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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... Discourse Susan Scott Parrish Part IV: Contexts of Reading 13. Newspapers and Magazines 301 Christine A. Modey 14. Print and Manuscript Culture 321 Carla Mulford 15. Early American Libraries 345 Sarah Fatherly Part V: Expressions of ...
... Discourse Susan Scott Parrish Part IV: Contexts of Reading 13. Newspapers and Magazines 301 Christine A. Modey 14. Print and Manuscript Culture 321 Carla Mulford 15. Early American Libraries 345 Sarah Fatherly Part V: Expressions of ...
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... discourse that he found it necessary to allude to it, if only to recognize it as an anachronism when applied to early American literature. Speaking of early colonial days, Tyler observed, “Undoubtedly literature for its own sake was not ...
... discourse that he found it necessary to allude to it, if only to recognize it as an anachronism when applied to early American literature. Speaking of early colonial days, Tyler observed, “Undoubtedly literature for its own sake was not ...
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... discourse, as well as in another chapter that examines two of the masterworks of early American literature, Thomas Jefferson's Notes on the State of Virginia and William Bartram's Travels. History writing receives two chapters, and ...
... discourse, as well as in another chapter that examines two of the masterworks of early American literature, Thomas Jefferson's Notes on the State of Virginia and William Bartram's Travels. History writing receives two chapters, and ...
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... discourse but on the action it is used to accomplish” (Miller 1984,151). What action these works of early American exploration wish to accomplish is to explain the New World to people in Europe who have not been there, who did not ...
... discourse but on the action it is used to accomplish” (Miller 1984,151). What action these works of early American exploration wish to accomplish is to explain the New World to people in Europe who have not been there, who did not ...
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... Discourse of a Discoverie for a New Passage to Cataia (1576), gained the right to explore and colonize parts of America not already settled by Christians. After a failed voyage in 1578, Gilbert took a second expedition to America in ...
... Discourse of a Discoverie for a New Passage to Cataia (1576), gained the right to explore and colonize parts of America not already settled by Christians. After a failed voyage in 1578, Gilbert took a second expedition to America in ...
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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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