The English Literatures of America: 1500-1800

by Myra Jehlen (Editor), Michael Warner (Editor)

Overview

The English Literatures of America redefines colonial American literatures, sweeping from Newfoundland and Nova Scotia to the West Indies and Guiana. The book begins with the first colonization of the Americas and stretches beyond the Revolution to the early national period. Many texts are collected here for the first time; others are recognized masterpieces of the canon—both British and American—that can now be read in their Atlantic context. By emphasizing the culture of empire and by representing a transatlantic dialogue, The English Literatures of America allows a new way to understand colonial literature both in the United States and abroad.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780415919036
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	12/03/1996
Pages:	1142
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

Myra Jehlen, Michael Warner

Table of Contents

The English Literatures of America, 1500–1800; 1: The Globe at 1500; 1: The Expansion of Europe; 2: The Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries; 2: Learning to Say “America” in English; 3: The English Diaspora; 4: Seventeenth-Century Anglo-America: Virginia and the Indies; 5: Seventeenth-Century Anglo-America: New England and Canada; 6: Seventeenth-Century Anglo-America: The Trials of Puritanism; 7: Science in America: The Seventeenth Century; 8: Poetry: The Seventeenth Century; 3: The Eighteenth Century; 9: Religion in the Enlightenment; 10: Histories; 11: The Literature of Politics; 12: Science in America: The Eighteenth Century; 13: Belles Lettres; 14: Poetry: The Eighteenth Century

Editorial Reviews

"Recommended without reservation, this text will make a welcome addition to anyone's library." — ARIEL
"The English Literatures of America, 1500-1800 offer(s) exciting maps to repressed regions of knowledge." — American Literature
"...most striking about ELA is the absence of any overt, framing geography after the initial schema summarized above." — Ed White and Micahel J. Dexler, Colonial Studies

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