The Oxford handbook of early American literature
The Oxford Handbook of Early American Literature is a major reference work that provides a 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
Criticism, interpretation, etc
xv, 636 pages ; 26 cm.
9780195187274, 019518727X
132584511
Notes on the Contributors ; Introduction ; Part I Exploration and Promotion ; 1 The Literature of Exploration - E. Thomson Shields, Jr. ; 2 Captain John Smith - Steven Olsen-Smith ; 3 Promotion Literature - Karen Schramm ; Part II Devotional Literature ; 4 Puritan Historians and Historiography - Naoki Onishi ; 5 New England Poetry - Ronald Bosco and Jillmarie Murphy ; 6 Captivity Literature - Lorrayne Carroll ; 7 Jonathan Edwards and The Great Awakening - Thomas S. Kidd ; Part III The Augustan Age in America ; 8 Augustan American Verse - Chris Beyers ; 9 Picaresque Travel Narratives -Daniel Royot ; 10 Dr. Alexander Hamilton - Kevin J. Hayes ; 11 Indian Voices in Early American Literature - Joshua David Bellin ; 12 Scientific Discourse - Susan Scott Parrish ; Part IV Contexts of Reading ; 13 Newspapers and Magazines - Christine Modey ; 14 Print and Manuscript Culture - Carla Mulford ; 15 Early American Libraries - Sarah Fatherly ; Part V Expressions of Individuality ; 16 Diaries - Kevin Berland ; 17 Early American Autobiography - Susan Clair Imbarrato ; 18 Early American Slave Narratives - April Langley ; 19 Benjamin Franklin - Kevin J. Hayes ; Part VI The Revolutionary Era ; 20 Early American Drama - Jason Shaffer ; 21 The Literature of Politics - Frank Shuffelton ; 22 Revolutionary Verse - Colin Wells ; Part VII Late Eighteenth-Century Prose ; 23 The Beginnings of the American Novel - Melissa J. Homestead ; 24 Crevecoeurs Letters from an American Farmer - David J. Carlson ; 25 History as Literature - Ed White ; 26 The Place of Natural History in Early American Literature - Kevin J. Hayes
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