The Oxford Handbook of Early American Literature (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Hayes, Kevin J.

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

The Oxford Handbook of Early American Literature is a major new reference work that provides the best 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. Organized primarily in terms of genre, the chapters include original research on key concepts, as well as analysis of interesting texts from throughout colonial America. Separate chapters are devoted to literary genres of great importance at the time of their composition that have been neglected in recent decades, such as histories, promotion literature, and scientific writing. New interpretations are offered on the works of Benjamin Franklin, Jonathan Edwards and Dr. Alexander Hamilton while lesser known figures are also brought to light. Newly vital areas like print culture and natural history are given full treatment. As with other Oxford Handbooks, the contributors cover the field in a comprehensive yet accessible way that is suitable for those wishing to gain a good working knowledge of an area of study and where it's headed.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Februar 2008
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780199720156
• Artikelnr.: 38135914

Autorenporträt

Kevin J. Hayes was born and raised in Toledo, Ohio. He is the author of many books including A Peep into Korea, An American Cycling Odyssey, 1887, A Colonial Womans Bookshelf, and The Library of William Byrd of Westover, for which he won the Virginia Library History Award presented by the Virginia Center for the Book and the Library of Virginia.

Inhaltsangabe

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 Crèvecoeurs 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