The English literatures of America, 1500-1800

Author(s)

• Jehlen, Myra
• Warner, Michael

Bibliographic Information

The English literatures of America, 1500-1800

edited by Myra Jehlen and Michael Warner

Routledge, 1997

Note

Includes index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

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 ofAmerica allows a new way to understand colonial literature both in the United States and abroad.

Table of Contents

• The English Literatures of America, 1500-1800
• 1: The Globe at 1500
• 1: The Expansion of Europe
• 2: The Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries
• 2: Learning to Say "America" in English
• 3: The English Diaspora
• 4: Seventeenth-Century Anglo-America: Virginia and the Indies
• 5: Seventeenth-Century Anglo-America: New England and Canada
• 6: Seventeenth-Century Anglo-America: The Trials of Puritanism
• 7: Science in America: The Seventeenth Century
• 8: Poetry: The Seventeenth Century
• 3: The Eighteenth Century
• 9: Religion in the Enlightenment
• 10: Histories
• 11: The Literature of Politics
• 12: Science in America: The Eighteenth Century
• 13: Belles Lettres
• 14: Poetry: The Eighteenth Century

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Details

• NCID: BA29730279
• ISBN:
  • 0415908736
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: New York ; London
• Pages/Volumes: xxiii, 1118 p.
• Size: 23 cm
• Classification:
  • DC20 : 810.9973
  • NDC8 : 930.29
  • DC21 : 970
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : American literature -- History and criticism
  • LCSH : American literature -- English influences -- History and criticism
  • LCSH : American literature -- Minority authors -- History and criticism
  • LCSH : English literature -- American influences -- History and criticism
  • LCSH : American literature -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775
  • LCSH : English literature -- Early modern, 500-1700
  • LCSH : English literature -- 18th century
  • LCSH : United States -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 -- Sources
  • LCSH : America -- Discovery and exploration -- Sources