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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... contexts. In her study, Homestead, for example, shows that the early American novel evolved within the cultural dynamic of ocean crossing. Recent developments in the field of cultural studies are also useful to the study of literature ...
... contexts. In her study, Homestead, for example, shows that the early American novel evolved within the cultural dynamic of ocean crossing. Recent developments in the field of cultural studies are also useful to the study of literature ...
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... Contexts and Satire of Franklin's Autobiography. Poe Studies 15: 29–37. ———. 1985. “New England's Annoyances”: America's First Folk Song. Newark: University of Delaware Press. Melville, Herman. 1987. The Piazza Tales and Other Prose ...
... Contexts and Satire of Franklin's Autobiography. Poe Studies 15: 29–37. ———. 1985. “New England's Annoyances”: America's First Folk Song. Newark: University of Delaware Press. Melville, Herman. 1987. The Piazza Tales and Other Prose ...
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... context, we are unsurprised to read that Ingram “has confessed that there is great aboundaunce of gold sylver and pearle,” telling his interrogators as much what they want to hear as he may be (or may not be) telling what he actually ...
... context, we are unsurprised to read that Ingram “has confessed that there is great aboundaunce of gold sylver and pearle,” telling his interrogators as much what they want to hear as he may be (or may not be) telling what he actually ...
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... context for this explanation differed from writer to writer, so did the form that the explanation took. No English exploration led to the successful establishment of a permanent English colony in the Americas during all three periods ...
... context for this explanation differed from writer to writer, so did the form that the explanation took. No English exploration led to the successful establishment of a permanent English colony in the Americas during all three periods ...
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... context (rhetorical genres) or by emphasizing their aesthetic forms (aesthetic or formal genre), all works have both elements. Depending on the rhetorical situation of the writer, especially in relationship to the reader, works use ...
... context (rhetorical genres) or by emphasizing their aesthetic forms (aesthetic or formal genre), all works have both elements. Depending on the rhetorical situation of the writer, especially in relationship to the reader, works use ...
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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