Table of Contents

The English Literatures of America, 1500–1800; 1: The Globe at 1500; 1: The Expansion of Europe; 2: The Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries; 2: Learning to Say “America” in English; 3: The English Diaspora; 4: Seventeenth-Century Anglo-America: Virginia and the Indies; 5: Seventeenth-Century Anglo-America: New England and Canada; 6: Seventeenth-Century Anglo-America: The Trials of Puritanism; 7: Science in America: The Seventeenth Century; 8: Poetry: The Seventeenth Century; 3: The Eighteenth Century; 9: Religion in the Enlightenment; 10: Histories; 11: The Literature of Politics; 12: Science in America: The Eighteenth Century; 13: Belles Lettres; 14: Poetry: The Eighteenth Century

About the Author

Myra Jehlen, Michael Warner

Reviews

"Recommended without reservation, this text will make a welcome addition to anyone's library." -- ARIEL
"The English Literatures of America, 1500-1800 offer(s) exciting maps to repressed regions of knowledge." -- American Literature
"...most striking about ELA is the absence of any overt, framing geography after the initial schema summarized above." -- Ed White and Micahel J. Dexler, ColonialStudies