The Cambridge Companion to Early American Literature
The Cambridge Companion to Early American Literature
Bryce Traister, University of British Columbia, Okanagan
November 2021
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This Companion covers American literary history from European colonization to the early republic. It provides a succinct introduction to the major themes and concepts in the field of early American literature, including new world migration, indigenous encounters, religious and secular histories, and the emergence of American literary genres. This book guides readers through important conceptual and theoretical issues, while also grounding these issues in close readings of key literary texts from early America.
- Provides new readings of familiar and unfamiliar texts and authors
- Introduces readers to new scholarship in this rapidly changing field
- Demonstrates the diversification of the field
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‘This volume will broaden the horizons of even experienced scholars while orienting others to a field recently and radically transformed … Essential.’ A. T. Hale, Choice
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Table of Contents
- Introduction: narratives of early America old and new Bryce Traister
- Part I. How to Read Early America:
- 1. How to read things that weren't written down in early America Matt Cohen
- 2. How to read the natural world Molly Farrell
- 3. How to read early American poetry Amy Morris
- 4. How to read gender Laura Stevens
- 5. How to read an early American novel Marion Rust
- 6. How to read democracy in early America Dana Nelson
- Part II. Readings in Early America:
- 7. Accident, disaster, and trauma: shattered in early America Kathleen Donegan
- 8. Settler Kitsch: the legacies of Puritanism in America Jonathan Beecher Field
- 9. Like a prayer: the anti-slavery petition in the era of revolution Paul Downes
- 10. Varieties of bondage in the early Atlantic Ramesh Mallipeddi
- 11. The erotics of early America Sandra Slater
- Part III. Early American Places:
- 12. Indigenous colonial America Caroline Wigginton
- 13. Colonial Latin America Allison Bigelow
- 14. The colonial Pacific Michelle Burnham
- 15. Caribbean America Cassander Smith.
