Early American Literature: A Bibliography of Secondary Material

For Recent Publications in the field of Early American studies, please consult:

The Society of Early Americanists Page of Recent and Forthcoming Publications and Journals



NEW FRANCE

Anderson, Karen L.  Chain Her by One Foot: The Subjugation of Native Women in Seventeenth- Century New France. New York: Routledge, 1991. 

Axtell, James. The Invasion Within: The Contest of Cultures in Colonial North America. New York: Oxford UP, 1985. 

Balesi, Charles J.  The Time of the French in the Heart of North America, 1673-1818. Chicago:  Alliance Francaise Chicago, 1992.

Bentley, D. M. R., ed.  Early Long Poems on Canada. London, Canada: Canadian Poetry P, 1993.

Calloway, Colin G. New Worlds for All: Indians, Europeans, and the Remaking of Early America. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins UP, 1997.

Dickason, Olive Patricia. Canada’s First Nations: A History of Founding Peoples from Earliest Times. Norman: U of Oklahoma P, 1992.

---.  The Myth of the Savage and the Beginnings of French Colonialism in the Americas. Edmonton: U of Alberta P, 1984. 

Eccles, W. J. Canada Under Louis XIV, 1663-1701. The Canadian Centenary Series. Toronto:  McClelland and Stewart, 1964. 

---. France in America. 1972. East Lansing: Michigan State UP, 1990. 

Galloway, Patricia K., ed. La Salle and His Legacy: Frenchmen and Indians in the Lower  Mississippi Valley. Jackson: UP of Mississippi, 1982. 

Hamilton, Roberta.  Feudal Society and Colonization: The Historiography of New France. Gananoque: Langdale P, 1988.

Hoffman, Paul E. A New Andalucia and a Way to the Orient: The American Southeast During the Sixteenth Century. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State UP, 1990.

Jaenen, Cornelius J.  Friend and Foe: Aspects of French-Amerindian Cultural Contact in the  Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries. New York: Columbia UP, 1976. 

Klinck, Carl F., et al., eds. Literary History of Canada: Canadian Literature in English. 2nd ed.  Toronto: U of Toronto P, 1976. 

Lyon, Eugene. The Enterprise of Florida: Pedro Menendez de Aviles and the Spanish Conquest of 1565-1568. Gainesville: UP of Florida, 1976.

Milanich, Jerald T.  Florida Indians and the Invasion from Europe. Gainesville: UP of Florida, 1995. 

Miquelon, Dale. The First Canada: to 1791. Toronto: McGraw-Hill Ryerson, 1994. 

 ---. New France, 1701-1744: “A Supplement to Europe.” The Canadian Centenary Series. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1987.

Moore, James T. Indian and Jesuit: A Seventeenth-Century Encounter. Chicago: Loyola UP, 1982. 

Moyles, R. G. English-Canadian Literature to 1900: A Guide to Information Resources. Detroit:  Gale, 1976. 

New, W. H., ed. Canadian Writers before 1890. Dictionary of Literary Biography 99. Detroit:  Gale, 1990. 

---. A History of Canadian Literature. New York: New Amsterdam, 1989. 

Peyser, Joseph L., ed.  Letters from New France: The Upper Country, 1686-1783. Urbana: U of  Illinois P, 1992.

Quattlebaum, Paul.  The Land Called Chicora: The Carolinas under Spanish Rule with French  Intrusions, 1520-1670. Gainesville: U of Florida P, 1956. 

Sayre, Gordon M. Les Sauvages Américains: Representations of Native Americans in French and English Colonial Literature. Chapel Hill: U of North Carolina P, 1997.

Stanley, George F. G.  New France: The Last Phase, 1744-1760. The Canadian Centenary Series. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1968.

Taylor, M. Brook. Beginnings to Confederation. Toronto: U of Toronto P, 1994. Vol. 1 of  Canadian History: A Reader’s Guide. 2 vols. 

Thwaites, Reuben Gold, ed. The Jesuit Relations and Allied Documents: Travels and  Explorations of the Jesuit Missionaries in New France, 1610-1791. 73 vols. Cleveland:  Burrows Bros., 1896-1901. 

Trigger, Bruce G. Natives and Newcomers: Canada’s “Heroic Age” Reconsidered. Kingston:  McGill-Queen’s UP, 1985.

Trudel, Marcel. The Beginnings of New France, 1524-1663. The Canadian Centenary Series.  Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1973. 

Warkentin, Germaine.  Cnadian Exploration Literature: An Anthology. Toronto: Oxford UP, 1993.

Weddle, Robert S. The French Thorn: Rival Explorers in the Spanish Sea, 1682-1762. College  Station: Texas A&M UP, 1991. 

Zoltvany, Yves F., ed.  The French Tradition in America. Columbia: U of South Carolina P, 1969.


The bibliographies were originally compiled by Prof. Edward J. Gallagher, Lehigh University, and are currently updated and sponsored by Minnesota State University Moorhead.
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