The Colonial and Early National Period, 1654-1840: American Jewish History Vol. 1

Ed: Jeffrey S. Gurock

The first volume contains articles on a variety of areas including Jewish
involvement in the War of Independence and in the American Revolution, the New
York Jewish Community of the time and a look at the Dutch and English Jews of the
period.

Jewish Studies
History

Routledge, New York
11/1997

476 pages
American Jewish History

Cloth
ISBN: 0415919207
$120.00 (US)
$180.00 (Canada)

Myra Jehlen and Michael Warner

The English Literatures of America; An Anthology: 1500-1800

ISBN: 0-415-90873-6

Readership: Literary Criticism, Literature

1100 pages $35.00/pb

The English Literatures of America redefines colonial American literatures.

Sweeping from Newfoundland and Nova Scotia to the West Indies and Guiana.

This anthology surveys the emergence of Anglo-American cultures in the

first dramatic period of the European empires.

The book begins with the first colonization of the Americas and stretches beyond the Revolution to the early national period. Placing the literary culture of the settlements in the context of other colonies as well as the growing cosmopolitan culture of the British empire itself, this lively reader contains numerous dialogues across the English Atlantic world. While historically sound and thorough, this anthology responds to current interests, for example, the global context of national cultures; the relation between colonial histories and cosmopolitan culture; or the omissions and margins of the literary record.

The English Literatures of America offers a wide range of voices, including women writers on both sides of the ocean, early English-language texts of Native Americans, and writings of Africans both slave and free, in London as well as in the American colonies. It includes texts from elite as well as common cultures, Puritans in New England as well as Puritans in the West Indies, regional cultures in the colonial South as well as the grand cosmopolitan

culture of imperial London. The organization of The English Literatures of America involves a thorough rethinking of colonial American literature that, while retaining the standards of the American canon, places them in a new light. American literatures are for the first time presented in an international and colonial context. Not only do new texts appear; familiar ones have new significance. The Puritans can be read as they understood themselves, i.e., as New English.

Many texts are collected here for the first time in any anthology. Others are recognized masterpieces of the canon--both British and American--that for the first time can be read in their Atlantic context. Here, for example, are Francis Bacon, Andrew Marvell, Alexander Pope and Adam Smith, as well as Bradstreet, Wheatley, Edwards and Franklin. Despite

the unparalleled scope of this anthology, many texts are given complete rather than in snippets. These include Hariot's Brief and True Report of the New Found Land of Virginia, Aphra Behn's play the Widow Ranter, numerous essays by Benjamin Franklin and others. 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.

Published in English , First Published in the EU September 1996 First

Published in North America 19

Size: 1100 pages, Dimensions: 234x156 mm 6.25x9.25 inches

US List Price: US $35.00

UK/European Community List Price: £16.99

Michael Colacurcio

Doctrine and Difference: Essays in the Literature of New England.

ISBN: 0 415 91238 5

The enduring power of many antebellum American texts trace their inspiration to Puritanism. From Melville's preposterous but irresponsible quarrels with God to Hawthorne's instructed yet edgy evocations of earlier New England, to Dickinson's finely turned little blasphemies. Can one imagine that such texts were written anywhere but in the latter days of Puritanism? Doctrine and Difference<$> shows how the spirit and forms of liberalism are a necessary but by no means sufficient explanation for the flowering of literature in this period. The colonialist writers were attempting to have things their own provincial way amidst an air of rejection by the cosmopolitan literary establishment. Capturing the violence of repression, the energy required to meet its moral argument head on, and the disease of embattled survival, this book shows how these works are in many ways the literary remnants of Puritanism.

US List Price: US $59.95

February 28, 2000