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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... better'd by the Multitude of Inhabitants ; the Earth being purifi'd by their Tillage , and the Air by their Fires , which Nature alone could never have effected . Of this Venice is an Instance sufficient ; for tho ' seated in a sickly ...
... better'd by the Multitude of Inhabitants ; the Earth being purifi'd by their Tillage , and the Air by their Fires , which Nature alone could never have effected . Of this Venice is an Instance sufficient ; for tho ' seated in a sickly ...
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... better than the men , for we have many times found and seen them swimming two leagues out at sea without any thing to rest upon . Their arms are bows and arrows very well made , save that they have no iron nor any other kind of hard ...
... better than the men , for we have many times found and seen them swimming two leagues out at sea without any thing to rest upon . Their arms are bows and arrows very well made , save that they have no iron nor any other kind of hard ...
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... better searched by others , and found to be as we have said before . The chief city in the southwest parts of these regions , is called Temixtecan , or Mexico , under the circle called the Tropic of Cancer , and strongly defended by the ...
... better searched by others , and found to be as we have said before . The chief city in the southwest parts of these regions , is called Temixtecan , or Mexico , under the circle called the Tropic of Cancer , and strongly defended by the ...
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... better sort . For who knoweth not , how by the long peace , happy health , and blessed plentifulness , wherewith God hath endowed this Realm , that the people is so mightily increased , as a great number being brought up , during their ...
... better sort . For who knoweth not , how by the long peace , happy health , and blessed plentifulness , wherewith God hath endowed this Realm , that the people is so mightily increased , as a great number being brought up , during their ...
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... better : the blades are about two foot in length , and halfe an inch broad . The like groweth in Persia , which is in the selfe same climate as Virginia , of which very many of the Silke works that come from thence into Europe are made ...
... better : the blades are about two foot in length , and halfe an inch broad . The like groweth in Persia , which is in the selfe same climate as Virginia , of which very many of the Silke works that come from thence into Europe are made ...
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