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The English Literatures of America - 1500-1800 (Hardcover)
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The English Literatures of America - 1500-1800 (Hardcover)
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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, This anthology survey the emergence of
Anglo-American cultures in the first dramatic period of the
European empires.
The book begins with the first colonization of the Americas and
stretches beyond the Revolution to the early national period.
Placing the literary culture of the settlements in the context of
other colonies as well as the growing cosmopolitan culture of the
British empire itself, this lively reader contains numerous
dialogues across the Englis Atlantic world. While historically
sound and thorough, thi anthology responds to current interests,
for example, the global context of national cultures; the relation
between colonial histories and cosmopolitan culture; or the
omissions and margins of the literary record.
"The English Literatures of America" offers a wide range of voices,
including women writers on both sides of the ocean, early
English-language texts of Native Americans, and writings of
Africans both slave and free, in London as well as in the American
colonies. It includes texts from elite as well as common cultures,
Puritans in New England as well as Puritans in the West Indies,
regional cultures in the colonial South as well as the grand
cosmopolitan culture of imperial London. The organization of "The
English Literatures of America" involves a thorough rethinking of
colonial American literature while retaining the standards of the
American canon. American literatures are for the first time
presented in an international and colonial context. Not only do new
texts appear; familiar ones have newsignificance. The Puritans can
be read as they understood themselves, i.e., as New "English."
Many texts are collected here for the first time in any anthology.
Others are recognized masterpieces of the canon--both British and
American--that for the first time can be read in their Atlantic
context. Here, for example, are Francis Bacon, Andrew Marvell,
Alexander Pope and Adam Smith, as well as Bradstreet, Wheatley,
Edwards and Franklin. Despite the unparalleled scope of this
anthology, many texts are given complete rather than in snippets.
These include Hariot's "Brief and True Report of the New Found Land
of Virginia," Aphra Behn's play "The Widow Ranter," numerous essays
by Benjamin Franklin and others. 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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