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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... hair long , sported a fur cap , glasses , a plain coat , and a walking stick . ( Many French observers believed this to be a Quaker costume . ) He was playing the American , a role he was inventing for the occasion . Olaudah Equiano ...
... hair long , sported a fur cap , glasses , a plain coat , and a walking stick . ( Many French observers believed this to be a Quaker costume . ) He was playing the American , a role he was inventing for the occasion . Olaudah Equiano ...
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... hair is smooth and straight : for they do not dwell where the rays of the sun strike most vividly , -and the sun has intense power there , the distance from the equinoctial line being , it appears , but six - and - twenty degrees . On ...
... hair is smooth and straight : for they do not dwell where the rays of the sun strike most vividly , -and the sun has intense power there , the distance from the equinoctial line being , it appears , but six - and - twenty degrees . On ...
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... hair long , like women , and make use of the bows and javelins of cane , with sharpened spear - points fixed on the thickest end , which I have before described , and therefore they are looked upon as ferocious , and regarded by the ...
... hair long , like women , and make use of the bows and javelins of cane , with sharpened spear - points fixed on the thickest end , which I have before described , and therefore they are looked upon as ferocious , and regarded by the ...
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... hair upon the body , except the hair of the head which is long and black , and especially in the women , whom it renders handsome . In aspect they are not very good - looking , because they have broad faces , so that they would seem ...
... hair upon the body , except the hair of the head which is long and black , and especially in the women , whom it renders handsome . In aspect they are not very good - looking , because they have broad faces , so that they would seem ...
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... hair to exhibit grief , whereby they made us suspicious , and we each betook ourselves to arms . And instantly the girls whom we had in the boats , threw themselves into the sea , and the men of the canoes drew away from us , and began ...
... hair to exhibit grief , whereby they made us suspicious , and we each betook ourselves to arms . And instantly the girls whom we had in the boats , threw themselves into the sea , and the men of the canoes drew away from us , and began ...
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