Early American WritingPenguin, 01/02/1994 - 672 páginas 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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... less notable if it were not so difficult to remember that the American literary canon has always been undergoing revision. The canon of 1920—or of 1950, or even of 1970—had a very different appearance than the canon of today, and the ...
... less notable if it were not so difficult to remember that the American literary canon has always been undergoing revision. The canon of 1920—or of 1950, or even of 1970—had a very different appearance than the canon of today, and the ...
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... less than the renewal of Western Christendom itself, and to this end they saw themselves as religious pilgrims journeying to what they hoped would be the promised land spoken of in the Hebrew scriptures and known to Christians as the ...
... less than the renewal of Western Christendom itself, and to this end they saw themselves as religious pilgrims journeying to what they hoped would be the promised land spoken of in the Hebrew scriptures and known to Christians as the ...
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... less that those who underwent it could count on being among the elect. Hence the incessant scrutiny of one's life for signs of backsliding or indifference, the relentless discipline of selfaccusation and renunciation, the ceaseless ...
... less that those who underwent it could count on being among the elect. Hence the incessant scrutiny of one's life for signs of backsliding or indifference, the relentless discipline of selfaccusation and renunciation, the ceaseless ...
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... less than twenty years later, William Penn (1644–1718), the man whom Cotton Mather wanted seized and sold into slavery, was awarded the territory now known as Pennsylvania, in which he immediately established the most liberal and ...
... less than twenty years later, William Penn (1644–1718), the man whom Cotton Mather wanted seized and sold into slavery, was awarded the territory now known as Pennsylvania, in which he immediately established the most liberal and ...
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... less than a century, America would declare its independence from England, fight a war to secure that freedom, and draw up and ratify a Constitution defining what was achieved thereby: the United States of America. In the meantime, the ...
... less than a century, America would declare its independence from England, fight a war to secure that freedom, and draw up and ratify a Constitution defining what was achieved thereby: the United States of America. In the meantime, the ...
Índice
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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