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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... pleasure . They should be read with care . Some texts articulate ideologies or relations of power that strike modern ... pleasures of language , rhetoric , narrative , and form do not evaporate wherever power appears . The selections ...
... pleasure . They should be read with care . Some texts articulate ideologies or relations of power that strike modern ... pleasures of language , rhetoric , narrative , and form do not evaporate wherever power appears . The selections ...
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... pleasure to learn that I have brought my undertaking to a successful termination , I have decided upon writing you this letter to acquaint you with all the events which have occurred in my voyage , and the discoveries which have ...
... pleasure to learn that I have brought my undertaking to a successful termination , I have decided upon writing you this letter to acquaint you with all the events which have occurred in my voyage , and the discoveries which have ...
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... pleasure thereof , and that herein he hoped to do you service . Wherefore I set me to do it : because I am assured that your Magnificence holds me in the number of your servants , remembering that in the time of our youth I was your ...
... pleasure thereof , and that herein he hoped to do you service . Wherefore I set me to do it : because I am assured that your Magnificence holds me in the number of your servants , remembering that in the time of our youth I was your ...
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... pleasure of announcing the major victory of Vasco da Gama who in 1498 temporarily outdid the discovery of the New World by succeeding where Columbus had failed , reaching the East by an ocean route . M ost high and excellent Prince and ...
... pleasure of announcing the major victory of Vasco da Gama who in 1498 temporarily outdid the discovery of the New World by succeeding where Columbus had failed , reaching the East by an ocean route . M ost high and excellent Prince and ...
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... that we could make men live or die at our pleasure . 9. furniture : equipment . 10. demanded : asked . 11. advisedly : carefully . 12. lively : living . 13. choler : anger . [ THE ENGLISH TRY MATCHMAKING ] Our men marched up 56 George Best.
... that we could make men live or die at our pleasure . 9. furniture : equipment . 10. demanded : asked . 11. advisedly : carefully . 12. lively : living . 13. choler : anger . [ THE ENGLISH TRY MATCHMAKING ] Our men marched up 56 George Best.
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 |
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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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Common terms and phrases
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