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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Page 42
... unto the kyng iii men takyn In the Newe Found Ile land , that beffore I spak of In Wylliam Purchas tyme beyng mayer , These were clothid In beastis skynnys and ete Rawe Flesh and spak such spech that noo man cowde undyrstand theym , and ...
... unto the kyng iii men takyn In the Newe Found Ile land , that beffore I spak of In Wylliam Purchas tyme beyng mayer , These were clothid In beastis skynnys and ete Rawe Flesh and spak such spech that noo man cowde undyrstand theym , and ...
Page 50
... unto the same then are the Spaniards ( as within 25 days sailing and less ) —how much , I say , shall this sound unto our reproach and inexcus- able slothfulness and negligence both before god and the world , that so large domin- ions ...
... unto the same then are the Spaniards ( as within 25 days sailing and less ) —how much , I say , shall this sound unto our reproach and inexcus- able slothfulness and negligence both before god and the world , that so large domin- ions ...
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... unto Christian civility by the English nation . For not long after Christopher Columbus had discovered the Islands ... unto the Spanish nation which they might not exceed - as by their own gestes23 recorded may be aptly gathered . The ...
... unto Christian civility by the English nation . For not long after Christopher Columbus had discovered the Islands ... unto the Spanish nation which they might not exceed - as by their own gestes23 recorded may be aptly gathered . The ...
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... unto our Country , that through this occasion , not only a great number of men which do now live idly at home , and are burdenous , chargeable and unprofitable to this Realm , shall hereby be set to work . But also children of 12 or 14 ...
... unto our Country , that through this occasion , not only a great number of men which do now live idly at home , and are burdenous , chargeable and unprofitable to this Realm , shall hereby be set to work . But also children of 12 or 14 ...
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... unto you , as of others by reason of their diversitie , I will first open the cause33 in a few words , where- fore they are so different , referring my selfe to your favourable constructions , and to be adjudged of , as by good ...
... unto you , as of others by reason of their diversitie , I will first open the cause33 in a few words , where- fore they are so different , referring my selfe to your favourable constructions , and to be adjudged of , as by good ...
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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