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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... never again , at least before the twentieth century , to be subjected to prolonged hostile scrutiny from within the mainstreams of British opinion . " If the moment for challenging the empire had passed for the British , others took ...
... never again , at least before the twentieth century , to be subjected to prolonged hostile scrutiny from within the mainstreams of British opinion . " If the moment for challenging the empire had passed for the British , others took ...
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... never did we see any dispute among them . In their conversation they appear simple , and are very cunning and acute in that which concerns them . They speak little and in a low tone , they use the same articulations as we , since they ...
... never did we see any dispute among them . In their conversation they appear simple , and are very cunning and acute in that which concerns them . They speak little and in a low tone , they use the same articulations as we , since they ...
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... never brought forth children . They shewed themselves very desirous of having connexion with us Christians . Amongst those people we did not learn that they had any law , nor can they be called Moors nor Jews , and they are worse than ...
... never brought forth children . They shewed themselves very desirous of having connexion with us Christians . Amongst those people we did not learn that they had any law , nor can they be called Moors nor Jews , and they are worse than ...
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... never seen before . the people of this lande have no kynge nor lorde nor theyr god . But all thinges is comune ... the men and women have on theyr heed necke Armes Knees and fete all with feders bounden for their bewtynes and fayrenes ...
... never seen before . the people of this lande have no kynge nor lorde nor theyr god . But all thinges is comune ... the men and women have on theyr heed necke Armes Knees and fete all with feders bounden for their bewtynes and fayrenes ...
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... never out of the Island where we were seated , or not farre , or at the least wise in few places els , during the time of our abode in the country : or of that many , that after gold & silver was not so soone found , as it was by them ...
... never out of the Island where we were seated , or not farre , or at the least wise in few places els , during the time of our abode in the country : or of that many , that after gold & silver was not so soone found , as it was by them ...
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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