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The Open Anthology of Earlier American Literature

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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.

Humanities
Author
Kristen O'Dell Brumfield
Publisher
Onondaga Community College
Source
LibreTexts
License
CC BY-SA
Language
EN
Category
English
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Contents· 230 sections
  1. 01: Native American and Ethnographic Texts (2015)
  2. 1.01: Introduction (2015)
  3. 1.02: The Peyote Cult (Plains)
  4. 1.03: Of the Girl who Married Mount Katahdin (Penobscot)
  5. 1.04: How Glooskap went to England and France (Passamaquoddy)
  6. 1.05: The Origin of Disease and Medicine
  7. 1.06: Viracocha and The Coming of the Incas
  8. 1.07: The Magic Feather
  9. 1.08: The Island of Skeletons
  10. 02: Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca
  11. 2.01: Introduction (2015)
  12. 2.02: Prologue
  13. 2.03: Chapter VII- The Character of the Country (Excerpt)
  14. 2.04: Chapter VIII- We Go from Aute (Excerpt)
  15. 2.05: Chapter X- The Assault from the Indians (Excerpt)
  16. 2.06: Chapter XII- The Indians Bring Us Food (Excerpt)
  17. 2.07: Chapter XXI- Our Cure of Some of the Afflicted
  18. 2.08: Chapter XXIV- Customs of the Indians of That Country (Excerpt)
  19. 2.09: Chapter XXXII- The Indians Give Us the Hearts of Deer (Excerpt)
  20. 2.10: Chapter XXXIII- We See Traces of Christians (Excerpt)
  21. 2.11: Chapter XXXIV- Of Sending for the Christians (Excerpt)
  22. 03: Anne Bradstreet
  23. 3.01: Introduction (2015)
  24. 3.02: The Prologue
  25. 3.03: The Author to Her Book
  26. 3.04: The Flesh and the Spirit
  27. 3.05: In Honour of the High and Mighty Princess Queen Elizabeth
  28. 3.06: Letter- To My Dear Children
  29. 04: Phillis Wheatley
  30. 4.01: On Being Brought from Africa to America
  31. 05: Washington Irving
  32. 5.01: Introduction (2017)
  33. 5.02: Introduction (2016)
  34. 5.03: Rip Van Winkle
  35. 5.04: Rip Van Winkle- A Feminist Battle Cry
  36. 06: Edgar Allan Poe
  37. 6.01: Introduction to Edgar Allan Poe (2015)
  38. 6.02: The Black Cat
  39. 6.03: The Murders in the Rue Morgue
  40. 6.04: Deviance in Edgar Allan Poe and American Literature (Group contribution 2019)
  41. 6.05: Introduction to The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket (1838) (2017)
  42. 6.06: Introduction to The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket (1838) (2016)
  43. 6.07: The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket (1838)
  44. 6.08: Poe and King sitting on a throne of skulls
  45. 6.09: Poe Was Likely Inspired By Mary Shelley
  46. 6.10: Arthur Gordon Pym Cannibal of Nantucket
  47. 6.11: Ultimate Destroyer
  48. 6.12: Of Freedom Shipwrecks and Intersectionality
  49. 07: Nathaniel Hawthorne
  50. 7.01: Introduction (2015)
  51. 7.02: The Ministers Black Veil
  52. 7.03: Young Goodman Brown
  53. 08: Henry David Thoreau
  54. 8.01: Introduction (2016)
  55. 8.02: Where I Lived and What I Lived For from Walden
  56. 09: Ralph Waldo Emerson
  57. 9.01: A Look Into Transcendentalism (Group Anthology Contribution 2019)
  58. 9.02: Introduction (2017)
  59. 9.03: Introduction (2016)
  60. 9.04: Self-Reliance (1841)
  61. 9.05: Double-Edged Pen
  62. 10: Frederick Douglass
  63. 10.01: Introduction (2017)
  64. 10.02: A Free Country- Irony in The Heroic Slave
  65. 10.03: The Heroic Slave (1852)
  66. 10.04: The Sneaky African (Babo) Versus the Herculean African (Madison Washington)
  67. 10.05: In Da kitchen with Freddy D and Ya Boi Melville Sweet vs. Spicy
  68. 10.06: Douglass- Heroic or Cowardly
  69. 10.07: His Head Was with His Heart and that was Far Away
  70. 10.08: Fight the Power By Supporting It
  71. 10.09: Its All About Who Writes It
  72. 10.10: Frederick Douglass- A Breath of Fresh Air
  73. 10.11: Finally a Person
  74. 10.12: Evil Versus Good- A Difference in Slave Characters
  75. 10.13: Humanitys Enjoyment of Sectioning
  76. 10.14: Slaves Humans OK
  77. 10.15: A Pill to Swallow
  78. 10.16: The Hero and the Villain
  79. 10.17: Exploring Madisons Journey to Freedom and Heroism
  80. 10.18: Intentions Left UnsaidTo An Extent
  81. 10.19: Melville Versus Douglass- The Trickster against the Sympathetic Heart
  82. 10.20: Nature-Men
  83. 10.21: Douglass Melville
  84. 10.22: Urgency and Lack Thereof
  85. 11: Walt Whitman
  86. 11.01: Introduction (2017)
  87. 11.02: Song of Myself
  88. 11.03: The Song is of Yourself but Who Are You Singing To
  89. 11.04: Lesson Plan for Walt Whitmans Song of Myself (Group Anthology Contribution 2019)
  90. 12: Emily Dickinson
  91. 12.01: 341 (Tis so appalling it exhilarates)
  92. 12.02: 348 (I would not paint a picture)
  93. 12.03: 353 (Im ceded Ive stopped being Theirs)
  94. 12.04: 355 (It was not Death for I stood up)
  95. 12.05: 359 (A Bird came down the Walk)
  96. 12.06: 372 (After great pain a formal feeling comes )
  97. 12.07: 381 (I cannot dance upon my Toes)
  98. 12.08: 407 (One need not be a Chamber to be Haunted)
  99. 12.09: 409 (The Soul selects her own Society)
  100. 12.10: 466 (I dwell in Possibility)
  101. 12.11: 122 (These are the days when Birds come back)
  102. 12.12: 479 (Because I could not stop for Death)
  103. 12.13: 519 (this is my letter to the World)
  104. 12.14: 598 (The Brain is wider than the Sky)
  105. 12.15: 620 (Much Madness is divinest Sense)
  106. 12.16: 656 (I started Early Took my Dog)
  107. 12.17: 675 (What soft Cherubic Creatures)
  108. 12.18: 764 (My Life had stood a Loaded Gun )
  109. 12.19: 857 (She rose to His Requirement dropt)
  110. 12.20: 1096 (A narrow Fellow in the Grass)
  111. 12.21: 1263 (Tell all the truth but tell it slant)
  112. 12.22: 194 (Title divine is mine)
  113. 12.23: 1773 (My life closed twice before its close)
  114. 12.24: Reading and Review Questions
  115. 12.25: 207 (I taste a liquor never brewed)
  116. 12.26: 225 (Im wife Ive finished that)
  117. 12.27: 236 (Some keep the Sabbath going to Church)
  118. 12.28: 260 (Im Nobody Who are you)
  119. 12.29: 269 (Wild nights Wild nights)
  120. 12.30: 320 (Theres a certain Slant of light)
  121. 12.31: 340 (I felt a Funeral in my Brain)
  122. 13: Harriet Beecher Stowe
  123. 13.01: Introduction (2017)
  124. 13.02: Introduction (2016)
  125. 13.03: Uncle Toms Cabin (Chapters 1-3 7)
  126. 13.04: Lesson Plan for Harriet Beecher Stowes Uncle Toms Cabin (Group Anthology Contribution 2019)
  127. 13.05: When Sympathy Goes Beyond the Pages
  128. 13.06: All The Slave Texts Thus Far
  129. 13.07: Slaves Are Human TooWhen They Act White and Look Attractive
  130. 13.08: Untitled
  131. 13.09: How to Depict a Black Character by Depicting Them as Not all Black
  132. 13.10: Uncle Toms Cabin versus Benito Cereno versus The Heroic Slave
  133. 13.11: Hot People Are White-Looking and Good Ugly People Are Evil
  134. 13.12: Using Religion to Internalize Whiteness
  135. 13.13: Stowe was White
  136. 13.14: The Depiction of Race in Uncle Toms Cabin
  137. 13.15: The Mother The Father and the Holy American Man
  138. 13.16: The Book That Started the Civil War
  139. 13.17: Things To Stop Romanticizing- The Stranger Things Kids and 19th-Century Slaves
  140. 13.18: Gentle Giants
  141. 13.19: Uncle Toms Cabin- The Good The Bad and the Ugly
  142. 13.20: Racisms Prevalence in Early American Literature
  143. 14: Harriet Jacobs
  144. 14.01: Introduction (2017)
  145. 14.02: Introduction (2016)
  146. 14.03: Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
  147. 14.04: Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl Biography and Chapter 11-22 Critical Questions
  148. 14.05: Further Reading for Scholarly Works of Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (Group Anthology Contribution 2019)
  149. 15: Mark Twain
  150. 15.01: Introduction (2015)
  151. 15.02: The Man that Corrupted Hadleyburg
  152. 15.03: The One Million Pound Banknote
  153. 16: Where is American Literature Now- Contemporary Connections
  154. 16.01: Where is American Literature Now- Nuclear War Cyber-Attacks and Still Fighting With the Natives
  155. 16.02: Uncanny Parallels in Steven Universe
  156. 16.03: Does Twitter Poetry Count as American Literature
  157. 16.04: American Literature- Helping Queer Kids Figure Themselves Out Since 1855
  158. 16.05: We are still making America let alone making it great
  159. 16.06: I can do ityou can too
  160. 16.07: The Tradition
  161. 16.08: Its Always Sunny in America
  162. 16.09: The (Super)Heroic (Time Travelers posing as) Slave(s)
  163. 16.10: The Theme of Rearticulation
  164. 16.11: Black Motherhood The Desire For Family and Black Heritage
  165. 17: Earlier American Literature in Music
  166. 17.01: WAV Files a Contemporary Piece of Early American Literature
  167. 17.02: American Literature in American Music
  168. 17.03: Thank u Emerson
  169. 17.04: My Diligence is Only Meant to Write Your Eulogy
  170. 17.05: Why is this America
  171. 17.06: That Word is Only a Color
  172. 17.07: This land is your land
  173. 17.08: Re-share Re-view Recycle- How Early American Themes Reappear in Modern Texts
  174. 17.09: Where is American Literature Today- The Answer Might Surprise You
  175. 18: Earlier American Literature in Film
  176. 18.01: You Cant Hide Whats In Your Heart
  177. 18.02: Patrick Batemen is Ralph Waldo Emerson
  178. 18.03: GTFO
  179. 18.04: Its Time to Get Out Your Antiquated Views on Race
  180. 18.05: Twelve Yearsin the Life of a Slave Girl
  181. 18.06: Im Not the Right Person to Be Talking About This
  182. 18.07: Life Imitates Artor Art Imitates Life
  183. 18.08: Madison Unchained
  184. 18.09: Into Self-Reliance
  185. 18.10: Down the Rabbit Hole
  186. 18.11: The Self-Reliant Baby Driver (Spoiler Alert) Where is American Literature Now
  187. 18.12: Avatar is just Pocahontas with Blue People in Space
  188. 18.13: SHOOK- Django is Madison Washington.. with a trigger happy finger.
  189. 18.14: Why Does it ALWAYS Take a White Character to be Able to Save those of Color
  190. 18.15: Wakanda Forever
  191. 18.16: Equality I dont think so.
  192. 18.17: The H8teful 8
  193. 18.18: The Culture With The Attention Span Of A Goldfish
  194. 18.19: Harriet Jacobs and William Peter Blatty- Interpretations of Slavery Maternity and Weaponized Religion
  195. 18.20: American Literature Today
  196. 18.21: Technologys Impact on Literature
  197. 18.22: The Dance of American Literature
  198. 19: The Female American (1767) Supplementary Readings
  199. 19.01: The Princess War- A Feminist Saga
  200. 19.02: Feminism in The Female American
  201. 19.03: Feminism Displayed in The Female American Through The Crazy Ex
  202. 19.04: Hell Hath No Fury Like a Woman Scorned
  203. 19.05: My Religion is Better than Yours
  204. 19.06: Call My Agent Disneys Got a New Movie to Make
  205. 19.07: The Female American Anti-Bibliomancy
  206. 19.08: The Inverse of Power Between Worlds
  207. 19.09: Native American or Classical Painting
  208. 19.10: And God Said Oops
  209. 19.11: Unca- Gender will not be my weakness
  210. 19.12: A Relationship that Reflected the World Around Them
  211. 19.13: The Sun and The God
  212. 19.14: Religion- Saying Yes to the Colonial Encounter
  213. 19.15: Unca is the Scientist of Her Own Experiment
  214. 19.16: To All Resilient Young Women
  215. 19.17: Raiding Capturing and Slaughtering in the Name of God
  216. 19.18: Religion as Comfort Versus Religion as Justification
  217. 20: Letters from an American Farmer (1767) Supplementary Readings
  218. 20.01: An Unstable Identity- The White American Man
  219. 20.02: America- Utopia or Dystopia
  220. 20.03: The Naive and Delusional Farmer
  221. 20.04: Men Are Like Plants Theyre Weak
  222. 20.05: Proud to be an American Where at Least I Know Im Part of an Industry
  223. 20.06: He Should Have Worked for Real Estate
  224. 20.07: J. Hector St. John de Crevecoeur- National Hero or Portrayal of White Guilt
  225. 20.08: Live Long and Industrialize Unless Youre a Slave Then Its Highly Improbable That Will Happen.
  226. 20.09: Who You Calling a Plant
  227. 20.10: For Sale- America Get It Now
  228. 20.11: America the Great
  229. 20.12: Beautifulish Americans
  230. 20.13: Come To America Wait No Not THAT Part And Ignore the European Qualities