The Cambridge introduction to early American literature
Elliott 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. This highly engaging and comprehensive study will be essential reading for students of the literature, history and culture of early America.
Print Book, English, 2002
Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK, 2002
viii, 198 p. ; 24 cm
9780521520416, 052152041X
318382596
Acknowledgments; Preface; 1. Brave New World; 2. The language of Salem Witchcraft; 3. The dream of a Christian utopia; 4. Personal narrative and history; 5. Poetry; 6. The Jeremiad; 7. Reason and revivalism; 8. Toward the formation of a United States; Afterword; Bibliography.
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