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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... rivers intersect it , and it also contains many very lofty mountains . All these islands are very beautiful , and distinguished by a diversity of scenery ; they are filled with a great variety of trees of immense height , and which I ...
... rivers intersect it , and it also contains many very lofty mountains . All these islands are very beautiful , and distinguished by a diversity of scenery ; they are filled with a great variety of trees of immense height , and which I ...
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... river , he deemed himself lucky who was able to carry us on his back , and when we reached the sea , our boats ... rivers , animals , few resemble ours , excepting lions , panthers , stages , pigs , goats , and deer , and even these have ...
... river , he deemed himself lucky who was able to carry us on his back , and when we reached the sea , our boats ... rivers , animals , few resemble ours , excepting lions , panthers , stages , pigs , goats , and deer , and even these have ...
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... river . Going thither , when he came to the mouth of the river , the captaine of Panama knew not which way to take , because there were three partitions in the river to go up in . And being determined to go up the greatest of the three ...
... river . Going thither , when he came to the mouth of the river , the captaine of Panama knew not which way to take , because there were three partitions in the river to go up in . And being determined to go up the greatest of the three ...
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... river , we passed the most beautiful country that ever mine eyes had beheld : and whereas all that we had seen before was nothing but woods , prickles , bushes , and thorns , here we beheld plains of twenty miles in length , the grasses ...
... river , we passed the most beautiful country that ever mine eyes had beheld : and whereas all that we had seen before was nothing but woods , prickles , bushes , and thorns , here we beheld plains of twenty miles in length , the grasses ...
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... rivers Arromaia and Caora , and on that branch which is called Caora are a nation of people , whose heads appear not above their shoulders , which though it may be thought a mere fable , yet for mine own part I am resolved it is true ...
... rivers Arromaia and Caora , and on that branch which is called Caora are a nation of people , whose heads appear not above their shoulders , which though it may be thought a mere fable , yet for mine own part I am resolved it is true ...
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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