The English Literatures of America: 1500-1800Myra Jehlen, Michael Warner The English Literatures of America redefines colonial American literatures, sweeping from Newfoundland and Nova Scotia to the West Indies and Guiana. The book begins with the first colonization of the Americas and stretches beyond the Revolution to the early national period. Many texts are collected here for the first time; others are recognized masterpieces of the canon--both British and American--that can now be read in their Atlantic context. By emphasizing the culture of empire and by representing a transatlantic dialogue, The English Literatures of America allows a new way to understand colonial literature both in the United States and abroad. |
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... Spain, which had pioneered the art of conquering and administering other lands across the ocean, had been surpassed by England, which in the words of Fernand Braudel was “the first territorial state to complete its tranformation into a ...
... Spain, which had pioneered the art of conquering and administering other lands across the ocean, had been surpassed by England, which in the words of Fernand Braudel was “the first territorial state to complete its tranformation into a ...
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... Spain in Spain, nor a Europe, as we understand any of these today. Their modern identities grew out of interactions that changed all the participants, transforming them into entities defined by their relations to one another. Spain became ...
... Spain in Spain, nor a Europe, as we understand any of these today. Their modern identities grew out of interactions that changed all the participants, transforming them into entities defined by their relations to one another. Spain became ...
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... Spain, by Christopher Columbus, to whom our age is greatly indebted, treating of the islands of India recently discovered beyond the Ganges, to explore which he had been sent eight months before under the auspices and at the expense of ...
... Spain, by Christopher Columbus, to whom our age is greatly indebted, treating of the islands of India recently discovered beyond the Ganges, to explore which he had been sent eight months before under the auspices and at the expense of ...
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... Spain in the month of May,—some of them were blossoming, some bearing fruit, and all flourishing in the greatest perfection, according to their respective stages of growth, and the nature and quality of each: yet the islands are not so ...
... Spain in the month of May,—some of them were blossoming, some bearing fruit, and all flourishing in the greatest perfection, according to their respective stages of growth, and the nature and quality of each: yet the islands are not so ...
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... Spain from Catalonia to Fontarabia, which is easily proved, because one of its four sides which I myself coasted in a direct line, from west to east, measures five hundred and forty miles. This island is to be regarded with especial ...
... Spain from Catalonia to Fontarabia, which is easily proved, because one of its four sides which I myself coasted in a direct line, from west to east, measures five hundred and forty miles. This island is to be regarded with especial ...
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