Harper American Literature

by McQuade, Donald

• ISBN13: 9780321027399
• ISBN10: 0321027396
• Edition: 3rd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1999-01-01
• Publisher: Pearson College Div

Table of Contents

The Literature of the New World

Introduction

The Discoveries of America

Native American Literature: First Encounters

How the New World Became America

A Literature of Experience

America and the Pastoral Ideal

Survival and Rebirth

Toward a Pluralistic Culture

Native American Narratives

A Bering Strait Eskimo Creation Account

The Time When There Were No People on the Earth Plain

Seneca Account

The Story Telling Stone

Cultural Portfolio<58> The European Conquest of America

The Saga of the Greenlanders, Anonymous

Michele de Cuneo's Letter on Columbus's Second Voyage

Broken Spears<58> The Aztec Account of Conquest of Mexico, Anonymous. @Maheads = The Conquest of New Spain

The Book of Chilam Balam of Chumayel, Anonymous

The Conquest of New Spain

Letter to the King

The Narrative of the Expedition of Coronado

A Brief and True Report of the New Found Land of Virginia

The Journal of the First Voyage, October 12, 1492

Michele de Cuneo's Letter on the Second Voyage, October 28, 1495

Columbus's Letter to the Sovereigns on the Third Voyage, October 18, 1498

The Narrative of Nu?

Letter to Captain John Smith

The Generall Historie of Virginia, New England, and the Summer Isles, Book III, Chapter II <91>Captain Smith's Captivity<93>

From a Description of New England <91>Growing Rich in the New World<93>

The Literature of Colonial America

Introduction

A "Citty upon a Hill<58>" - New England

The Religious Background

The Voyage; The Landfall

Puritan Beliefs

Puritan Literature

Native Americans

Government Obedience Women

A "Vale of Plenty" - The South

Southern Intellectual Life

Toward the Revolution<58> the 18th Century

The Enlightenment

Jonathan Edwards and the Great Awakening

Settlers and Skirmishes

Of Plymouth Plantation

Related Voices

The Life of William Bradford, Esq

A Model of Christian Charity

The Prologue

The Author to Her Book

Before the Birth of One of Her Children

To My Dear and Loving Husband

In Memory of My Dear Grandchild Elizabeth Bradstreet

Here Follows Some Verses upon the Burning of Our House

To My Dear Children

Cultural Portfolio<58> The Witchcraft Trials

Witch Hunting & Witch Trial

Magnelia Christi Americana

The Diary of Samuel Sewall

Anne Hutchinson's Trial

From The Antinomian Controversy

From John Winthrop's Journal

A Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of

Related Voices

Hanna Dustan's Narrative, Cotton Mather. @Aheads = Cultural Portfolio<58> The Ways of the Native Americans

Book III<58> Of the Indians, Their Religion, Laws, and Customs, in War and Peace

A Key Into the Language

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