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Title Early American literature : a collection of critical essays / edited by Michael T. Gilmore.

Imprint

Englewood Cliffs, N.J. : Prentice-Hall, c1980.

Copies

Location	Call No.	OPAC Message	Status
Axe 2nd Floor Stacks	810.9001 Ea76 1980	---	Available

Description	viii, 184 p. ; 21 cm.
Series	Twentieth century views
	A Spectrum book ; S-TC-152
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (p. 182-184).
Contents	Captain John Smith's image of America / Edwin C. Rozwenc -- Colonial dialect / Perry Miller -- Puritan poetics / Robert Daly -- Israel in Babylon : the archetype of the captivity narratives / Richard Slotkin -- Garden of the chattel : Robert Beverley and William Byrd II / Lewis P. Simpson -- Jonathan Edwards and typology / Ursula Brumm -- Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin / Robert F. Sayre -- Whig sentimentalism / Kenneth Silverman -- Common sense and Paine's republicanism / Eric Foner -- Thomas Jefferson and the equality of man / Garry Wills -- "Double-tongued deceiver" : sincerity and duplicity in the novels of Charles Brockden Brown / Michael Davitt Bell -- Image of America : from hermeneutics to symbolism / Sacvan Bercovitch -- Colonial experience in the literature of the United States / Kenneth B. Murdock.
Subject	American literature -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 -- History and criticism.
	American literature -- Revolution, 1775-1783 -- History and criticism.
	American literature -- 1783-1850 -- History and criticism.
	United States -- Intellectual life -- 18th century.
	United States -- Intellectual life -- 17th century.
	United States -- Intellectual life -- 1783-1865.
	Colonies in literature.
Added Author	Gilmore, Michael T.
ISBN	0132224631 (pbk.))
	0132225131