A companion to the literatures of colonial America /
Consisting of more than 30 original essays by leading scholars in the field, this companion provides a broad introduction to Colonial American literatures. The volume situates texts in their various historical and cultural contexts, including colonialism, imperialism, diaspora, and nation formation....
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
| Language Notes: | English. |
| Published: |
Malden, MA ; Oxford :
Blackwell Pub.,
2005.
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| Series: | Blackwell companions to literature and culture ;
35. |
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | Consisting of more than 30 original essays by leading scholars in the field, this companion provides a broad introduction to Colonial American literatures. The volume situates texts in their various historical and cultural contexts, including colonialism, imperialism, diaspora, and nation formation. In particular, it brings out the comparative, hemispheric and transatlantic nature of the writing of this period, and highlights the interactions between non-scribal native groups and Europeans that helped to shape early American writing. The companion is divided into four main sections: the opening section on issues and methods covers a wide range of approaches to defining and reading early American writing; the second section, entitled "New World Encounters", considers the interactions between cultural groups during the early centuries of exploration; the third section on identities looks at the development of regional spheres of influence in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries; while the final section considers major genres and writers of the period in a series of "Cross-Cultural Conversations".; The companion is designed to be used alongside Castillo and Schweitzer's "The Literatures of Colonial America: An Anthology" (Blackwell Publishing, 2001) |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xv, 608 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780470996416 0470996412 1405152087 9781405152082 1405112913 9781405112918 9781405165044 1405165049 1280285974 9781280285974 1782686037 9781782686033 9786610285976 6610285977 |