miles in length , as I have learnt from the Indians whom I have brought with me , and who are well acquainted with the ...
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... Indian rulers of the area were the Aztecs who , from the fourteenth to the fifteenth century , built an empire ... Indians ) ; and the final episode of the war , the capture of the Aztec king . [ THE OMENS ] T The first bad omen ...
... Indian rulers of the area were the Aztecs who , from the fourteenth to the fifteenth century , built an empire ... Indians ) ; and the final episode of the war , the capture of the Aztec king . [ THE OMENS ] T The first bad omen ...
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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