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Tables of Contents for The English Literatures of America, 1500-1800
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GENERAL INTRODUCTION
xvii
ONE: THE GLOBE AT 1500
3
36
Chapter 1. The Expansion of Europe
3
36
1. Marco Polo from The Travels of Marco Polo, c. 1298
7
1
2. Sir John Mandeville from The Travels of Sir John Mandeville, 1356
8
2
3. Niccolo Machiavelli from History of Florence, 1525
10
1
4. Christopher Columbus letter to the King and Queen of Castile (first voyage), 1493
11
6
5. Amerigo Vespucci letter to Pier Soderini, 1504
17
12
6. King Manuel I of Portugal letter to the King and Queen of Castile, 1499
29
1
7. Nahuatl accounts of the conquest of Mexico, 1528 and after
30
9
TWO: THE SIXTEENTH AND SEVENTEENTH CENTURIES
39
558
Chapter 2. Learning to Say "America" in English
39
62
1. from The Great Chronicle of London, 1502
42
1
2. the first printed account of America in English, 1511
43
1
3. Sir Thomas More from Utopia, 1516
44
3
4. John Rastell from A New Interlude and a Merry of the Nature of the Four Elements, 1519
47
2
5. Richard Eden from translation of Peter Martyr, 1555
49
2
6. John Sparke from The Voyage Made by Master John Hawkins, c. 1566
51
1
7. Lopez Vaz an account of Francis Drake, before 1586
52
2
8. George Best from A True Discourse, 1578
54
4
9. four views on plantation
58
5
Richard Hakluyt the elder, 1578
58
1
Christopher Carleill, 1583
59
1
Edward Hayes, 1583
60
2
Sir George Peckham, 1583
62
1
10. William Lightfoot from The Complaint of England, 1587
63
1
11. Thomas Hariot A Briefe and True Report of the New Found Land of Virginia, 1588
64
26
12. Richard Hakluyt the younger a 1536 case of English cannibalism, 1590
90
1
13. Sir Walter Ralegh from The Discovery of the Large, Rich and Bewtiful Empire of Guiana, 1596
91
4
14. Michel de Montaigne from "Of the Caniballes," 1580
95
1
15. Michel de Montaigne from "Of Coaches" (1580)
96
1
16. Francis Bacon "Of Plantations," 1625
97
3
17. Definition of "colony," from The Planter's Plea, 1630
100
1
Chapter 3. The English Diaspora
101
94
1. William Strachey from A True Reportory of the Wrack and Redemption of Sir Thomas Gates, Knight, 1610
104
4
2. John Smith et al. from A Map of Virginia, 1612
108
8
3. John Smith from A Description of New England, 1616
116
6
4. five letters from America
122
7
John Pory, 1619
122
1
Richard Frethorne, 1623
123
3
John Baldwin, 1623
126
1
George Calvert, 1629
127
1
Anonymous, 1631
128
1
5. Edward Waterhouse A Declaration of the State of the Colony in Virginia, 1622
129
17
6. John Smith from The Generall Historie of Virginia, 1624
146
3
7. The Tragical Relation of the Virginia Assembly, 1624
149
1
8. Francis Higginson journal of a voyage to New England, 1629
150
1
9. John Winthrop from "A Modell of Christian Charity," 1630
151
9
10. John Cotton from Gods Promise to His Plantations, 1630
160
1
11. Sir Henry Colt journal of a voyage to the West Indies, 1631
161
3
12. William Wood from New England's Prospect, 1634
164
4
13. Thomas Morton from New English Canaan, 1634
168
7
14. William Bradford another version of the maypole episode
175
1
15. William Bradford from Of Plymouth Plantation, 1630-50
176
16
16. from Mourt's Relation, 1622
192
1
17. Thomas Shepard a Nauset prophecy, 1648
193
1
18. George Fox an Indian prophecy, 1672
194
1
Chapter 4. Seventeenth-Century Anglo-America: Virginia and the Indies
195
110
1. James I from A Counter-Blaste to Tobacco, 1604
198
2
2. John Smith on tobacco, from the Generall Historie, 1624
200
1
3. Richard Ligon from A True and Exact History of the Island of Barbados, 1657
201
18
4. Richard Pinder from A Loving Invitation to Repentance and Amendment of Life, 1660
219
3
5. Anonymous Great News from the Barbadoes, 1676
222
2
6. two accounts of Bacon's Rebellion
224
9
Nathaniel Bacon, Manifesto, 1676
224
3
Robert Beverley, from History and Present State of Virginia, 1705
227
6
7. Aphra Behn The Widow Ranter; or the History of Bacon in Virginia, 1689
233
59
8. John Esquemeling from The Buccaneers of America, 1684
292
5
9. William Byrd I letter to Daniel Horsmanden, 1690
297
2
10. Ned (Edward) Ward from A Trip to Jamaica, 1698
299
6
Chapter 5. Seventeenth-Century Anglo-America: New England and Canada
305
124
1. John Winthrop from the journal, 1633-48
308
7
2. John Josselyn from the journal of a voyage to New England, 1639
315
1
3. [Thomas Shepard] a visit to John Eliot's Indian mission, 1646
316
2
4. John Eliot Indians and imps, 1652
318
1
5. Michael Wigglesworth from the diary, 1653-55
319
3
6. Anne Bradstreet "To My Dear Children," 1660s
322
3
7. Pierre-Esprit Radisson The Relation of my Voyage, being in Bondage in the Lands of the Irokoits, 1665
325
24
8. Mary Rowlandson The Soveraignty and Goodness of God, 1682
349
33
9. Samuel Sewall from the diary, 1692-1720
382
6
10. Richard Chamberlain Lithobolia; Or the Stone-Throwing Devil, 1698
388
12
11. Ned Ward from A Trip to New England, 1699
400
4
12. John Rogers, Jr. The Declaration and Confession of Esther Rodgers, 1701
404
4
13. Nicholas Noyes "An Essay Against Periwigs," c. 1702
408
7
14. Sarah Knight Journal, 1704-5
415
14
Chapter 6. Seventeenth-Century Anglo-America: The Trials of Puritanism
429
60
1. the Antinomian controversy
434
9
Ann Hutchinson, from The Examination of Mrs. Ann Hutchinson at the Court at Newtown, 1637
434
7
John Winthrop, from A Short Story of the Rise, Reigne, and Ruine of the Antinomians, Familists and Libertines, 1644
441
2
2. the Keayne controversy
443
4
John Winthrop from his journal, 1639
443
2
Robert Keayne from his will (Apologia), 1653
445
2
3. William Hooke from New-Englands Tears for Old-Englands Fears, 1640
447
2
4. John Winthrop speech to the General Court, 1645
449
2
5. Nathaniel Ward from The Simple Cobler of Aggawam in America, 1647
451
6
6. Richard Saltonstall letter to the Boston church, 1652
457
1
7. John Cotton reply to Saltonstall
458
3
8. Samuel Danforth A Brief Recognition of New-Englands Errand into the Wilderness, 1671
461
14
9. Deodat Lawson A Brief and True Narrative, 1692
475
7
10. Robert Calef from More Wonders of the Invisible World, 1700
482
7
Chapter 7. Science in America: The Seventeenth Century
489
38
1. John Wilkins from A Voyage of Discovery to the Moon, 1638
492
2
2. Roger Williams from A Key into the Language of America, 1643
494
4
3. John Josselyn from Two Voyages to New England, 1674
498
6
4. Increase Mather from Essay for the Recording of Remarkable Providences, 1684
504
14
5. Robert Boyle from Heads for the Natural History of a Country, 1692
518
3
6. three selections about smallpox
521
6
Thomas Thacher, A Brief Rule, 1678
521
4
Cotton Mather, letter to Hans Sloane, 1722
525
1
Benjamin Franklin, from the Autobiography, Part III, 1788
526
1
Chapter 8. Poetry: The Seventeenth Century
527
70
1. Edmund Spenser from The Faerie Queene, Book II, 1590
531
1
2. Robert Hayman verses on Newfoundland, 1628
532
1
3. Anonymous "A West Country Man's Voyage to New England," c. 1632
533
2
4. George Herbert from "The Church Militant," 1633
535
1
5. Anonymous "A Friendly Invitation to a New Plantation" ["The Zealous Puritan"], 1638
536
2
6. Anonymous "New England's Annoyances," c. 1642
538
3
7. from The Whole Booke of Psalmes Faithfully Translated into English Metre, 1640
541
2
8. Anonymous "Ah! Old Must Dye," 1645
543
1
9. Andrew Marvell "Bermudas," 1653
544
1
10. George Alsop
545
3
"The Author to his Book," 1666
545
2
"Trafique is Earth's great Atlas," 1666
547
1
11. Anne Bradstreet
548
15
"Prologue," 1650
548
2
"The Author to her Book"
550
1
"Contemplations"
551
8
"Upon the burning of our House"
559
2
"Before the Birth of one of her Children"
561
1
"To my Dear and loving Husband"
562
1
"A Letter to her Husband"
562
1
12. Michael Wigglesworth
563
16
"God's Controversy with New-England," 1662
563
13
"A Song of Emptiness"
576
3
13. John Milton from Paradise Lost, 1674
579
2
14. Edward Taylor
581
10
Sacramental Meditations, First Series: "Meditation One"
581
1
"The Reflexion"
582
1
"Meditation Eight"
583
1
"Meditation Thirty-Nine"
584
2
"Meditation Forty-Nine"
586
1
Sacramental Meditations, Second Series: "Meditation Seventy-Six"
587
1
"Upon a Spider Catching a Fly"
588
2
"Huswifery"
590
1
"The Ebb and Flow"
590
1
15. Henry Kelsey "Now Reader Read for I am well assur'd," 1693
591
6
THREE: THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY
597
516
Chapter 9. Religion in the Enlightenment
597
86
1. Jonathan Edwards [Of Being], 1721
601
4
2. Jonathan Edwards "Personal Narrative," c. 1739
605
11
3. Jonathan Edwards "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God," 1741
616
12
4. Jonathan Edwards "Concerning the Nature of the Will," from Freedom of the Will, 1754
628
3
5. Jonathan Edwards "Of Self-Love," from The Nature of True Virtue, 1755
631
8
6. David Brainerd from the journal, 1745
639
4
7. Samson Occom A Sermon Preached by Samson Occom, 1772
643
16
8. Elizabeth Ashbridge from Some Account of the Fore-Part of the Life of Elizabeth Ashbridge, 1774
659
9
9. Benjamin Franklin two revisions of Job
668
3
from the Pennsylvania Gazette, 1734
668
2
"The Levee," 1779
670
1
10. Benjamin Franklin letter to Ezra Stiles, 1790
671
2
11. Thomas Paine from The Age of Reason, 1794
673
10
Chapter 10. Histories
683
130
1. Joseph Addison The Spectator, No. 69, 1711
686
3
2. Daniel Defoe from Robinson Crusoe, 1719
689
8
3. Charles Brockden Brown "Robinson Crusoe," from The Literary Magazine, 1804
697
1
4. Jonathan Swift from Gulliver's Travels, 1726
698
1
5. William Byrd II from the History of the Dividing Line Betwixt Virginia and North Carolina and the Secret History, 1728
699
9
6. Dr. Alexander Hamilton from Itinerarium, 1744
708
4
7. Daniel Horsmanden from Journal of the Proceedings Against the Conspirators, at New York in 1741, 1744
712
4
8. Nathaniel Ames II "A Thought Upon the Past, Present, and Future of British America," 1758
716
2
9. newspaper advertisements for runaway slaves
718
1
10. Ukawsaw Gronniosaw (James Albert) from A Narrative of The Most Remarkable Particulars in the Life of James Albert Ukawsaw Gronniosaw, an African Prince, 1770
719
6
11. Benjamin Franklin Autobiography, Part I, 1771 from Part II, "The Art of Virtue," 1784
725
43
12. Peter Oliver from Origin and Progress of the American Rebellion, 1776
771
7
13. Edward Gibbon from Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, 1776
778
1
14. William Robertson from The History of America, 1777
779
2
15. John Filson The Adventures of Daniel Boon, 1784
781
11
16. Olaudah Equiano (Gustavus Vassa) from The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, 1789
792
6
17. Noah Webster "The Story of Columbus," from The Little Reader's Assistant, 1791
798
2
18. William Baylies the legend of Moiship, or Maushop, 1793
800
1
19. Stephen Burroughs from Memoirs of the Notorious Stephen Burroughs, 1798
801
12
Chapter 11. The Literature of Politics
813
88
1. Samuel Sewall The Selling of Joseph, 1700
817
4
2. John Saffin A Brief and Candid Answer, 1701
821
4
3. John Trenchard and Thomas Gordon Cato's Letters, no. 106, "Of plantations and colonies," 1722
825
5
4. William Livingston "Liberty of the Press," 1752
830
6
5. Thomas Pownall from The Administration of the Colonies of America, 1764
836
6
6. two popular broadsides
842
3
"To the printur of the Penselvaney Kronical," 1772
842
1
"The Sentiments of an American Woman," 1780
843
2
7. Benjamin Franklin "An Edict by the King of Prussia," 1773
845
4
8. Samuel Johnson from Taxation no Tyranny, 1775
849
1
9. Edmund Burke from Speech of Edmund Burke, Esq. on Moving His Resolutions for Conciliation with the Colonies, 1775
850
2
10. Abigail Adams letter to John Adams, 1776
852
2
11. Adam Smith from The Wealth of Nations, 1776
854
4
12. Thomas Jefferson A Declaration by the Representatives of the United States of America, 1776
858
5
13. Thomas Jefferson Notes on the State of Virginia, Query 19, 1781
863
2
14. Thomas Paine "An Occasional Letter on the Female Sex," 1775
865
3
15. Thomas Paine The American Crisis, #1, 1776
868
6
16. Judith Sargent Murray "On the Equality of the Sexes," 1779
874
6
17. Ottobah Cugoano (John Stuart) from Thoughts and Sentiments on the Evil and Wicked Traffic of the Slavery and Commerce of the Human Species, 1787
880
3
18. George Mason and James Madison from the Virginia ratification debate, 1788
883
2
19. James Madison The Federalist, #10, 1787
885
6
20. Benjamin Franklin "Sidi Mehemet Ibrahim on the Slave Trade," 1790
891
2
21. William Manning from The Key of Liberty, 1799
893
8
Chapter 12. Science in America: The Eighteenth Century
901
48
1. Cotton Mather from The Christian Philosopher, 1721
904
3
2. Jonathan Edwards letter on spiders, 1723
907
5
3. Jared Eliot from Essays Upon Field Husbandry in New England, 1760
912
3
4. Benjamin Franklin "Of Lightning," 1767
915
4
5. Thomas Jefferson from Notes on the State of Virginia, Query 6, 1781
919
20
6. William Bartram from Travels, 1791
939
10
Chapter 13. Belles Lettres
949
62
1. William Byrd II from the diaries, 1709-21
952
2
2. Richard Steele The Spectator, No. 11, 1711
954
4
3. Dr. Alexander Hamilton from The History of the Ancient and Honorable Tuesday Club, 1745-56
958
3
4. Benjamin Franklin "Speech of Miss Polly Baker," 1747
961
2
5. Benjamin Franklin "Father Abraham's Speech," 1758
963
6
6. Benjamin Franklin "The Ephemera," 1778
969
2
7. Thomas Jefferson Notes on the State of Virginia, Query 4, 1781
971
2
8. J. Hector St. John de Crevecoeur from Letters from an American Farmer, 1782
973
8
9. Benjamin Franklin "Remarks Concerning the Savages of North-America," 1783
981
5
10. "Alphonzo" from the American Magazine, 1787
986
1
11. Charles Brockden Brown and Thomas Jefferson two views of the novel question, 1798
987
2
12. Susannah Haswell Rowson from Charlotte Temple, 1794
989
1
13. Hannah Webster Foster from The Coquette, 1797
990
3
14. Charles Brockden Brown "A Receipt for a Modern Romance," 1798
993
1
15. Charles Brockden Brown "Remarks on Reading," 1806
994
6
16. Fisher Ames "American Literature," 1803
1000
11
Chapter 14. Poetry: The Eighteenth Century
1011
102
1. Ebenezer Cooke The Sot-Weed Factor, 1708
1014
18
2. Benjamin Tompson "A Neighbour's Tears Sprinkled on the Dust of the Amiable Virgin, Mrs. Rebekah Sewall," 1710
1032
2
3. Alexander Pope from "Windsor Forest," 1713
1034
2
4. Benjamin Franklin Silence Dogood No. 7, 1722
1036
4
5. three versions of Psalm 137
1040
4
Jane Colman Turell, 1725
1040
1
Lemuel Hopkins, 1785
1041
1
Timothy Dwight, 1800
1042
2
6. Richard Lewis "Food for Criticks," 1730
1044
4
7. Anonymous "The Cameleon Lover," 1732
1048
1
8. Anonymous "The Cameleon's Defence," 1732
1048
1
9. Joseph Green "The Poet's Lamentation for the Loss of his Cat, which he used to call his Muse," 1733
1049
1
10. Anonymous "The Lady's Complaint," 1736
1050
1
11. Lucy Terry "Bars Fight," c. 1746
1051
1
12. Charles Hansford from "My Country's Worth," 1752
1052
8
13. George Berkeley, Bishop of Cloyne "On the Prospect of Planting Arts and Learning in America," 1752
1060
1
14. John Dyer from The Fleece, 1757
1061
3
15. James Grainger from The Sugar-Cane, 1764
1064
6
16. Henry Timberlake "A Translation of the War-Song," from Memoirs of Lieutenant Henry Timberlake, 1765
1070
2
17. Milcah Martha Moore "The Female Patriots. Addressed to the Daughters of Liberty in America," 1768
1072
1
18. Mary Nelson "Forty Shillings Reward," 1769
1073
3
19. Phillis Wheatley
1076
5
"To the University of Cambridge, in New England," 1767
1076
1
"On Being Brought from Africa to America," 1768
1077
1
"On Recollection," 1771
1078
2
"To the Right Honorable William, Earl of Dartmouth," 1772
1080
1
20. Ned Botwood "Hot Stuff," 1759
1081
2
21. Anonymous "On the Snake Depicted at the Head of Some American Newspapers," 1774
1083
1
22. Hannah Griffitts "On Reading Some Paragraphs in `The Crisis,' April '77"
1084
1
23. Timothy Dwight "Columbia," 1777
1085
2
24. Anonymous from Jamaica, a Poem in Three Parts, 1777
1087
1
25. The Rector of St. John's, Nevis "The Field Negroe; or the Effect of Civilization," 1783
1088
4
26. Joseph Stansbury "To Cordelia," c. 1784
1092
2
27. Joel Barlow from The Vision of Columbus, 1787
1094
4
28. Annis Boudinot Stockton "Elegy on the Destruction of the Trees by the Icicles, Sunday and Monday of February the 17th and 18th, 1788"
1098
2
29. Elizabeth Graeme Fergusson "On the Mind's Being Engrossed by One Subject," 1789
1100
1
30. Sarah Wentworth Morton
1101
3
"Sonnet to the Full Summer Moon"
1101
1
"The African Chief," 1792
1102
2
31. Philip Freneau
1104
9
"On the Emigration to America and Peopling the Western Country," 1784
1104
2
"The Wild Honey Suckle," 1786
1106
1
"The Indian Burying Ground," 1788
1107
1
"Epistle to a Student of Dead Languages," 1795
1108
1
"The Drunkard's Apology," 1795
1109
1
"The Indian Convert," 1797
1109
1
"To the Americans of the United States," 1797
1110
3
INDEX
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