The English Literatures of America: 1500-1800Myra Jehlen, Michael Warner The English Literatures of America redefines colonial American literatures, sweeping from Newfoundland and Nova Scotia to the West Indies and Guiana. The book begins with the first colonization of the Americas and stretches beyond the Revolution to the early national period. Many texts are collected here for the first time; others are recognized masterpieces of the canon--both British and American--that can now be read in their Atlantic context. By emphasizing the culture of empire and by representing a transatlantic dialogue, The English Literatures of America allows a new way to understand colonial literature both in the United States and abroad. |
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... head which is long and black, and especially in the women, whom it renders handsome. In aspect they are not very good-looking, because they have broad faces, so that they would seem Tartarlike. They let no hair grow on their eyebrows ...
... head which is long and black, and especially in the women, whom it renders handsome. In aspect they are not very good-looking, because they have broad faces, so that they would seem Tartarlike. They let no hair grow on their eyebrows ...
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... heads, thinking that they shall have to eat. They have not nor do they use ceremonies of torches nor of lamentation. In some other places they use the most barbarous and inhuman burial, which is ... head to foot with a 22 Amerigo Vespucci.
... heads, thinking that they shall have to eat. They have not nor do they use ceremonies of torches nor of lamentation. In some other places they use the most barbarous and inhuman burial, which is ... head to foot with a 22 Amerigo Vespucci.
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1500-1800 Myra Jehlen, Michael Warner. they bathed him from head to foot with a large quantity of cold water; then they lit a great fire around him, making him turn and turn again every two hours, until they tired him and left him to ...
1500-1800 Myra Jehlen, Michael Warner. they bathed him from head to foot with a large quantity of cold water; then they lit a great fire around him, making him turn and turn again every two hours, until they tired him and left him to ...
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... head. The mirror was pierced in the center like a spindle whorl, and the night sky could be seen in its face. The hour was noon, but the stars and the mamalhuaztli11 could be seen in the face of that mirror. Motecuhzoma took it as a ...
... head. The mirror was pierced in the center like a spindle whorl, and the night sky could be seen in its face. The hour was noon, but the stars and the mamalhuaztli11 could be seen in the face of that mirror. Motecuhzoma took it as a ...
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... head, and it rolled across the floor. They attacked all the celebrants, stabbing them, spearing them, striking them ... heads, or split their heads to pieces. They struck others in the shoulders, and their arms were torn from their ...
... head, and it rolled across the floor. They attacked all the celebrants, stabbing them, spearing them, striking them ... heads, or split their heads to pieces. They struck others in the shoulders, and their arms were torn from their ...
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