The English Literatures Of America: 1500–1800

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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.

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  • Year: 2,013

  • Pages: 1,142

  • Pages In File: 1,150

  • Language: English

  • Topic: 102

  • Identifier: 1317795407, 9781317795407

  • Org File Size: 295,039,220

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  • Toc: The Expansion of Europe ..............3Niccolo Machiavelli ..............10Learning to Say America in English ..............39Michel de Montaigne ..............96Thomas Morton ..............168Virginia and the Indies ..............195John Esquemeling ..............292Ned Edward Ward ..............299