| Description |
1 online resource (xv, 636 pages) |
| Contents |
Literature of exploration / E. Thomson Shields Jr. -- Captain John Smith / Steven Olsen-Smith -- Promotion literature / Karen Schramm -- Puritan historians and historiography / Naoki Onishi -- New England poetry / Ronald A. Bosco and Jillmarie Murphy -- Captivity literature / Lorrayne Carroll -- Jonathan Edwards and the Great Awakening / Thomas S. Kidd -- Augustan American verse / Chris Beyers -- Picaresque travel narratives / Daniel Royot -- Dr. Alexander Hamilton / Kevin J. Hayes -- Indian voices in early American literature / Joshua David Bellin -- Scientific discourse / Susan Scott Parrish -- Newspapers and magazines / Christine A. Modey -- Print and manuscript culture / Carla Mulford -- Early American libraries / Sarah Fatherly -- Diaries / Kevin J. Berland -- Early American autobiography / Susan Clair Imbarrato -- Early American slave narratives / April Langley -- Benjamin Franklin / Kevin J. Hayes -- Early American drama / Jason Shaffer -- Literature of politics / Frank Shuffelton -- Revolutionary verse / Colin Wells -- Beginnings of the American novel / Melissa J. Homestead -- Crèvecoeur's Letters from an American Farmer / David J. Carlson -- History as literature / Ed White -- Place of natural history in early American literature / Kevin J. Hayes |
| Summary |
Organized primarily in terms of genre, this handbook includes 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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
American literature -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 -- History and criticism
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American literature -- Revolutionary period, 1775-1783 -- History and criticism
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American literature -- Colonial period
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American literature -- Revolutionary period (United States)
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Intellectual life
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Bellettrie.
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Amerikaans.
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Handboeken (vorm)
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| SUBJECT |
United States -- Intellectual life -- 18th century.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140364
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| Subject |
United States
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Hayes, Kevin J.
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| ISBN |
9780199940301 |
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0199940304 |
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