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The Open Anthology of Earlier American Literature

Is American literature defined by geographical boundaries? What is the difference between American literature and American history? How does the in-depth study of early American literature prompt us rethink representations of American culture today? In our global era, it is clear that past definitions of American literature must be revisited. This anthology moves to answer the question “what is American literature?” by framing the texts in new and provocative ways that fit the modern age.

Literature and Literacy Humanities

Author: Robin DeRosa, Abby Goode et al.
Publisher: Plymouth State University
Source: LibreTexts
License: CC BY-SA
Language: EN
Category: English

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Contents· 292 sections

01: Native American and Ethnographic Texts (2015)
1.01: Introduction (2015)
1.02: The Peyote Cult (Plains)
1.03: Of the Girl who Married Mount Katahdin (Penobscot)
1.04: How Glooskap went to England and France (Passamaquoddy)
1.05: The Origin of Disease and Medicine
1.06: Viracocha and The Coming of the Incas
1.07: The Magic Feather
1.08: The Island of Skeletons
02: Christopher Columbus
2.01: Introduction (2015)
2.02: Journal of the First Voyage to America 1492-1493 (Excerpt)
2.03: Narrative of the Third Voyage 1498-1500 (Excerpt)
03: Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca
3.01: Introduction (2015)
3.02: Prologue
3.03: Chapter VII- The Character of the Country (Excerpt)
3.04: Chapter VIII- We Go from Aute (Excerpt)
3.05: Chapter X- The Assault from the Indians (Excerpt)
3.06: Chapter XII- The Indians Bring Us Food (Excerpt)
3.07: Chapter XXI- Our Cure of Some of the Afflicted
3.08: Chapter XXIV- Customs of the Indians of That Country (Excerpt)
3.09: Chapter XXXII- The Indians Give Us the Hearts of Deer (Excerpt)
3.10: Chapter XXXIII- We See Traces of Christians (Excerpt)
3.11: Chapter XXXIV- Of Sending for the Christians (Excerpt)
04: The Requerimiento
4.01: Requerimiento
05: The Pueblo Revolt of 1680
5.01: Introduction (2015)
5.02: Letter on the Pueblo Revolt
5.03: HOW THE SPANIARDS CAME TO SHUNG-OPOVI HOW THEY BUILT A MISSION AND HOW THE HOPI DESTROYED THE MISSION
06: William Bradford
6.01: Anno Dom- 1628 (Excerpt)
6.02: Anno Dom- 1637 (Excerpt)
6.03: Anno Dom- 1623
6.04: Preface
6.05: Chapter 9- Of their voyage and how they passed the sea and of their safe arrival at Cape Cod
6.06: The remainder of Anno 1620 (Excerpt)
6.07: Anno Dom- 1642
07: Thomas Morton
7.01: New English Canaan (Excerpt)
08: Anne Bradstreet
8.01: Introduction (2015)
8.02: The Prologue
8.03: The Author to Her Book
8.04: The Flesh and the Spirit
8.05: In Honour of the High and Mighty Princess Queen Elizabeth
8.06: Letter- To My Dear Children
09: Mary Rowlandson
9.01: The First Remove
9.02: The Second Remove
9.03: The Third Remove
9.04: The Fifth Remove
9.05: The Eighth Remove
9.06: The Twelfth Remove
9.07: The Thirteenth Remove (Excerpt)
9.08: The Eighteenth Remove
9.09: The Twentieth Remove (Excerpt)
9.10: Watch the Point of View
9.11: The Role of Religion in the Colonial Encounter
9.12: Perspective of One-Eyed John from the First Remove.
9.13: Those Monsters
9.14: A Guilty Victim
9.15: How to Get Away with Genocide
9.16: Colonial Enfrownters And How to Survive One
9.17: The Other Side of It
9.18: Paint with All the Colors of Perspective
9.19: The Contorted Colonial Encounter
9.20: Exposing Yourself Whilst Trying To Expose Others
10: Cotton Mather
10.01: Wonders of the Invisible World- The Authors Defence
10.02: Wonders of the Invisible World- The Trial of Martha Carrier at the Court of Oyer and Terminer Salem August 2 1692
10.03: Decennium Luctuosum- An History of Remarkable Occurrences in the Long War
11: Jonathan Edwards
11.01: Introduction (2015)
11.02: Personal Narrative (Excerpt)
11.03: Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God (Excerpt)
11.04: Sarah Pierrepont Edwards on Conversion
12: Thomas Paine
12.01: A Short Video About Thomas Paine
12.02: Introduction (2015)
12.03: Common Sense (Excerpt)
12.04: The Age of Reason (Excerpt)
13: Thomas Jefferson
13.01: Introduction (2015)
13.02: Notes on the State of Virginia (Excerpt)
13.03: Letter to Nathaniel Burwell
14: Toussaint LOuverture
14.01: Introductory Video
14.02: Toussaints Constitution (Excerpt)
15: Briton Hammon
15.01: A Narrative of the Uncommon Sufferings and Surprizing Deliverance of Briton Hammon a Negro Man
16: Prince Hall
16.01: Introduction (2015)
16.02: A Charge Delivered to the African Lodge
17: Phillis Wheatley
17.01: On Being Brought from Africa to America
18: Judith Sargent Murray
18.01: On the Equality of the Sexes
18.02: Desultory Thoughts Upon the Utility of encouraging a degree of Self-Complacency especially in Female Bosoms
19: Susanna Rowson
19.01: Charlotte Temple- Volume I
19.02: Charlotte Temple- Volume II
20: Uriah Derick DArcy
20.01: The Black Vampyre- A Legend of St. Domingo (1819)
20.02: Sucking the Meaning Out of The Black Vampyre (Group Anthology Contribution 2019)
20.03: The World is a Vampire
20.04: What Cannot be Escaped in Death- Racism and Immortality
20.05: Food and Sustenance in Early Gothic American Literature
20.06: The Black Vampire Critiques Human Nature
20.07: The Black Vampyre is Gothic Big Surprise Right
21: Washington Irving
21.01: Introduction (2017)
21.02: Introduction (2016)
21.03: Rip Van Winkle
21.04: Rip Van Winkle- A Feminist Battle Cry
22: Edgar Allan Poe
22.01: Introduction to Edgar Allan Poe (2015)
22.02: The Black Cat
22.03: The Murders in the Rue Morgue
22.04: Deviance in Edgar Allan Poe and American Literature (Group contribution 2019)
22.05: Introduction to The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket (1838) (2017)
22.06: Introduction to The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket (1838) (2016)
22.07: The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket (1838)
22.08: Poe and King sitting on a throne of skulls
22.09: Poe Was Likely Inspired By Mary Shelley
22.10: Arthur Gordon Pym Cannibal of Nantucket
22.11: Ultimate Destroyer
22.12: Of Freedom Shipwrecks and Intersectionality
23: Nathaniel Hawthorne
23.01: Introduction (2015)
23.02: The Ministers Black Veil
23.03: Young Goodman Brown
24: Henry David Thoreau
24.01: Introduction (2016)
24.02: Where I Lived and What I Lived For from Walden
25: Ralph Waldo Emerson
25.01: A Look Into Transcendentalism (Group Anthology Contribution 2019)
25.02: Introduction (2017)
25.03: Introduction (2016)
25.04: Self-Reliance (1841)
25.05: Double-Edged Pen
26: Herman Melville
26.01: Introduction (2017)
26.02: Introduction (2016)
26.03: The Pursuit of Personal Freedom from Normative Labeling (Group Anthology Contribution 2019)
26.04: Benito Cereno
26.05: Stupid Benito Cereno
26.06: American Excep(ship)alism
26.07: Inception of the Human Heart in Melvilles Benito Cereno
26.08: O Captain My Captain
26.09: America Isnt All That Great- As Told by Herman Melville
26.10: Moving Beyond the Nation- A Revolution
26.11: Changing With the Tide- The American Perspective
26.12: The Indirect and Direct Transformation of White Characters
27: Frederick Douglass
27.01: Introduction (2017)
27.02: A Free Country- Irony in The Heroic Slave (Group contribution 2019)
27.03: The Heroic Slave (1852)
27.04: The Sneaky African (Babo) Versus the Herculean African (Madison Washington)
27.05: In Da kitchen with Freddy D and Ya Boi Melville Sweet vs. Spicy
27.06: Douglass- Heroic or Cowardly
27.07: His Head Was with His Heart and that was Far Away
27.08: Fight the Power By Supporting It
27.09: Its All About Who Writes It
27.10: Frederick Douglass- A Breath of Fresh Air
27.11: Finally a Person
27.12: Evil Versus Good- A Difference in Slave Characters
27.13: Humanitys Enjoyment of Sectioning
27.14: Slaves Humans OK
27.15: A Pill to Swallow
27.16: The Hero and the Villain
27.17: Exploring Madisons Journey to Freedom and Heroism
27.18: Intentions Left UnsaidTo An Extent
27.19: Melville Versus Douglass- The Trickster against the Sympathetic Heart
27.20: Nature-Men
27.21: Douglass Melville
27.22: Urgency and Lack Thereof
28: Walt Whitman
28.01: Introduction (2017)
28.02: Song of Myself
28.03: The Song is of Yourself but Who Are You Singing To
28.04: Lesson Plan for Walt Whitmans Song of Myself (Group Anthology Contribution 2019)
29: Harriet Beecher Stowe
29.01: Introduction (2017)
29.02: Introduction (2016)
29.03: Uncle Toms Cabin (Chapters 1-3 7)
29.04: Lesson Plan for Harriet Beecher Stowes Uncle Toms Cabin (Group Anthology Contribution 2019)
29.05: When Sympathy Goes Beyond the Pages
29.06: All The Slave Texts Thus Far
29.07: Slaves Are Human TooWhen They Act White and Look Attractive
29.08: Untitled
29.09: How to Depict a Black Character by Depicting Them as Not all Black
29.10: Uncle Toms Cabin versus Benito Cereno versus The Heroic Slave
29.11: Hot People Are White-Looking and Good Ugly People Are Evil
29.12: Using Religion to Internalize Whiteness
29.13: Stowe was White
29.14: The Depiction of Race in Uncle Toms Cabin
29.15: The Mother The Father and the Holy American Man
29.16: The Book That Started the Civil War
29.17: Things To Stop Romanticizing- The Stranger Things Kids and 19th-Century Slaves
29.18: Gentle Giants
29.19: Uncle Toms Cabin- The Good The Bad and the Ugly
29.20: Racisms Prevalence in Early American Literature
30: Harriet Jacobs
30.01: Introduction (2017)
30.02: Introduction (2016)
30.03: Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
30.04: Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl Biography and Chapter 11-22 Critical Questions
30.05: Further Reading for Scholarly Works of Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (Group Anthology Contribution 2019)
31: Mark Twain
31.01: Introduction (2015)
31.02: The Man that Corrupted Hadleyburg
31.03: The One Million Pound Banknote
32: Where is American Literature Now- Contemporary Connections
32.01: Where is American Literature Now- Nuclear War Cyber-Attacks and Still Fighting With the Natives
32.02: Uncanny Parallels in Steven Universe
32.03: Does Twitter Poetry Count as American Literature
32.04: American Literature- Helping Queer Kids Figure Themselves Out Since 1855
32.05: We are still making America let alone making it great
32.06: I can do ityou can too
32.07: The Tradition
32.08: Its Always Sunny in America
32.09: The (Super)Heroic (Time Travelers posing as) Slave(s)
32.10: The Theme of Rearticulation
32.11: Black Motherhood The Desire For Family and Black Heritage
33: Earlier American Literature in Music
33.01: WAV Files a Contemporary Piece of Early American Literature
33.02: American Literature in American Music
33.03: Thank u Emerson
33.04: My Diligence is Only Meant to Write Your Eulogy
33.05: Why is this America
33.06: That Word is Only a Color
33.07: This land is your land
33.08: Re-share Re-view Recycle- How Early American Themes Reappear in Modern Texts
33.09: Where is American Literature Today- The Answer Might Surprise You
34: Earlier American Literature in Film
34.01: You Cant Hide Whats In Your Heart
34.02: Patrick Batemen is Ralph Waldo Emerson
34.03: GTFO
34.04: Its Time to Get Out Your Antiquated Views on Race
34.05: Twelve Yearsin the Life of a Slave Girl
34.06: Im Not the Right Person to Be Talking About This
34.07: Life Imitates Artor Art Imitates Life
34.08: Madison Unchained
34.09: Into Self-Reliance
34.10: Down the Rabbit Hole
34.11: The Self-Reliant Baby Driver (Spoiler Alert) Where is American Literature Now
34.12: Avatar is just Pocahontas with Blue People in Space
34.13: SHOOK- Django is Madison Washington.. with a trigger happy finger.
34.14: Why Does it ALWAYS Take a White Character to be Able to Save those of Color
34.15: Wakanda Forever
34.16: Equality I dont think so.
34.17: The H8teful 8
34.18: The Culture With The Attention Span Of A Goldfish
34.19: Harriet Jacobs and William Peter Blatty- Interpretations of Slavery Maternity and Weaponized Religion
34.20: American Literature Today
34.21: Technologys Impact on Literature
34.22: The Dance of American Literature
35: The Female American (1767) Supplementary Readings
35.01: The Princess War- A Feminist Saga
35.02: Feminism in The Female American
35.03: Feminism Displayed in The Female American Through The Crazy Ex
35.04: Hell Hath No Fury Like a Woman Scorned
35.05: My Religion is Better than Yours
35.06: Call My Agent Disneys Got a New Movie to Make
35.07: The Female American Anti-Bibliomancy
35.08: The Inverse of Power Between Worlds
35.09: Native American or Classical Painting
35.10: And God Said Oops
35.11: Unca- Gender will not be my weakness
35.12: A Relationship that Reflected the World Around Them
35.13: The Sun and The God
35.14: Religion- Saying Yes to the Colonial Encounter
35.15: Unca is the Scientist of Her Own Experiment
35.16: To All Resilient Young Women
35.17: Raiding Capturing and Slaughtering in the Name of God
35.18: Religion as Comfort Versus Religion as Justification
36: Letters from an American Farmer (1767) Supplementary Readings
36.01: An Unstable Identity- The White American Man
36.02: America- Utopia or Dystopia
36.03: The Naive and Delusional Farmer
36.04: Men Are Like Plants Theyre Weak
36.05: Proud to be an American Where at Least I Know Im Part of an Industry
36.06: He Should Have Worked for Real Estate
36.07: J. Hector St. John de Crevecoeur- National Hero or Portrayal of White Guilt
36.08: Live Long and Industrialize Unless Youre a Slave Then Its Highly Improbable That Will Happen.
36.09: Who You Calling a Plant
36.10: For Sale- America Get It Now
36.11: America the Great
36.12: Beautifulish Americans
36.13: Come To America Wait No Not THAT Part And Ignore the European Qualities