The Nascence of American LiteratureiUniverse, 2002 - 440 Seiten Early Writings about exploration and settlement of America, and discussion of the careers and writings of Edwards, Franklin, Paine, Jefferson, Taylor, Wigglesworth, the Mathers, Byrd, Hamilton, Brown, Freneau, Irving, Cooper, Bryant, and many others. The book traces the progress from writings about America by foreign observers to the emergence of belletristic literature by native Americans. |
Inhalt
Early Colonial Writing | 1 |
Puritan Literature | 12 |
Puritan Theocracy and Theology | 32 |
The Colonial Century | 52 |
Puritan Poetry | 77 |
Indian Captivities | 94 |
Quakers and Pietists | 112 |
The Great Awakening | 122 |
Lesser Connecticut Wits | 243 |
Descriptive Writers | 246 |
The Rise of a National Literature | 268 |
Playwriting in the Early National Period | 313 |
Knickerbockers | 320 |
Other Early Knickerbockers | 340 |
Writers of Sentimental Songs | 348 |
WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT | 395 |
The Revolutionary Generation | 142 |
Political Sermons | 170 |
Verse of the Revolutionary Period | 212 |
JOHN TRUMBULL | 226 |
Romancers of the Old South | 405 |
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