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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... desire of gain became a new incentive to activity , roused adventurers , and sent them forth upon long voyages in search of countries whose products or wants might increase that circulation which nourishes and gives vigour to commerce ...
... desire of gain became a new incentive to activity , roused adventurers , and sent them forth upon long voyages in search of countries whose products or wants might increase that circulation which nourishes and gives vigour to commerce ...
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... desire to be obliged to take them back to their country , and they were contented . And so we departed from those people , leaving them very friendly towards us , and having repaired our ships , and sailing for seven days out to sea ...
... desire to be obliged to take them back to their country , and they were contented . And so we departed from those people , leaving them very friendly towards us , and having repaired our ships , and sailing for seven days out to sea ...
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... desire he had to see and know the far countries of the world , he joined himself in company with Amerigo Vespucci , and in the last three of those four voyages , that are now in print and abroad in every man's hands , 1 he continued ...
... desire he had to see and know the far countries of the world , he joined himself in company with Amerigo Vespucci , and in the last three of those four voyages , that are now in print and abroad in every man's hands , 1 he continued ...
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... desire of us , and showing them once the means , how to provide the same , the labor thereof being so light , no doubt but in short time they will earnestly care to have the same in good quantity for us . . . . It is to bee assuredly ...
... desire of us , and showing them once the means , how to provide the same , the labor thereof being so light , no doubt but in short time they will earnestly care to have the same in good quantity for us . . . . It is to bee assuredly ...
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... desire.28 Such are the Spaniards , such are their fruits : fruits far worse than the fruits of Sodom . 11. Thomas Hariot 1588 Born at Oxford in 1560 , Thomas Hariot ( also Heriot or Harriot ) became a distin- guished mathematician , and ...
... desire.28 Such are the Spaniards , such are their fruits : fruits far worse than the fruits of Sodom . 11. Thomas Hariot 1588 Born at Oxford in 1560 , Thomas Hariot ( also Heriot or Harriot ) became a distin- guished mathematician , and ...
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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