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The American Tradition in Literature

ISBN: 9780070494237 | 0070494231
Edition: 9TH
Format: Paperback
Publisher: McGraw-Hill College
Pub. Date: 8/1/1998

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Table of Contents
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Preface Exploration and the Colonies
The Original Inhabitants Virginia and the South New England
Exploration
Giovanni da Verrazzano (1485?-1528)
Verrazzano's Voyage: 1524
Alvar NÚÑez Cabez de Vaca (C.1490-C.1557)
The Narrative of Cabeza de Vaca
The Indians bring us food... MORE
The departure of four Christians
The Christians leave the island of Malhado
The coming of Indians with Andres Dorantes, Castillo, and Estevanico
Our separation by the Indians
Of our escape
Our cure of some of the afflicted
The coming of other sick to us the next day. Samuel De Champlain (c.1567-1635). Voyages of Samuel de Champlain: The Voyages of 1604-1607
Continuation of the discoveries along the coast of the Almouchiquois, and what we observed in detail
The Colonies
John Smith (1580-1631)
THE General History of Virginia, New England, and the Summer Isles
The Third Book
The Proceedings and Accidents of the English Colony in Virginia
Chapter II: What Happened till the First Supply
The Fourth Book: The Proceedings of the English after the Alteration of the Government Of Virginia
John Smith's Relation to Queen Anne of Pocahontas (1616)
The Sixth Book
The General History of New England
The Description of New England
William Bradford (1590-1657)
Of Plymouth Plantation
Of their Voyage, and how they Passed the Sea; and of their Safe Arrival at Cape Cod
Showing How they Sought out a place of Habitation; and What Befell them Thereabout
Of Plymouth Plantation
[The Mayflower Compact (1620)]
[Compact with the Indians (1621)]
[First Thanksgiving (1621)]
[Narragansett Challenge (1622)]
[Thomas Morton of Merrymount (1628)]
Thomas Morton (C.1579-1647) New English Canaan
The First Book: Containing the Original of the Natives, Their Manners, and Customs, with their Tractable Nature and Love towards the English
Of Their Houses and Habitations
Of their Admirable Perfection in the Use of the Senses
The Third Book Containing a Description of the People that are Planted There
Of the Revels of New Canaan
Of a Great Monster Supposed to be at Ma-re Mount
John Winthrop (1588-1649)
A Model of Christian Charity
Roger Williams (1603?-1683)
The Bloody Tenet of Persecution for Cause of Conscience
Preface
The Bloody Tenet Yet More Bloody
Letter to the Town of Providence
Anne Bradstreet (1612?-1672)
The Prologue
The Four Ages of Man
Childhood
The Flesh and the Spirit
Contemplations
The Author to Her Book
Before the Birth of One of Her Children
To My Dear and Loving Husband
A Letter to Her Husband, Absent upon Public Employment
Another [Letter of Her Husband, Absent upon Public Employment]
In Memory of My Dear Grandchild Elizabeth Bradstreet, Who Deceased August, 1665 Being a Year and a Half Old
Upon the Burning of Our House, July 10th, 1666
Meditations, Divine and Moral
Michael Wigglesworth (1631-1705)
The Day of Doom
Puritanism Mary Rowlandson (1636?-1711?)
A Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of
Mrs. Mary Rowlandson
Samuel Sewall (1652-1730)
The Diary of
Samuel Sewall
[Customs, Courts, and Courtships]
Edward Taylor (1642?-1729)
The Preface
Meditation 1, First Series
Upon Wedlock, and Death of Children
The Experience
Huswifery
Meditation 8, First Series
The Glory of and Grace in the Church set out
Upon a Spider Catching a Fly
The Reflexion
The Joy of Church Fellowship rightly attended
Meditation 42, First Series
A Fig for thee Oh! Death
Two Meditations on "The Song of Solomon," Canticle VI
Meditation 142, Second Series
Meditation 146, Second Series
Cotton Mather (1663-1728)
The Wonders of the Invisible World
Enchantments Encountered
The Trial of Bridget Bishop
A Third Curiosity
Magnalia Christi Americana
The Life of John Winthrop
The Life of His Excellency Sir William Phips
Bonifacius: Essays to Do Good
Much Occasion for Doing Good
The Excellence of Well-Doing
The Reward of Well-Doing
Opportunities to Do Good
On Internal Piety and Self-Examination
Sarah Kemble Knight (1666-1727)
The Journal of Madam Knight
[New England Frontier]
[Connecticut]
[New York City]
The South and the Middle Colonies
Ebenezer Cook (1667?-1733?)
The Sotweed Factor
William Byrd (1674-1744)
The History of the Dividing Line
[The Marooner]
[Lubberland]
[Indian Neighbors]
A Progress to the Mines
[Reading a Play in the Backwoods]
John Woolman (1720-1772)
The Journal of
John Woolman. 1720-1742
[Early Years]. 1749-1756
[On Merchandise]. 1757
[Evidence of Divine Truth]
[Slavery]. 1755-1758
[Taxes and Wars]
St. Jean De CrÈvecour (1735-1813)
Letters from an American Farmer
What Is an American? Description of Charles-Town; Thoughts on Slavery; On Physical Evil; A Melancholy Scene
Sketches of Eighteenth Century America
Manners of the Americans
William Bartram (1739-1823)
Travels Through North and South Carolina, Georgia, East and West Florida
[Alligators]
[The Amazing Crystal Fountain]
[Indian Corn, Green Meadows, and Strawberry Fields]
Reason and Revolution
The Englightenment and the Spirit of Rationalism
From Neoclassical to Romantic Literature
Jonathan Edwards (1703-1758)
Sarah Pierrepont
A Divine and Supernatural Light
Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God
Personal Narrative
Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)
The Autobiography
Poor Richard's Almanack
Preface to Poor Richard, 1733
The Way to Wealth: Preface to Poor Richard, 1758
An Edict by the King of Prussia
The Sale of the Hessians
The Ephemera
To Madame Helvetius
Information to Those Who Would Remove to America
Letter to William Franklin
[We Are Men, All Subject to Errors]
Letter to Ezra Stiles [Here Is My Creed]
Speech in the [Constitutional] Convention
Thomas Paine (1737-1809)
Common Sense
Thoughts on the Present State of American Affairs
The American Crisis
The Age of Reason
[Profession of Faith]
[Of Myth and Miracle]
[Christian Revelation and Nature]
[First Cause: God of Reason]
[Recapitulation]
John Adams (1755-1826)
Abigail Adams (1744-1818)
Letters
Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826)
The Declaration of Independence
First Inaugural Address
Notes on the State of Virginia
[A Southerner on Slavery]
Letter to Dr. Benjamin Rush
[The Christian Deist]
Letter to John Adams
[The True Aristocracy]
Olaudah Equiano (1745?-1797?)
The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 7
Phillis Wheatley (1753?-1784)
To the University of Cambridge, in New-England
On Being Brought from Africa to America
On the Death of the Reverend Mr. George Whitefield
An Hymn to the Evening
To S.M. a Young African Painter, on Seeing His Works
To His Excellency General Washington
The Federalist (1787-1788)
The Federalist No. 1
[Alexander Hamilton]
The Federalist No. 10
[James Madison]
Philip Freneau (1752-1832)
To Sir Toby
To the Memory of the Brave Americans
On Mr. Paine's Rights of Man
The Wild Ho
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