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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... nation. For decades, elementary school history lessons and annual Thanksgiving Day rituals had reminded Americans of the importance of the Puritans to the development of American culture. While publicly acknowledging their cultural ...
... nation. For decades, elementary school history lessons and annual Thanksgiving Day rituals had reminded Americans of the importance of the Puritans to the development of American culture. While publicly acknowledging their cultural ...
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... nation, who wondered that those blessed countries, from the point of Florida Northward, were all this while ... nations—throughout the newly expanded and circumnavigated world. But in both editions, Hakluyt uses the same general layout ...
... nation, who wondered that those blessed countries, from the point of Florida Northward, were all this while ... nations—throughout the newly expanded and circumnavigated world. But in both editions, Hakluyt uses the same general layout ...
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... nation, besides the particular profite and credite which would redound to themselves the dealers therein; as I by the sequell of events to the shame of those that have avouched the contrary shall be manifest. (Hakluyt 1589,749) Hariot ...
... nation, besides the particular profite and credite which would redound to themselves the dealers therein; as I by the sequell of events to the shame of those that have avouched the contrary shall be manifest. (Hakluyt 1589,749) Hariot ...
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... Nation (being fully assured of the fruitfulness of the countrie) have hoped hereby to gaine some knowledge of the ... nations might misuse it to find and settle this fruitful land and, most worrisomely, to take away the Native Americans ...
... Nation (being fully assured of the fruitfulness of the countrie) have hoped hereby to gaine some knowledge of the ... nations might misuse it to find and settle this fruitful land and, most worrisomely, to take away the Native Americans ...
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... Nation, Made by Sea or over Land, to the Most Remote and Farthest Distant Quarters of the Earth at any Time within the Compasse of these 1500. Yeeres. London: George Bishop and Ralph Newberie. ———. 1598–1600. The Principal Navigations ...
... Nation, Made by Sea or over Land, to the Most Remote and Farthest Distant Quarters of the Earth at any Time within the Compasse of these 1500. Yeeres. London: George Bishop and Ralph Newberie. ———. 1598–1600. The Principal Navigations ...
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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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