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.