The Cambridge Introduction to Early American LiteratureThe Cambridge Introduction to Early American Literature offers students a literary history of American writing in English between 1492 and 1820, as well as providing a concise social and cultural history of these three centuries. Emory Elliott traces the impact of race, gender, and ethnic conflict on early American culture, and explores the centrality of American Puritanism in the formation of a distinctively American literature. This highly engaging and comprehensive study will be essential reading for students of the literature, history and culture of early America. |
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Brave New World | 1 |
The language of Salem witchcraft | 17 |
The dream of a Christian Utopia | 29 |
Personal narrative and history | 51 |
Poetry | 71 |
The Jeremiad | 100 |
Reason and revivalism | 125 |
Toward the formation of a United States | 153 |
Afterword | 170 |
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| 187 | |
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| Título | The Cambridge Introduction to Early American Literature Cambridge Introductions to Literature |
| Autores | Emory Elliott, Elliott Emory |
| Edição | ilustrada |
| Editora | Cambridge University Press, 2002 |
| ISBN | 052152041X, 9780521520416 |
| Número de páginas | 198 páginas |
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