Cambridge Companion to Early American Literature (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Traister, Bryce

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This Companion covers American literary history from European colonization to the early republic. It provides a succinct introduction to the major themes and concepts in the field of early American literature, including new world migration, indigenous encounters, religious and secular histories, and the emergence of American literary genres. This book guides readers through important conceptual and theoretical issues, while also grounding these issues in close readings of key literary texts from early America.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. November 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781108888936
• Artikelnr.: 66181644

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: narratives of early America old and new Bryce Traister
Part I. How to Read Early America: 1. How to read things that weren't written down in early America Matt Cohen
2. How to read the natural world Molly Farrell
3. How to read early American poetry Amy Morris
4. How to read gender Laura Stevens
5. How to read an early American novel Marion Rust
6. How to read democracy in early America Dana Nelson
Part II. Readings in Early America: 7. Accident, disaster, and trauma: shattered in early America Kathleen Donegan
8. Settler Kitsch: the legacies of Puritanism in America Jonathan Beecher Field
9. Like a prayer: the anti-slavery petition in the era of revolution Paul Downes
10. Varieties of bondage in the early Atlantic Ramesh Mallipeddi
11. The erotics of early America Sandra Slater
Part III. Early American Places: 12. Indigenous colonial America Caroline Wigginton
13. Colonial Latin America Allison Bigelow
14. The colonial Pacific Michelle Burnham
15. Caribbean America Cassander Smith.