American Tradition in Literature, Concise - 12th edition
American Tradition in Literature, Concise - 12th edition
by George Perkins and Barbara Perkins
Cover type: PaperbackEdition: 12TH 09
Copyright: 2009
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Publishing Company
Published: 2009
International: No
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Summary
Table of Contents
List of Illustrations
Preface
EXPLORATION AND THE COLONIES, 1492'1791 Virginia and the South New England Timeline: Exploration and the Colonies
NATIVES AND EXPLORERS NATIVE LITERATURE: THE ORAL TRADITION The Chiefs Daughters Coyote and Bear Twelfth Song of the Thunder The Corn Grows Up At the Time of the White Dawn Snake the Cause The Weaver's Lamentation
CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS (1451-1506) [Report of the First Voyage]
GIOVANNI DA VERRAZZANO (1485?-1528) From Verrazzano's Voyage: 1524
ALVAR NUEZ CABEZA DE VACA (c1490-c1557) From Narrative of Cabeza de Vaca Chapter 12: The Indians Bring Us Food Chapter 16: The Christians Leave the Island of Malhado
RICHARD HAKLUYT (1552-1616) The Famous Voyage of Sir Francis Drake [Nova Albion]
SAMUEL DE CHAMPLAIN (c1567-1635) From Voyages of Samuel de Champlain: The Voyage of 1604'1607
THE COLONIES JOHN SMITH (1580-1631) From The General History of Virginia, New England, and the Summer Isles The Third Book. The Proceedings and Accidents of the English Colony in Virginia Chapter II: What Happened till the First Supply The Fourth Book: The Proceedings of the English after the Alteration of the Government Of Virginia John Smith's Relation to Queen Anne of Pocahontas (1616)
WILLIAM BRADFORD (1590-1657) From Of Plymouth Plantation, Book I Chapter IX: Of their Voyage, and how they Passed the Sea; and of their Safe Arrival at Cape Cod Chapter X: Showing How they Sought out a place of Habitation; and What Befell them Thereabout From Of Plymouth Plantation, Book II [The Mayflower Compact (1620)] [Compact with the Indians] [First Thanksgiving] [Narragansett Challenge] [Thomas Morton of Merrymount]
JOHN WINTHROP (1588-1649) From A Model of Christian Charity
PURITANISM ANNE BRADSTREET (1612?-1672) The Prologue The Flesh and the Spirit The Author to Her Book Before the Birth of One of Her Children To My Dear and Loving Husband A Letter to Her Husband, Absent upon Public Employment In Memory of My Dear Grandchild Elizabeth Bradstreet, Who Deceased August, 1665 Being a Year and a Half Old Upon the Burning of Our House, July 10th, 1666
MARY ROWLANDSON (1636?'1711?) From A Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson
EDWARD TAYLOR (1642?-1729) The Preface Upon Wedlock, and Death of Children Huswifery Meditation 8, First Series Upon a Spider Catching a Fly CROSS
CURRENTS: PURITANS, INDIANS, AND WITCHCRAFT COTTON MATHER (1663-1728) *[Indian Powaws and Witchcraft]
MARY TOWNE EASTY (1634?-1692) [The Petition of Mary Towne Easty]
SAMUEL SEWALL (1652-1730) *[A Witchcraft Judge's Confession of Guilt]
COTTON MATHER (1663-1728) From The Wonders of the Invisible World Enchantments Encountered The Trial of Bridget Bishop A Third Curiosity
THE SOUTH AND THE MIDDLE COLONIES WILLIAM BYRD (1674-1744) From The History of the Dividing Line [Indian Neighbors]
JOHN WOOLMAN (1720-1772) From The Journal of John Woolman 1720-1742 [Early Years] 1757 [Evidence of Divine Truth], [Slavery] 1755-1758 [Taxes and Wars]
ST. JEAN DE CREV'COEUR (1735-1813) From Letters from an American Farmer: What Is an American?
REASON AND REVOLUTION The Enlightenment and the Spirit of Rationalism From Neoclassical to Romantic Literature Timeline: Reason and Revolution JONATHAN EDWARDS (1703-1758) Sarah Pierrepont From A Divine and Supernatural Light Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God Personal N
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List of Illustrations
Preface
EXPLORATION AND THE COLONIES, 1492'1791 Virginia and the South New England Timeline: Exploration and the Colonies
NATIVES AND EXPLORERS NATIVE LITERATURE: THE ORAL TRADITION The Chiefs Daughters Coyote and Bear Twelfth Song of the Thunder The Corn Grows Up At the Time of the White Dawn Snake the Cause The Weaver's Lamentation
CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS (1451-1506) [Report of the First Voyage]
GIOVANNI DA VERRAZZANO (1485?-1528) From Verrazzano's Voyage: 1524
ALVAR NUEZ CABEZA DE VACA (c1490-c1557) From Narrative of Cabeza de Vaca Chapter 12: The Indians Bring Us Food Chapter 16: The Christians Leave the Island of Malhado
RICHARD HAKLUYT (1552-1616) The Famous Voyage of Sir Francis Drake [Nova Albion]
SAMUEL DE CHAMPLAIN (c1567-1635) From Voyages of Samuel de Champlain: The Voyage of 1604'1607
THE COLONIES JOHN SMITH (1580-1631) From The General History of Virginia, New England, and the Summer Isles The Third Book. The Proceedings and Accidents of the English Colony in Virginia Chapter II: What Happened till the First Supply The Fourth Book: The Proceedings of the English after the Alteration of the Government Of Virginia John Smith's Relation to Queen Anne of Pocahontas (1616)
WILLIAM BRADFORD (1590-1657) From Of Plymouth Plantation, Book I Chapter IX: Of their Voyage, and how they Passed the Sea; and of their Safe Arrival at Cape Cod Chapter X: Showing How they Sought out a place of Habitation; and What Befell them Thereabout From Of Plymouth Plantation, Book II [The Mayflower Compact (1620)] [Compact with the Indians] [First Thanksgiving] [Narragansett Challenge] [Thomas Morton of Merrymount]
JOHN WINTHROP (1588-1649) From A Model of Christian Charity
PURITANISM ANNE BRADSTREET (1612?-1672) The Prologue The Flesh and the Spirit The Author to Her Book Before the Birth of One of Her Children To My Dear and Loving Husband A Letter to Her Husband, Absent upon Public Employment In Memory of My Dear Grandchild Elizabeth Bradstreet, Who Deceased August, 1665 Being a Year and a Half Old Upon the Burning of Our House, July 10th, 1666
MARY ROWLANDSON (1636?'1711?) From A Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson
EDWARD TAYLOR (1642?-1729) The Preface Upon Wedlock, and Death of Children Huswifery Meditation 8, First Series Upon a Spider Catching a Fly CROSS
CURRENTS: PURITANS, INDIANS, AND WITCHCRAFT COTTON MATHER (1663-1728) *[Indian Powaws and Witchcraft]
MARY TOWNE EASTY (1634?-1692) [The Petition of Mary Towne Easty]
SAMUEL SEWALL (1652-1730) *[A Witchcraft Judge's Confession of Guilt]
COTTON MATHER (1663-1728) From The Wonders of the Invisible World Enchantments Encountered The Trial of Bridget Bishop A Third Curiosity
THE SOUTH AND THE MIDDLE COLONIES WILLIAM BYRD (1674-1744) From The History of the Dividing Line [Indian Neighbors]
JOHN WOOLMAN (1720-1772) From The Journal of John Woolman 1720-1742 [Early Years] 1757 [Evidence of Divine Truth], [Slavery] 1755-1758 [Taxes and Wars]
ST. JEAN DE CREV'COEUR (1735-1813) From Letters from an American Farmer: What Is an American?
REASON AND REVOLUTION The Enlightenment and the Spirit of Rationalism From Neoclassical to Romantic Literature Timeline: Reason and Revolution JONATHAN EDWARDS (1703-1758) Sarah Pierrepont From A Divine and Supernatural Light Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God Personal N
Published: 2009
International: No
Summary
Table of Contents
Table of Contents
List of Illustrations
Preface
EXPLORATION AND THE COLONIES, 1492'1791 Virginia and the South New England Timeline: Exploration and the Colonies
NATIVES AND EXPLORERS NATIVE LITERATURE: THE ORAL TRADITION The Chiefs Daughters Coyote and Bear Twelfth Song of the Thunder The Corn Grows Up At the Time of the White Dawn Snake the Cause The Weaver's Lamentation
CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS (1451-1506) [Report of the First Voyage]
GIOVANNI DA VERRAZZANO (1485?-1528) From Verrazzano's Voyage: 1524
ALVAR NUEZ CABEZA DE VACA (c1490-c1557) From Narrative of Cabeza de Vaca Chapter 12: The Indians Bring Us Food Chapter 16: The Christians Leave the Island of Malhado
RICHARD HAKLUYT (1552-1616) The Famous Voyage of Sir Francis Drake [Nova Albion]
SAMUEL DE CHAMPLAIN (c1567-1635) From Voyages of Samuel de Champlain: The Voyage of 1604'1607
THE COLONIES JOHN SMITH (1580-1631) From The General History of Virginia, New England, and the Summer Isles The Third Book. The Proceedings and Accidents of the English Colony in Virginia Chapter II: What Happened till the First Supply The Fourth Book: The Proceedings of the English after the Alteration of the Government Of Virginia John Smith's Relation to Queen Anne of Pocahontas (1616)
WILLIAM BRADFORD (1590-1657) From Of Plymouth Plantation, Book I Chapter IX: Of their Voyage, and how they Passed the Sea; and of their Safe Arrival at Cape Cod Chapter X: Showing How they Sought out a place of Habitation; and What Befell them Thereabout From Of Plymouth Plantation, Book II [The Mayflower Compact (1620)] [Compact with the Indians] [First Thanksgiving] [Narragansett Challenge] [Thomas Morton of Merrymount]
JOHN WINTHROP (1588-1649) From A Model of Christian Charity
PURITANISM ANNE BRADSTREET (1612?-1672) The Prologue The Flesh and the Spirit The Author to Her Book Before the Birth of One of Her Children To My Dear and Loving Husband A Letter to Her Husband, Absent upon Public Employment In Memory of My Dear Grandchild Elizabeth Bradstreet, Who Deceased August, 1665 Being a Year and a Half Old Upon the Burning of Our House, July 10th, 1666
MARY ROWLANDSON (1636?'1711?) From A Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson
EDWARD TAYLOR (1642?-1729) The Preface Upon Wedlock, and Death of Children Huswifery Meditation 8, First Series Upon a Spider Catching a Fly CROSS
CURRENTS: PURITANS, INDIANS, AND WITCHCRAFT COTTON MATHER (1663-1728) *[Indian Powaws and Witchcraft]
MARY TOWNE EASTY (1634?-1692) [The Petition of Mary Towne Easty]
SAMUEL SEWALL (1652-1730) *[A Witchcraft Judge's Confession of Guilt]
COTTON MATHER (1663-1728) From The Wonders of the Invisible World Enchantments Encountered The Trial of Bridget Bishop A Third Curiosity
THE SOUTH AND THE MIDDLE COLONIES WILLIAM BYRD (1674-1744) From The History of the Dividing Line [Indian Neighbors]
JOHN WOOLMAN (1720-1772) From The Journal of John Woolman 1720-1742 [Early Years] 1757 [Evidence of Divine Truth], [Slavery] 1755-1758 [Taxes and Wars]
ST. JEAN DE CREV'COEUR (1735-1813) From Letters from an American Farmer: What Is an American?
REASON AND REVOLUTION The Enlightenment and the Spirit of Rationalism From Neoclassical to Romantic Literature Timeline: Reason and Revolution JONATHAN EDWARDS (1703-1758) Sarah Pierrepont From A Divine and Supernatural Light Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God Personal N