Early American writing

Author(s)

• Gunn, Giles B.

Bibliographic Information

Early American writing

edited and with an introduction by Giles Gunn

（Penguin classics）

Penguin Books, 1994

Description and Table of Contents

Description

Drawing materials from journals and diaries, political documents and religious sermons, prose and poetry, Giles Gunn's anthology provides a panoramic survey of early American life and literature-including voices black and white, male and female, Hispanic, French, and Native American. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust theseries to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-datetranslations by award-winning translators.

Table of Contents

• Prefiguartions - native American mythology, the literature of imagination and discovery
• the literature of settlement and colonization
• native American literature in the colonial period
• literature of the early republic.

by "Nielsen BookData"

• NCID: BA22755985
• ISBN:
  • 0140390871
• LCCN: 93022916
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: New York
• Pages/Volumes: xl, 629 p.
• Size: 20 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : PS531
  • DC20 : 810.8/003
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : American literature -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775
  • LCSH : United States -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 -- Sources
  • LCSH : America -- Discovery and exploration -- Literary collections
  • LCSH : Indians of North America -- Literary collections
  • LCSH : Great Britain -- Colonies -- Literary collections
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA00305646