Table of Contents

Notes on the Contributors ; Introduction ; Part I Exploration and Promotion ; 1 The Literature of Exploration - E. Thomson Shields, Jr. ; 2 Captain John Smith - Steven Olsen-Smith ; 3 Promotion Literature - Karen Schramm ; Part II Devotional Literature ; 4 Puritan Historians and Historiography - Naoki Onishi ; 5 New England Poetry - Ronald Bosco and Jillmarie Murphy ; 6 Captivity Literature - Lorrayne Carroll ; 7 Jonathan Edwards and The Great Awakening - Thomas S. Kidd ; Part III The Augustan Age in America ; 8 Augustan American Verse - Chris Beyers ; 9 Picaresque Travel Narratives -Daniel Royot ; 10 Dr. Alexander Hamilton - Kevin J. Hayes ; 11 Indian Voices in Early American Literature - Joshua David Bellin ; 12 Scientific Discourse - Susan Scott Parrish ; Part IV Contexts of Reading ; 13 Newspapers and Magazines - Christine Modey ; 14 Print and Manuscript Culture - Carla Mulford ; 15 Early American Libraries - Sarah Fatherly ; Part V Expressions of Individuality ; 16 Diaries - Kevin Berland ; 17 Early American Autobiography - Susan Clair Imbarrato ; 18 Early American Slave Narratives - April Langley ; 19 Benjamin Franklin - Kevin J. Hayes ; Part VI The Revolutionary Era ; 20 Early American Drama - Jason Shaffer ; 21 The Literature of Politics - Frank Shuffelton ; 22 Revolutionary Verse - Colin Wells ; Part VII Late Eighteenth-Century Prose ; 23 The Beginnings of the American Novel - Melissa J. Homestead ; 24 Crevecoeurs Letters from an American Farmer - David J. Carlson ; 25 History as Literature - Ed White ; 26 The Place of Natural History in Early American Literature - Kevin J. Hayes

About the Author

Kevin J. Hayes was born and raised in Toledo, Ohio. He is the author of many books including A Peep into Korea, An American Cycling Odyssey, 1887, A Colonial Womans Bookshelf, and The Library of William Byrd of Westover, for which he won the Virginia Library History Award presented by the Virginia Center for the Book and the Library of Virginia.