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Becoming America - An Exploration of American Literature from Precolonial to Post-Revolution

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Becoming America - An Exploration of American Literature from Precolonial to Post-Revolution

The University of North Georgia Press and Affordable Learning Georgia bring you Becoming America: An Exploration of American Literature from Precolonial to Post-Revolution. Featuring sixty-nine authors and full texts of their works, the selections in this open anthology represent the diverse voices in early American literature. This completely-open anthology will connect students to the conversation of literature that is embedded in American history and has helped shaped its culture.

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Wendy Kurant
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University of North Georgia
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  1. 01: Pre- and Early Colonial Literature
  2. 1.01: Introduction
  3. 1.1.01: Native American Accounts
  4. 1.1.02: European Exploration Accounts
  5. 1.02: Native American
  6. 1.2.01: Creation Story (Haudenosaunee (Iroquois))
  7. 1.2.02: How the World Was Made (Cherokee)
  8. 1.2.03: Talk Concerning the First Beginning (Zuni)
  9. 1.2.04: From the Winnebago Trickster Cycle
  10. 1.2.05: Origin of Disease and Medicine (Cherokee)
  11. 1.2.06: Thanksgiving Address (Haudenosaunee (Iroquois))
  12. 1.2.07: The Arrival of the Whites (Lenape (Delaware))
  13. 1.2.08: The Coming of the Whiteman Revealed - Dream of the White Robe and Floating Island (Micmac)
  14. 1.2.09: Reading and Review Questions
  15. 1.03: Christopher Columbus (14511506)
  16. 1.3.01: Letter of Discovery (1493)
  17. 1.3.02: Reading and Review Questions
  18. 1.04: Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca (c. 14901558)
  19. 1.4.01: From The Relation of Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca (1542)
  20. 1.4.02: Reading and Review Questions
  21. 1.05: Thomas Harriot (15601621)
  22. 1.5.01: From A Briefe and True Report of the New Found Land of Virginia (1588)
  23. 1.5.02: Reading and Review Questions
  24. 1.06: Samuel de Champlain (c. 15701635)
  25. 1.6.01: From The Voyages and Explorations of Sieur de Champlain (1613)
  26. 1.6.02: Reading and Review Questions
  27. 1.07: John Smith (15801657)
  28. 1.7.01: From The Generall Historie of Virginia New-England and the Summer Isles (1624)
  29. 1.7.02: Reading and Review Questions
  30. 1.08: Adriaen van der Donck (16181655)
  31. 1.8.01: From A Description of New Netherland the Country
  32. 1.8.02: Reading and Review Questions
  33. 02: Seventeenth Century English
  34. 2.01: Introduction
  35. 2.02: William Bradford (15901657)
  36. 2.2.01: Of Plymouth Plantation (16201647)
  37. 2.2.02: Reading and Review Questions
  38. 2.03: John Winthrop (15881649)
  39. 2.3.01: A Model of Christian Charity (1630)
  40. 2.3.02: Reading and Review Questions
  41. 2.04: Roger Williams (c. 16031683)
  42. 2.4.01: Christenings Make Not Christians
  43. 2.4.02: Reading and Review Questions
  44. 2.05: Cecil Calvert and Lord Baltemore (16051675)
  45. 2.5.01: From A Relation of the Lord Baltemores Plantation in Maryland
  46. 2.5.02: Reading and Review Questions
  47. 2.06: Anne Bradstreet (16121672)
  48. 2.6.01: The Prologue
  49. 2.6.02: The Author to Her Book
  50. 2.6.03: To My Dear and Loving Husband
  51. 2.6.04: Contemplations
  52. 2.6.05: Here Follows Some Verses upon the Burning of Our House
  53. 2.6.06: In Memory of My Dear Grandchild Elizabeth Bradstreet
  54. 2.6.07: In Memory of My Dear Grandchild Anne Bradstreet
  55. 2.6.08: On My Dear Grandchild Simon Bradstreet
  56. 2.6.09: Reading and Review Questions
  57. 2.07: Michael Wigglesworth (16311705)
  58. 2.7.01: The Day of Doom Or A Description of the Great and Last Judgment (1662)
  59. 2.7.02: Reading and Review Questions
  60. 2.08: Mary Rowlandson (c. 16371711)
  61. 2.8.01: From The Captivity and Restoration of Mary Rowlandson (1682)
  62. 2.8.02: Reading and Review Questions
  63. 2.09: Edward Taylor (c. 16421729)
  64. 2.9.01: Prologue to Preparatory Meditations
  65. 2.9.02: Preface to Gods Determination
  66. 2.9.03: Meditation 8 (First Series)
  67. 2.9.04: Medication 32 (First Series)
  68. 2.9.05: A Fig for Thee O Death
  69. 2.9.06: Upon Wedlock and Death of Children
  70. 2.9.07: Reading and Review Questions
  71. 2.10: Samuel Sewall (16521730)
  72. 2.10.01: The Selling of Joseph- A Memorial (1700)
  73. 2.10.02: Reading and Review Questions
  74. 2.11: Gabriel Thomas (16611714)
  75. 2.11.01: From An Historical and Geographical Account of the Province and Country of Pensilvania and of West-NewJersey in America
  76. 2.11.02: Reading and Review Questions
  77. 2.12: John Norris (unknown)
  78. 2.12.01: From Profitable Advice for Rich and Poor (1712)
  79. 2.12.02: Reading and Review Questions
  80. 03: Revolutionary and Early National Period Literature
  81. 3.01: Introduction
  82. 3.02: Jonathan Edwards (17031758)
  83. 3.2.01: Personal Narrative (1765)
  84. 3.2.02: Reading and Review Questions
  85. 3.03: Benjamin Franklin (17061790)
  86. 3.3.01: The Way to Wealth (1758)
  87. 3.3.02: An Edict by the King of Prussia (1773)
  88. 3.3.03: Rules by Which a Great Empire May Be Reduced to a Small One (1773)
  89. 3.3.04: The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin (1789)
  90. 3.3.05: Reading and Review Questions
  91. 3.04: Samson Occom (17231792)
  92. 3.4.01: A Short Narrative of My Life
  93. 3.4.02: Reading and Review Questions
  94. 3.05: J. Hector St. John de Crevecoeur (17351813)
  95. 3.5.01: From Letters from an American Farmer (1782)
  96. 3.5.02: Reading and Review Questions
  97. 3.06: John Adams and Abigail Adams (17351826) and (17441818)
  98. 3.6.01: From Familiar Letters of John Adams and his Wife Abigail Adams During the Revolution
  99. 3.6.02: Reading and Review Questions
  100. 3.07: Thomas Paine (17371826)
  101. 3.7.01: Common Sense (1776)
  102. 3.7.02: Reading and Review Questions
  103. 3.08: Thomas Jefferson (17431826)
  104. 3.8.01: From Notes on the State of Virginia (1785)
  105. 3.8.02: Autobiography of Thomas Jefferson (1821)
  106. 3.8.03: Reading and Review Questions
  107. 3.09: The Federalist (1788)
  108. 3.9.01: Federalist 1
  109. 3.9.02: Federalist 10
  110. 3.9.03: Reading and Review Questions
  111. 3.10: Olaudah Equiano (c. 17451797)
  112. 3.10.01: From The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano- Or Gustavus Vassa the African Written by Himself (1789)
  113. 3.10.02: Reading and Review Questions
  114. 3.11: Judith Sargent Murray (17511820)
  115. 3.11.01: On the Equality of the Sexes (1790)
  116. 3.11.02: Reading and Review Questions
  117. 3.12: Philip Freneau (17521832)
  118. 3.12.01: To Sir Toby (1795)
  119. 3.12.02: The Indian Burying Ground (1788)
  120. 3.12.03: On Mr. Paines Rights of Man (1795)
  121. 3.12.04: A Political Litany (1775)
  122. 3.12.05: Reading and Review Questions
  123. 3.13: Phillis Wheatley (c. 17531784)
  124. 3.13.01: On Being Brought from Africa to America (1773)
  125. 3.13.02: To the Right Honorable William Earl of Dartmouth (1773)
  126. 3.13.03: On the Death of Rev. Mr. George Whitefield. 1770 (1771 1773)
  127. 3.13.04: To S. M. a Young African Painter on Seeing his Works (1773)
  128. 3.13.05: Letter to Rev. Samson Occom (1773)
  129. 3.13.06: Reading and Review Questions
  130. 3.14: Royall Tyler (17571826)
  131. 3.14.01: The Contrast (1787)
  132. 3.14.02: Reading and Review Questions
  133. 3.15: Hannah Webster Foster (17581840)
  134. 3.15.01: From The Coquette- Or the History of Eliza Wharton (1797)
  135. 3.15.02: Reading and Review Questions
  136. 3.16: Tecumseh (17681813)
  137. 3.16.01: Speech to the Osages (1811 published 1823)
  138. 3.16.02: Reading and Review Questions
  139. 3.17: Cherokee Women
  140. 3.17.01: Cherokee Indian Women To Pres. Benjamin Franklin September 8 1787
  141. 3.17.02: Reading and Review Questions
  142. 3.18: Charles Brockden Brown (17711810)
  143. 3.18.01: Memoirs of Carwin the Biloquist (1805)
  144. 3.18.02: Reading and Review Questions
  145. 04: Nineteenth Century Romanticism and Transcendentalism
  146. 4.01: Introduction
  147. 4.02: Washington Irving (17831859)
  148. 4.2.01: From The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon Gent. (1820)
  149. 4.2.02: Reading and Review Questions
  150. 4.03: James Fenimore Cooper (17891851)
  151. 4.3.01: The Pioneers (1823)
  152. 4.3.02: Reading and Review Questions
  153. 4.04: Catharine Maria Sedgwick (17891867)
  154. 4.4.01: From Hope Leslie
  155. 4.4.02: Reading and Review Questions
  156. 4.05: Lydia Howard Huntley Sigourney (17911865)
  157. 4.5.01: To the First Slave Ship (1827)
  158. 4.5.02: Indian Names (1834)
  159. 4.5.03: Our Aborigines (1838)
  160. 4.5.04: Fallen Forests (1854)
  161. 4.5.05: Reading and Review Questions
  162. 4.06: William Cullen Bryant (17941878)
  163. 4.6.01: Thanatopsis (1817)
  164. 4.6.02: To a Waterfowl (1815)
  165. 4.6.03: The Prairies (1833)
  166. 4.6.04: Reading and Review Questions
  167. 4.07: David Walker (c. 17961830)
  168. 4.7.01: An Appeal to the Colored Citizens of the World (1829)
  169. 4.7.02: Reading and Review Questions
  170. 4.08: William Apess (17981839)
  171. 4.8.01: An Indians Looking-Glass for the White Man
  172. 4.8.02: Reading and Review Questions
  173. 4.09: Jane Johnston Schoolcraft (18001842)
  174. 4.9.01: Mishosha or the Magician and his Daughters (1827)
  175. 4.9.02: Reading and Review Questions
  176. 4.10: Ralph Waldo Emerson (18031882)
  177. 4.10.01: The American Scholar (1837)
  178. 4.10.02: The Divinity School Address (1838)
  179. 4.10.03: Self-Reliance (1841)
  180. 4.10.04: Experience (1844)
  181. 4.10.05: Merlin (1837)
  182. 4.10.06: Hamatreya (1846)
  183. 4.10.07: Brahma (1857)
  184. 4.10.08: Reading and Review Questions
  185. 4.11: Lydia Maria Child (18021880)
  186. 4.11.01: The Quadroons (1842)
  187. 4.11.02: Reading and Review Questions
  188. 4.12: Nathaniel Hawthorne (18041846)
  189. 4.12.01: My Kinsman Major Molineux (1832)
  190. 4.12.02: The Ministers Black Veil (1832)
  191. 4.12.03: Young Goodman Brown (1835)
  192. 4.12.04: The Birth-Mark (1843)
  193. 4.12.05: Rappaccinis Daughter (1844)
  194. 4.12.06: Reading and Review Questions
  195. 4.13: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (18071882)
  196. 4.13.01: A Psalm of Life (1839)
  197. 4.13.02: The Jewish Cemetery at Newport (1858)
  198. 4.13.03: My Lost Youth (1858)
  199. 4.13.04: Reading and Review Questions
  200. 4.14: John Greenleaf Whittier (18071892)
  201. 4.14.01: The Hunters of Men (1835)
  202. 4.14.02: The Farewell (1838)
  203. 4.14.03: Reading and Review Questions
  204. 4.15: Edgar Allan Poe (18091849)
  205. 4.15.01: SonnetTo Science (1829)
  206. 4.15.02: The Raven (1845)
  207. 4.15.03: Annabel Lee (1849)
  208. 4.15.04: Ligeia (1838)
  209. 4.15.05: The Fall of the House of Usher
  210. 4.15.06: The Tell-Tale Heart (1843)
  211. 4.15.07: The Purloined Letter (1844)
  212. 4.15.08: The Cask of Amontillado (1846)
  213. 4.15.09: Reading and Review Questions
  214. 4.16: Margaret Fuller (18101850)
  215. 4.16.01: The Great Lawsuit- Man versus Men Woman versus Women (1843)
  216. 4.16.02: Reading and Review Questions
  217. 4.17: Harriet Beecher Stowe (18111886)
  218. 4.17.01: Uncle Toms Cabin (1852)
  219. 4.17.02: Reading and Review Questions
  220. 4.18: Fanny Fern (Sara Willis Parton) (18111872)
  221. 4.18.01: Male Criticism on Ladies Books (1857)
  222. 4.18.02: Hints to Young Wives (1852)
  223. 4.18.03: Reading and Review Questions
  224. 4.19: Harriet Jacobs (c. 18131897)
  225. 4.19.01: Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (1861)
  226. 4.19.02: Reading and Review Questions
  227. 4.20: Henry David Thoreau (18171862)
  228. 4.20.01: Resistance to Civil Government (1849)
  229. 4.20.02: From Walden or Life in the Woods (1854)
  230. 4.20.03: Reading and Review Questions
  231. 4.21: Frederick Douglass (18181895)
  232. 4.21.01: Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass an American Slave Written by Himself (1845)
  233. 4.21.02: Reading and Review Questions
  234. 4.22: Herman Melville
  235. 4.22.01: Bartleby the Scrivener (1853)
  236. 4.22.02: Benito Cereno (1855)
  237. 4.22.03: The Paradise of Bachelors and the Tartarus of Maids (1855)
  238. 4.22.04: The Portent (1859)
  239. 4.22.05: A Utilitarian View of the Monitor Fight (1866)
  240. 4.22.06: Shiloh- A Requiem (1862)
  241. 4.22.07: Reading and Review Questions
  242. 4.23: Walt Whitman (1819 1892)
  243. 4.23.01: Song of Myself (1855)
  244. 4.23.02: Crossing Brooklyn Ferry (1856)
  245. 4.23.03: When I Heard the Learnd Astronomer (1867)
  246. 4.23.04: Vigil Strange I Kept on the Field One Night (1865)
  247. 4.23.05: The Wound-Dresser (1865)
  248. 4.23.06: Reconciliation (1867)
  249. 4.23.07: When Lilies Last in Dooryard Bloomd (1865)
  250. 4.23.08: Reading and Review Questions
  251. 4.24: Frances Ellen Watkins Harper (18251911)
  252. 4.24.01: The Slave Mother (1854)
  253. 4.24.02: Learning to Read
  254. 4.24.03: Ethiopia (1854)
  255. 4.24.04: Reading and Review Questions
  256. 4.25: Emily Dickinson (18301886)
  257. 4.25.01: 341 (Tis so appalling it exhilarates)
  258. 4.25.02: 348 (I would not paint a picture)
  259. 4.25.03: 353 (Im ceded Ive stopped being Theirs)
  260. 4.25.04: 355 (It was not Death for I stood up)
  261. 4.25.05: 359 (A Bird came down the Walk)
  262. 4.25.06: 372 (After great pain a formal feeling comes )
  263. 4.25.07: 381 (I cannot dance upon my Toes)
  264. 4.25.08: 407 (One need not be a Chamber to be Haunted)
  265. 4.25.09: 409 (The Soul selects her own Society)
  266. 4.25.10: 466 (I dwell in Possibility)
  267. 4.25.11: 122 (These are the days when Birds come back)
  268. 4.25.12: 479 (Because I could not stop for Death)
  269. 4.25.13: 519 (this is my letter to the World)
  270. 4.25.14: 598 (The Brain is wider than the Sky)
  271. 4.25.15: 620 (Much Madness is divinest Sense)
  272. 4.25.16: 656 (I started Early Took my Dog)
  273. 4.25.17: 675 (What soft Cherubic Creatures)
  274. 4.25.18: 764 (My Life had stood a Loaded Gun )
  275. 4.25.19: 857 (She rose to His Requirement dropt)
  276. 4.25.20: 1096 (A narrow Fellow in the Grass)
  277. 4.25.21: 1263 (Tell all the truth but tell it slant)
  278. 4.25.22: 194 (Title divine is mine)
  279. 4.25.23: 1773 (My life closed twice before its close)
  280. 4.25.24: 207 (I taste a liquor never brewed)
  281. 4.25.25: 225 (Im wife Ive finished that)
  282. 4.25.26: 236 (Some keep the Sabbath going to Church)
  283. 4.25.27: 260 (Im Nobody Who are you)
  284. 4.25.28: 269 (Wild nights Wild nights)
  285. 4.25.29: 320 (Theres a certain Slant of light)
  286. 4.25.30: 340 (I felt a Funeral in my Brain)
  287. 4.25.31: Reading and Review Questions
  288. 4.26: Rebecca Harding Davis (18311910)
  289. 4.26.01: Life in the Iron Mills (1861)
  290. 4.26.02: Reading and Review Questions
  291. 4.27: Louisa May Alcott (18321888)
  292. 4.27.01: My Contraband (1863)
  293. 4.27.02: Reading and Review Questions