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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.

Literature and LiteracyHumanities
Author
Wendy Kurant
Publisher
University of North Georgia
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Contents· 293 sections
  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