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Comp Literatures of Colonial America

Comp Literatures of Colonial America

Hardcover

Series: Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture

Literary Criticism

ISBN10: 1405112913
ISBN13: 9781405112918
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Published: Oct 5 2005
Pages: 628
Weight: 2.41
Height: 1.59 Width: 7.14 Depth: 9.96
Language: English
This broad introduction to Colonial American literatures brings out the comparative and transatlantic nature of the writing of this period and highlights the interactions between native, non-scribal groups, and Europeans that helped to shape early American writing.
  • Situates the writing of this period in its various historical and cultural contexts, including colonialism, imperialism, diaspora, and nation formation.
  • Highlights interactions between native, non-scribal groups and Europeans during the early centuries of exploration.
  • Covers a wide range of approaches to defining and reading early American writing.
  • Looks at the development of regional spheres of influence in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.
  • Serves as a vital adjunct to Castillo and Schweitzer's 'The Literatures of Colonial America: An Anthology' (Blackwell Publishing, 2001).

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