Early American literature and culture : essays honoring Harrison T. Meserole
Early American Literature and Culture: Essays Honoring Harrison T. Meserole, a timely collection that reflects changing conceptions of the field, contains studies by leading scholars and celebrates the achievements of Harrison T. Meserole--colonialist, bibliographer, and Shakespeare scholar extraordinaire. These dynamic essays deal with areas at the forefront of current research, such as popular culture, minority and non-Anglo writings, recanonization, genre studies, and
Print Book, English, ©1992
University of Delaware Press ; Associated University Presses, Newark, Del., London, ©1992
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264 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
9780874134230, 0874134234
24070083
National interest and the genealogy of early American literature / Timothy K. Conley
Hudson's mermaid : symbol and myth in early American sea literature / Donald P. Wharton
The significance of the colonial promotion tract / Paul J. Lindholdt
Captain John Smith's satire of Sir Walter Raleigh / Raymond F. Dolle
Jehovah's peculium : the New Jerusalem and the Jews in Puritan eschatology / Reiner Smolinski
Ethnic pluralism in early American literature : incorporating Dutch-American texts into the canon / Ada Van Gastel
The New England frontier and the picaresque in Sarah Kemble Knight's journal / Kathryn Zabelle Derounian-Stodola
"The war of the words" in Harvard's class of '54 : collegiate literary culture in eighteenth-century America / Jeffrey Walker
The beginning of time : Jonathan Edwards's Original sin / Stephen R. Yarbrough
The muse of history : Robert Bolling's verses on the Norfolk Inoculation Riots of 1768-1769 / Robert D. Arner
Franklin's scientific ethics : exemplary rhetoric in the Autobiography / Robert D. Habich. Heroic drama for an uncertain age : the plays of Mercy Warren / Cheryl Z. Oreovicz
"Reserved for my pen" : John Davis's place in American literature / Jayne K. Kribbs
Authority and genealogy in Mason Locke Weems's Life of Washington / Paul Sorrentino