Early American WritingPenguin, 1. feb. 1994 - 672 sider Drawing materials from journals and diaries, political documents and religious sermons, prose and poetry, Giles Gunn's anthology provides a panoramic survey of early American life and literature—including voices black and white, male and female, Hispanic, French, and Native American. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators. |
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... sometime before the rise of nationalist aspirations around the middle of the eighteenth century. Now, however, it is accepted that early American literature originates in a period that antedates the commencement of English settlement ...
... sometime before the rise of nationalist aspirations around the middle of the eighteenth century. Now, however, it is accepted that early American literature originates in a period that antedates the commencement of English settlement ...
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... sometimes different expressive talents of women. Where this literature was formerly considered the experiential record primarily of transplanted English citizens, we now know that Hispanic, French, AfricanAmerican, and Native American ...
... sometimes different expressive talents of women. Where this literature was formerly considered the experiential record primarily of transplanted English citizens, we now know that Hispanic, French, AfricanAmerican, and Native American ...
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... sometimes learned, stories, poems, tales, and sayings that taught them, often for the very first time, about the ecological interdependence and unity of all life. Yet for all the sophistication and heterogeneity of their societies and ...
... sometimes learned, stories, poems, tales, and sayings that taught them, often for the very first time, about the ecological interdependence and unity of all life. Yet for all the sophistication and heterogeneity of their societies and ...
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... sometimes been maintained—mistakenly, as it happens —that Puritanism produced a rigid uniformity of belief and practice in seventeenthcentury New England, historians have reminded us that Puritans never constituted more than a minority ...
... sometimes been maintained—mistakenly, as it happens —that Puritanism produced a rigid uniformity of belief and practice in seventeenthcentury New England, historians have reminded us that Puritans never constituted more than a minority ...
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... sometimes accompanied by trembling or quaking (hence the name) and implied little need for trained clergy or the orthodox regulation of belief, the Quakers were almost immediately brought into conflict with the Puritan establishment ...
... sometimes accompanied by trembling or quaking (hence the name) and implied little need for trained clergy or the orthodox regulation of belief, the Quakers were almost immediately brought into conflict with the Puritan establishment ...
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Michel de Montaigne 15331592 | |
Michael Drayton 15631631 | |
Samuel de Champlain 15671635 | |
John Smith 15801631 | |
William Bradford 15901657 | |
Fray Carlos José Delgado 1677c 1750 | |
Benjamin Franklin 17061790 | |
Elizabeth Ashbridge 17131755 | |
John Woolman 17201772 | |
Chief Logan | |
Chief Pachgantschilias | |
Thomas Jefferson 17341826 | |
Thomas Paine 17371809 | |
Thomas Morton 1579?1647 | |
Ann Hutchinson 15911643 | |
Anne Bradstreet 1612?1672 | |
Roger Williams 16131683 | |
Michael Wigglesworth 16311705 | |
Edward Taylor 1644?1729 | |
Samuel Sewall 16521730 | |
Sarah Kemble Knight 16661727 | |
Robert Beverley c 16731722 | |
Abigail Adams 17441818 | |
Hugh Henry Brackenridge 17481816 | |
The Federalist Papers 17871788 | |
Timothy Dwight 17521817 | |
Joel Barlow 17541812 | |
Royall Tyler 17571826 | |
Susanna Haswell Rowson 1762?1824 | |
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