The Cambridge companion to early American literature /

Most communications are not written down. This is as true now, in a supposedly information-saturated age, as it was in early colonial America. The point stands even if we understand the Western notion of "writing" with a generously broad interpretation, as including all forms of inscribed...

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Other Authors: Traister, Bryce (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, [2021].
Series:Cambridge companions to literature.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Narratives of early America old and new / Bryce Traister
  • How to read (in) early America. How to read things that weren't written down in early America / Matt Cohen
  • How to read the natural world / Molly Farrell
  • How to read early American poetry / Amy M. E. Morris
  • How to read gender in early America / Laura M. Stevens
  • How to read an early American novel / Marion Rust
  • How to read democracy in early United States / Dana D. Nelson
  • Readings in early America. Accident, disaster, and trauma : shattered in early America / Kathleen Donegan
  • Settler kitsch : the legacies of Puritanism in America / Jonathan Beecher Field
  • Like a prayer : the anti-slavery petition in the era of revolution / Paul Downes
  • Varieties of bondage in the early Atlantic / Ramesh Mallipeddi
  • The erotics of early America / Sandra Slater
  • Early American places. Indigenous colonial America / Caroline Wigginton
  • Colonial Latin America / Allison Bigelow
  • The colonial Pacific / Michelle Burnham
  • Caribbean America / Cassander Smith.