The English Literatures of America: 1500-1800

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Myra 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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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

John Smith et
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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