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  1. Entertaining the Nation
    American Drama in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries
    Autor*in: Miller, Tice L.
    Erschienen: 2007
    Verlag:  Southern Illinois University Press, Carbondale

    In this survey of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century American drama, Tice L. Miller examines American plays written before a canon was established in American dramatic literature and provides analyses central to the culture that produced them.... mehr

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    In this survey of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century American drama, Tice L. Miller examines American plays written before a canon was established in American dramatic literature and provides analyses central to the culture that produced them. Entertaining the Nation: American Drama in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries evaluates plays in the early years of the republic, reveals shifts in taste from the classical to the contemporary in the 1840s and 1850s, and considers the increasing influence of realism at the end of the nineteenth century. Miller explores the

     

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    ISBN: 9780809327782
    Schriftenreihe: Theater in the Americas
    Theater in the Americas Ser.
    Schlagworte: American drama ; 18th century ; History and criticism; American drama ; 19th century ; History and criticism; American drama ; Revolutionary period, 1775-1783 ; History and criticism; English drama ; 18th century ; History and criticism; National characteristics, American, in literature; United States ; Intellectual life ; 18th century; United States ; Intellectual life ; 19th century; Electronic books
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    Cover; Other Books in the Theater in the Americas Series; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Introduction; 1. British Drama and the Colonial American Stage; 2. American Drama of the New Republic; 3. Drama in the Age of Jackson; 4. The Age of Melodrama; 5. Realism and American Drama; Epilogue; Notes; Bibliography; Index; Author Bio; Series Statement; Back Cover

  2. A Companion to the Literatures of Colonial America
    Autor*in: Schweitzer, Ivy
    Erschienen: 2008
    Verlag:  John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Hoboken

    This broad introduction to Colonial American literatures brings out the comparative and transatlantic nature of the writing of this period and highlights the interactions between native, non-scribal groups, and Europeans that helped to shape early... mehr

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    This broad introduction to Colonial American literatures brings out the comparative and transatlantic nature of the writing of this period and highlights the interactions between native, non-scribal groups, and Europeans that helped to shape early American writing.Situates the writing of this period in its various historical and cultural contexts, including colonialism, imperialism, diaspora, and nation formation. Highlights interactions between native, non-scribal groups and Europeans during the early centuries of exploration. Covers a wide range of approaches to defining and reading early Am

     

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    ISBN: 9781405112918
    Schriftenreihe: Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture Ser
    Blackwell companions to literature and culture ; v.35
    Schlagworte: American literature ; Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 ; History and criticism; Colonies in literature; Imperialism in literature; United States ; Intellectual life ; 17th century; United States ; Intellectual life ; 18th century; United States ; Literatures ; History and criticism; Electronic books
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    A Companion to the Literatures of Colonial America; Contents; List of Figures; Notes on Contributors; Introduction; 1 Prologomenal Thinking: Some Possibilities and Limits of Comparitive Desire; 2 First Peoples: An Introduction to Early Native American Studies; 3 Toward a Cultural Geography of Colonial American Literatures:Empire, Location, Creolization; 4 Textual Investments: Economics and Colonial American Literatures; 5 The Culture of Colonial America: Theology and Aesthetics; 6 Teaching the Text of Early American Literature

    7 Teaching with the New Technology: Three Intriguing Opportunities8 Recovering Precolonial American Literary History:"The Origin of Stories" and the Popol Vub; 9 Toltec Mirrors: Europeans and Native Americans in Each Other's Eyes; 10 Reading for Indian Resistance; 11 Refocusing New Spain and Spanish Colonization: Malinche,Guadalupe, and Sor Juana; 12 British Colonial Expansion Westwards: Ireland and America; 13 The French Relation and Its ''Hidden'' Colonial History; 14 Visions of the Other in Sixteenth and Seventeenth-Century Writing to Brazil

    15 New World Ethnography, the Caribbean, and Behn's Oroonoko16 Gendered Voices from Lima and Mexico: Clarinda,Amarilis, and Sor Juana; 17 Cleansing Mexican Antiquity: Sor Juana Ine´s de la Cruz and the loa to The Divine Narcissuss; 18 Hemispheric Americanism: Latin American Exiles and US Revolutionary Writings; 19 Putting Together the Pieces: Notes on the Eighteenth-Century Literary Imagination; 20 The Transoceanic Emergence of American ''Postcolonial'' Identities; 21 The Genres of Exploration and Conquest Literatures; 22 The Conversion Narrative in Early America

    23 Indigenous Literacies: New England and New Spain24 America's First Mass Media: Preaching and the Protestant Sermon Tradition; 25 Neither Here Nor There: Transatlantic Epistolarity in Early America; 26 True Relations and Critical Fictions: The Case of the Personal Narrative in Colonial American Literatures; 27 ''Cross-Cultural Conversations'': The Captivity Narrative; 28 Epic, Creoles, and Nation in Spanish America; 29 Plainness and Paradox: Colonial Tensions in the Early New England Religious Lyric; 30 Captivating Animals: Science and Spectacle in Early American Natural Histories

    31 Challenging Conventional Historiography: The Roaming "I"/Eye in Early Colonial American Eyewitness Accounts32 Republican Theatricality and Transatlantic Empire; 33 Reading Early American Fiction; Index;

  3. Authority, Autonomy, and Representation in American Literature, 1776-1865
    Erschienen: 2014
    Verlag:  Princeton University Press, Princeton

    From the Revolutionary War to the Civil War, a familiar scene appears and reappears in American literature: a speaker stands before a crowd of men and women, attempting to mitigate their natural suspicions in order to form a body of federated wills.... mehr

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    From the Revolutionary War to the Civil War, a familiar scene appears and reappears in American literature: a speaker stands before a crowd of men and women, attempting to mitigate their natural suspicions in order to form a body of federated wills. In this important study of the relationship of literature and politics, Mark Patterson argues that this scene restates political issues in literary terms and embodies the essential problems of American democracy facing both politicians and writers: What is autonomy? How does representation work? Where does true authority lie? Beginning with the de

     

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  4. Early American Literature
    A Comparatist Approach
    Erschienen: 2014
    Verlag:  Princeton University Press, Princeton

    A. Owen Aldridge shows that early American literature is not an isolated phenomenon, but one affected by the same influences which operated upon other literatures of the period. Originally published in 1982. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the... mehr

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    A. Owen Aldridge shows that early American literature is not an isolated phenomenon, but one affected by the same influences which operated upon other literatures of the period. Originally published in 1982. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These paperback editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access

     

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    ISBN: 9781400853090
    Schriftenreihe: Princeton Legacy Library
    Schlagworte: American literature ; Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 ; History and criticism; American literature ; Revolutionary period, 1775-1783 ; History and criticism; American literature ; 1783-1850 ; History and criticism; Comparative literature; United States ; Intellectual life ; 18th century; United States ; Intellectual life ; 1783-1865; Electronic books
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    Cover; 1. Introduction

  5. Oracles of empire
    poetry, politics, and commerce in British America, 1690-1750
    Erschienen: 1990
    Verlag:  University of Chicago Press, Chicago

    Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: The Issue of Empire in the Literary Self-Understanding of British Americans -- Part One. The British Empire and the Poetry of Commerce -- Chapter 1. The Literary Topology of Mercantilism --... mehr

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    Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: The Issue of Empire in the Literary Self-Understanding of British Americans -- Part One. The British Empire and the Poetry of Commerce -- Chapter 1. The Literary Topology of Mercantilism -- Chapter 2. The Tide of Empire -- Imperium Pelagi -- The Sea-Piece" -- The Tribulations of Columbus -- Blood and Brine -- Chapter 3. The Material Redeemers -- The Archetype of Liberty and Law -- The Benefactor -- Chapter 4. Staples -- Trading Weed -- Dyer's "Fleece" -- Indico" -- The Sugar-Cane" -- Islands of Iniquity -- The Deserted Plantation -- Heroic Agriculture -- Part Two. The Paper Wars Over the Prerogative -- Chapter 5. The Problem of the Prerogative -- Chapter 6. The Paper Wars in Massachusetts -- Old Charter -- The Pharaoh of Prerogative -- The Passing of the Mantle -- The Problem of Old Sarum's Son -- Belcher Apostate" -- Chapter 7. The Spread of Boston Principles -- The Keeper -- The Power of Fable -- The Mock Monarchy or Kingdom of Apes" -- Bestial Riddles -- Ballad War -- The Riddle -- Part Three. The Rhetoric of Imperial Animosity -- Chapter 8. Empire of Evil -- Zeuma -- or, The Love of Liberty" (1729) -- The War of Jenkins' Ear -- Chapter 9. Gallic Perfidy -- Antichrist in the Wilderness -- The Violence of Popular Feeling -- Indian Songs of Peace -- The Conquest of Louisbourg -- Chapter 10. The Tenuousness of Imperial Identity -- The Sum of All Prophecies -- Notes -- Bibliography of Primary Sources -- Canada -- New England -- New York and New Jersey -- Pennsylvania -- The Chesopean Colonies -- The Carolinas -- Georgia -- West Indies -- Metropolitan Writings -- Index.

     

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    ISBN: 9780226752990
    Schlagworte: American poetry; Colonies in literature; Imperialism in literature; Political poetry, American; Commerce in literature; American poetry ; Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 ; History and criticism; Colonies in literature; Commerce in literature; Imperialism in literature; Political poetry, American ; History and criticism; United States ; Intellectual life ; 18th century; Electronic books
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    Includes bibliographical references and index

    ""Contents ""; ""Acknowledgments ""; ""Introduction: The Issue of Empire in the Literary Self-Understanding of British Americans ""; ""Part One. The British Empire and the Poetry of Commerce ""; ""Chapter 1. The Literary Topology of Mercantilism ""; ""Chapter 2. The Tide of Empire""; ""Imperium Pelagi ""; """"The Sea-Piece"" ""; ""The Tribulations of Columbus ""; ""Blood and Brine ""; ""Chapter 3. The Material Redeemers ""; ""The Archetype of Liberty and Law ""; ""The Benefactor ""; ""Chapter 4. Staples""; ""Trading Weed ""; ""Dyer's ""Fleece"" ""; """"Indico"" ""; """"The Sugar-Cane"" ""

    ""Islands of Iniquity """"The Deserted Plantation ""; ""Heroic Agriculture ""; ""Part Two. The Paper Wars Over the Prerogative ""; ""Chapter 5. The Problem of the Prerogative ""; ""Chapter 6. The Paper Wars in Massachusetts ""; ""Old Charter ""; ""The Pharaoh of Prerogative ""; ""The Passing of the Mantle ""; ""The Problem of Old Sarum's Son ""; """"Belcher Apostate"" ""; ""Chapter 7. The Spread of Boston Principles ""; ""The Keeper ""; ""The Power of Fable ""; """"The Mock Monarchy or Kingdom of Apes"" ""; ""Bestial Riddles ""; ""Ballad War ""; ""The Riddle ""

    ""Part Three. The Rhetoric of Imperial Animosity """"Chapter 8. Empire of Evil""; """"Zeuma; or, The Love of Liberty"" (1729)""; ""The War of Jenkins' Ear""; ""Chapter 9. Gallic Perfidy""; ""Antichrist in the Wilderness""; ""The Violence of Popular Feeling""; """"Indian Songs of Peace""""; ""The Conquest of Louisbourg""; ""Chapter 10. The Tenuousness of Imperial Identity""; ""The Sum of All Prophecies""; ""Notes""; ""Bibliography of Primary Sources""; ""Canada""; ""New England""; ""New York and New Jersey""; ""Pennsylvania""; ""The Chesopean Colonies""; ""The Carolinas ""; ""Georgia""

    ""West Indies""""Metropolitan Writings""; ""Index""

  6. Hobbes, sovereignty, and early American literature
    Autor*in: Downes, Paul
    Erschienen: 2015
    Verlag:  Cambridge University Press, New York

    Hobbes, Sovereignty, and Early American Literature explores the development of ideas about sovereignty and democracy in the early United States mehr

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    Hobbes, Sovereignty, and Early American Literature explores the development of ideas about sovereignty and democracy in the early United States

     

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