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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Page 14
... boats in length and shape, but swifter in their motion: they steer them only by the oar. These canoes are of various sizes, but the greater number are constructed with eighteen banks of oars, and with these they cross to the other ...
... boats in length and shape, but swifter in their motion: they steer them only by the oar. These canoes are of various sizes, but the greater number are constructed with eighteen banks of oars, and with these they cross to the other ...
Page 19
... boats freighted with men and arms. We made towards the land, and before we reached it, had sight of a great number of people who were going along the shore, by which we were much rejoiced. And we observed that they were a naked race ...
... boats freighted with men and arms. We made towards the land, and before we reached it, had sight of a great number of people who were going along the shore, by which we were much rejoiced. And we observed that they were a naked race ...
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... boats, and sprang on shore full 40 men in good trim, and still the land's people appeared shy of converse with us, and we were unable to encourage them so much as to make them come to speak with us. And this day we laboured so greatly ...
... boats, and sprang on shore full 40 men in good trim, and still the land's people appeared shy of converse with us, and we were unable to encourage them so much as to make them come to speak with us. And this day we laboured so greatly ...
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... boats of theirs, constructed from a single tree, which came towards our boats, as if they had been surprised by our appearance and clothes, and kept wide of us. And thus remaining, we made signals to them that they should approach us ...
... boats of theirs, constructed from a single tree, which came towards our boats, as if they had been surprised by our appearance and clothes, and kept wide of us. And thus remaining, we made signals to them that they should approach us ...
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... boats, and in each boat they put 4 of the girls. How greatly we marvelled at this behaviour your Magnificence can imagine, and they placed themselves with their canoes among our boats, coming to speak with us, insomuch that we deemed it ...
... boats, and in each boat they put 4 of the girls. How greatly we marvelled at this behaviour your Magnificence can imagine, and they placed themselves with their canoes among our boats, coming to speak with us, insomuch that we deemed it ...
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