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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... death the discoverer refused to believe he had discovered a new continent . There was method to this obstinacy : by clinging to the notion that the West Indies were just the western tip of the East Indies , Columbus could retain his ...
... death the discoverer refused to believe he had discovered a new continent . There was method to this obstinacy : by clinging to the notion that the West Indies were just the western tip of the East Indies , Columbus could retain his ...
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... for some ancient enmity which in by - gone times arose amongst them . And when asked why they made war , they knew not any other reason to give us than that they did so to avenge the death of their ancestors , 20 Amerigo Vespucci.
... for some ancient enmity which in by - gone times arose amongst them . And when asked why they made war , they knew not any other reason to give us than that they did so to avenge the death of their ancestors , 20 Amerigo Vespucci.
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... death of such his kinsman , and so are they stirred up by fellow - feeling . They have no judicial system , nor do they punish the ill - doer , nor does the father , nor the mother chastise the chil- dren , and marvellously seldom or ...
... death of such his kinsman , and so are they stirred up by fellow - feeling . They have no judicial system , nor do they punish the ill - doer , nor does the father , nor the mother chastise the chil- dren , and marvellously seldom or ...
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... death , his kinsmen carry him into a large forest , and attach one of those nets of theirs , in which they sleep , to two trees , and then put him in it , and dance around him for a whole day . And when the night comes on they place at ...
... death , his kinsmen carry him into a large forest , and attach one of those nets of theirs , in which they sleep , to two trees , and then put him in it , and dance around him for a whole day . And when the night comes on they place at ...
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... death and eat them , and when the dead are eaten then they flay the rest . And they are then eaten also , or otherwise they live longer times and many years more than other people , for they have costly spices and roots with which they ...
... death and eat them , and when the dead are eaten then they flay the rest . And they are then eaten also , or otherwise they live longer times and many years more than other people , for they have costly spices and roots with which they ...
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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