The Oxford Handbook of Early American LiteratureKevin J. Hayes Oxford University Press, 06.02.2008 - 656 Seiten The Oxford Handbook of Early American Literature is a major new reference work that provides the best single-volume source of original scholarship on early American literature. Comprised of twenty-seven chapters written by experts in their fields, this work presents an authoritative, in-depth, and up-to-date assessment of a crucial area within literary studies. Organized primarily in terms of genre, the chapters include original research on key concepts, as well as analysis of interesting texts from throughout colonial America. Separate chapters are devoted to literary genres of great importance at the time of their composition that have been neglected in recent decades, such as histories, promotion literature, and scientific writing. New interpretations are offered on the works of Benjamin Franklin, Jonathan Edwards and Dr. Alexander Hamilton while lesser known figures are also brought to light. Newly vital areas like print culture and natural history are given full treatment. As with other Oxford Handbooks, the contributors cover the field in a comprehensive yet accessible way that is suitable for those wishing to gain a good working knowledge of an area of study and where it's headed. |
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... Byrd II of Westover (2001) and William Beckford and the New Millennium (2004). His essays have appeared in Dalhousie Review, Journal of the History of Ideas, and Philological Quarterly, among many other scholarly journals. Chris Beyers ...
... Byrd II of Westover (2001) and William Beckford and the New Millennium (2004). His essays have appeared in Dalhousie Review, Journal of the History of Ideas, and Philological Quarterly, among many other scholarly journals. Chris Beyers ...
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... Byrd of Westover (1997), The Library of John Montgomerie, Colonial Governor of New York and New Jersey (2000),An American Cycling Odyssey, 1887 (2002), The Library of Benjamin Franklin (2006, with Edwin Wolf 2nd), and A Peep into Korea ...
... Byrd of Westover (1997), The Library of John Montgomerie, Colonial Governor of New York and New Jersey (2000),An American Cycling Odyssey, 1887 (2002), The Library of Benjamin Franklin (2006, with Edwin Wolf 2nd), and A Peep into Korea ...
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... Byrd, Daniel Denton, Philip Vickers Fithian, Sarah Kemble Knight, Mary Rowlandson, Patrick Tailfer, and John Woolman. “Outwardly delightful and intellectually stimulating,” one reviewer called it. “To those who are doubtful of the ...
... Byrd, Daniel Denton, Philip Vickers Fithian, Sarah Kemble Knight, Mary Rowlandson, Patrick Tailfer, and John Woolman. “Outwardly delightful and intellectually stimulating,” one reviewer called it. “To those who are doubtful of the ...
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... Byrd, Dr. Alexander Hamilton, and Richard Lewis. No longer was early American literature just Puritan histories and sermons; it now included promotion literature, picaresque travel narratives, and bawdy Hudibrastic verse. Carla Mulford ...
... Byrd, Dr. Alexander Hamilton, and Richard Lewis. No longer was early American literature just Puritan histories and sermons; it now included promotion literature, picaresque travel narratives, and bawdy Hudibrastic verse. Carla Mulford ...
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Inhalt
3 | |
21 | |
Devotional Literature | 91 |
The Augustan Age in America | 187 |
Contexts of Reading | 299 |
Expressions of Individuality | 369 |
The Revolutionary Era | 451 |
Late EighteenthCentury Prose | 525 |
Index | 613 |
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