Modern Language Association Publications

Teaching the Literatures of Early America

Carla Mulford, editor


Table of Contents

ISSUES, THEMES, METHODS

Beyond the Boundaries of the Americas

The Old Wisdom: Introducing Native American Materials, by James Ruppert
Diversity and Difference in African American Writings, by Amy E. Winans
Early Women's Texts, by Sharon M. Harris
Figuring Multicultural Practice in Early American Literature Classrooms, by Pattie Cowell
Resisting Colonialism, by Carla Mulford

Spanish and French Colonial Writings
Colonial Spanish Writings, by E. Thomson Shields and Dana D. Nelson
Early French North American Writings, by Rosalie Murphy Baum

British Colonial and Post-Colonial Writings
The Literature of England's Staple Colonies, by David S. Shields
The Literature of Colonial English Puritanism, by Philip F. Gura
The American Enlightenment and Endless Emancipation, by Frank C. Shuffelton
Federalism and Conflict, by Nicholas D. Rombes

Genre Studies
Early Anglo-American Poetry: Genre, Voice, Art, and Representation, by William J. Scheick
Early American Prose Fiction and the Anxieties of Affluence, by Joseph A. Fichtelberg
Early American Drama and Theater, by Jeffrey H. Richards
American Self-Fashioning and the Problems of Autobiography, by Gregory Eiselein
Captivity Narratives, by Kathryn Zabelle Derounian-Stodola

SELECTED COURSES
The Early American Literature Survey, by Russell Reising
Gender, Genre, and Culture: A Two-Quarter Graduate Seminar, by Karen E. Rowe
Common Ground on Different Borders: A Comparative Study of Chicano/a and
Puritan Writers, by Jose F. Aranda, Jr.
From "The Melting Pot" to Multiculturalism, by Dennis D. Moore
New Worlds, 1450-1750: A Historian's Perspective on the Study of Colonial America, by Gary L. Hewitt

RESOURCES
Resources for Early American Studies: A Selective Guide, by Edward J. Gallagher

Cloth ISBN 0-87352-358-X [J215C]

$40.00 (MLA members $32.00)

Paper ISBN 0-87352-359-8 [J215P]

$22.00 (MLA members $17.60)

January 8, 2000