| Description |
1 online resource (1143 pages) |
| Contents |
Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; GENERAL INTRODUCTION; ONE: THE GLOBE AT 1500; Chapter 1. The Expansion of Europe; 1. Marco Polo from The Travels o f Marco Polo, c. 1298; 2. Sir John Mandeville from The Travels of Sir John Mandeville, 1356; 3. Niccolo Machiavelli from History of Florence, 1525; 4. Christopher Columbus letter to the King and Queen of Castile (first voyage), 1493; 5. Amerigo Vespucci letter to Pier Soderini, 1504; 6. King Manuel I of Portugal letter to the King and Queen of Castile, 1499 |
|
7. Nahuatl accounts of the conquest of Mexico, 1528 and afterTWO: THE SIXTEENTH AND SEVENTEENTH CENTURIES; Chapter 2. Learning to Say "America" in English; 1. from The Great Chronicle of London, 1502; 2. the first printed account of America in English, 1511; 3. Sir Thomas More from Utopia, 1516; 4. John Rastell from A New Interlude and a Merry of the Nature of the Four Elements, 1519; 5. Richard Eden from translation of Peter Martyr, 1555; 6. John Sparke from The Voyage Made by Master John Hawkins, c. 1566; 7. Lopez Vaz an account of Francis Drake, before 1586 |
|
8. George Best from A True Discourse, 15789. four views on plantation; Richard Hakluyt the elder, 1578; Christopher Carleill, 1583; Edward Hayes, 1583; Sir George Peckham, 1583; 10. William Lightfoot from The Complaint of England, 1587; 11. Thomas Hariot A Briefe and True Report of the New Found Land of Virginia, 1588; 12. Richard Hakluyt the younger a 1536 case of English cannibalism, 1590; 13. Sir Walter Ralegh from The Discovery of the Large, Rich and Bewtiful Empire of Guiana, 1596; 14. Michel de Montaigne from "Of the Caniballes," 1580; 15. Michel de Montaigne from "Of Coaches" (1580) |
|
16. Francis Bacon "Of Plantations," 162517. Definition of "colony," from The Planter's Plea, 1630; Chapter 3. The English Diaspora; 1. William Strachey from A True Reportory of the Wrack and Redemption of Sir Thomas Gates, Knight, 1610; 2. John Smith et al. from A Map of Virginia, 1612; 3. John Smith from A Description of New England, 1616; 4. five letters from America; John Pory, 1619; Richard Frethorne, 1623; John Baldwin, 1623; George Calvert, 1629; Anonymous, 1631; 5. Edward Waterhouse A Declaration of the State of the Colony in Virginia, 1622 |
|
6. John Smith from The Generali Historie of Virginia, 16247. The Tragical Relation of the Virginia Assembly, 1624; 8. Francis Higginson journal of a voyage to New England, 1629; 9. John Winthrop from "A Modell of Christian Charity," 1630; 10. John Cotton from Gods Promise to His Plantations, 1630; 11. Sir Henry Colt journal of a voyage to the West Indies, 1631; 12. William Wood from New England's Prospect, 1634; 13. Thomas Morton from New English Canaan, 1634; 14. William Bradford another version of the maypole episode; 15. William Bradford from Of Plymouth Plantation, 1630-50 |
| Summary |
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 allow |
| Notes |
16. from Mourt's Relation, 1622 |
|
Print version record |
| Form |
Electronic book
|
| Author |
Warner, Michael
|
| ISBN |
9781317795414 |
|
1317795415 |
|
