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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... 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 intellectual stimulus to ...
... 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 intellectual stimulus to ...
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... Philips and Job Hortop—tell of capture by the Spanish, the death of almost all the others, and ultimate escape. Ingram's story is different. He tells of traveling with surviving companions from the Gulf of Mexico to Cape Breton Island ...
... Philips and Job Hortop—tell of capture by the Spanish, the death of almost all the others, and ultimate escape. Ingram's story is different. He tells of traveling with surviving companions from the Gulf of Mexico to Cape Breton Island ...
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... Philip Sidney in Divers Voyages, Hakluyt “the Portingales time to be out of date, and that the nakedness of the Spaniards, and their long hidden secretes are nowe at length espied,” so “we of England may share and part stakes (if wee ...
... Philip Sidney in Divers Voyages, Hakluyt “the Portingales time to be out of date, and that the nakedness of the Spaniards, and their long hidden secretes are nowe at length espied,” so “we of England may share and part stakes (if wee ...
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... Philip Amadas to Roanoke Island on behalf of Walter Raleigh, the first of the Roanoke colonization voyages that occurred between 1584 and 1590. Written some months after the expedition's return in the fall of 1584, the report did not ...
... Philip Amadas to Roanoke Island on behalf of Walter Raleigh, the first of the Roanoke colonization voyages that occurred between 1584 and 1590. Written some months after the expedition's return in the fall of 1584, the report did not ...
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Inhalt
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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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