19th Century American History - General and Miscellaneous, Literary Criticism - U.S. Fiction & Prose Literature - Colonial Literature, 19th Century American Literature - Literary Criticism, 18th Century American History - Social Aspects

Early America re-explored

Name: Early America re-explored
Author: Klaus H. Schmidt and Fritz Fleischmann
ISBN: 9780820445953

by Klaus H. Schmidt and Fritz Fleischmann

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Overview

Scholars from the United States, England, and Germany re-read and re- contextualize American writings from the colonial to antebellum periods. The authors and topics analyzed range from Winthrop and Puritan rhetorics, the Pynchons and Hawthornes, Puritan missionary discourse, Rowlandson's captivity narrative, Scottish-American self- fashioning, Ashbridge's autobiography, and the transatlantic subtext of Wheatley's poetry, to the theory and practice of early American literature, the role of geography books in constructing American identities, women and Native Americans in Child and Sedgwick, abolitionist writings, technology in antebellum short stories, and post-colonial aspects of Cooper's, Poe's, and Melville's sea fiction. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR