Reading List
Collections of Primary Texts
Barclay, Donald A., et al. Into the Wilderness Dream: Exploration Narratives
of the American West, 1500-1805. Salt Lake City: University of Utah
Press, 1994.
Calloway, Colin G. The world Turned Upside Down: Indian Voices from Early
America. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1994.
Cowell, Pattie. Women Poets in Pre-Revolutionary America, 1650- 1775. Troy,
NY: Whitston Publishing Co., 1981. (anthology of verse)
The English Literatures of America: An Anthology: 1500-1800. Routledge,
1996.
Gunn, Giles, ed. Early American Writing. New York: Penguin, 1994. 600 pp.
Harris, Sharon, ed. American Women Writers to 1800. Oxford University Press,
1996.
Meserole, Harrison T. American Poetry of the Seventeenth Century.
University Park, Penn.: The Pennsylvania State University
Press,1985.
Miller, Perry, and Thomas Johnson, eds. The Puritans: A Sourcebook of their
Writings, Vols. I and II.
Slotkin, Richard and James Folsom, eds. So Dreadful a Judgment:
Puritan
Responses to King Philip's War, 1676-1677. Middleton: Wesleyan University
Press, 1978.
Spiller, Robert E. The American Literary Revolution, 1783-1837.
Documents
in American Civilizatin Series. New York: Doubleday and Co., Inc., 1967;
rpt. Anchor Books.
Principal Journals
Early American Literature
Essex Institute Historical Collections
Studies in Puritan American Spirituality (annual)
William and Mary Quarterly
Secondary Works
Arch, Steven Carl. Mastering History: Puritan Historians in Colonial
America. (1990).
Bercovitch, Sacvan. The American Jeremiad. Madison: The University of
Wisconsin Press, 1978.
Bercovitch Sacvan. The American Puritan Imagination: Essays in Revaluation.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1974.
Bercovitch, Sacvan. Puritan Origins of the American Self. New Haven: Yale
University Press, 1975.
Bercovitch, Sacvan. The Rites of Assent: Transformations in the Symbolic
Construction of America. New York: Routledge, 1993.
Blaut, J. M. The Colonizer's Model of the World: Geographical Diffusionism
and Eurocentric History. New York: The Guilford Press, 1993.
Breitwieser, Mitchell Robert. American Puritanism and the Defense of
Mourning: Religion, Grief, and Ethnology in Mary White
Rowlandson's Captivity Narrative. Madison: The University of Wisconsin
Press, 1990.
Breitwieser, Mitchell Robert. Cotton Mather and Benjamin Franklin: The
Price of Representative Personality. New York: Cambridge University
Press, 1984.
Brown, Richard D. Knowledge is Power: The Diffusion of Information in Early
America, 1700-1865. New York: Oxford University Press, 1989.
Brumm, Ursula. American Thought and Religious Typology. New Brunswick, New
Jersey, 1970. Originally published in German in 1963 and translated by
the author.
Buell, Lawrence. New England Literary Culture: From Revolution through
Renaissance. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1986.
Canup, John. Out of the Wilderness: The Emergence of an American Identity in
Colonial New England. Wesleyan University Press, 1990.
Christophersen, William. The Apparition in the Glass: Charles Brodkden
Brown's American Gothic. Atlanta: University of Georgia Press, 1993.
Davidson, Cathy. Revolution and the Word: The Rise of the Novel in America.
New York: Oxford University Press, 1986.
Derounian-Stodola, Kathryn Zabelle, and James Arthur Lavernier. The Indian
Captivity Narrative, 1550-1900. Twayne 1993.
Derounian-Stodola, Katheryn Zabelle, ed. Early American Literature and
culture: Essays Honoring Harrison T. Meserole. Newark: University of
Delaware Press, 1992.
Dowling, William C. Poetry and Ideology in Revolutionary Connecticut.
Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press, 1990.
Franklin, Wayne. Discovers, Exploreers, Settlers: The Diligent Writers of
Early America. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1979,
Foster, Stephen. The Long Argument: English Puritanism and the Shaping ofNew
England Culture, 1570-1700. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina
Press, 1991.
Gay, Peter. A Loss of Mastery: Puritan Historians in Colonial America.
Berkeley: University of California Press, 1966.
Greene, Jack. The Intellectual Construction of America:
Exceptionalism and
Identity from 1492-1800. Chapel Hill, NC: The University of North
Carolina Press, 1993.
Greenblatt, Stephen. Learning to Curse. Essay on The Tempest.
Greenblatt, Stephen. Marvelous Possessions: The Wonder of the New World.
Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1991.
Hamlin, William M. the Image of America in Montaigne, Spenser, and
Shakespeare: Renaissance Ethnography and Literary Reflection.
New York: St. Martin's Press, 1995.
Hammond, Jeffrey A. Edward Taylor: Fifty Years of Scholarship and
Criticism. Columbia, SC: Camden House, Inc., 1993.
Hulme, Peter. Colonial Encounters: Europe and the Native Caribbean 14921797. New York: Methuen, 1986; rpt. New York: Routledge, 1992.
Johansen, Bruce E. Forgotten Founders: How the American Indian Helped Shape
Democracy. Boston: The Harvard Common Press, 1982.
Kibbey, Ann. The Interpretation of Material Shapes in Puritanism: A Study
of Rhetoric, Prejudice, and Violence. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press,
1986.
Knight, Janice. Orthodoxies in Massachusetts: Rereading American Puritanism.
Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1994.
Kupperman, Karen, ed. America in European Consciousness. Chapel Hill:
University of North Carolina Press, 1995.
Kupperman, Karen. Settling with the Indians: The Meeting of English and
Indian Cultures in America, 1580-1640. Totowa, NJ: Rowman and Littlefield,
1980).
Lavernier, James Arthur. The Indian Captivity Narrative, 1550- 1900. Twayne,
1993.
Lemay, Leo. A Calendar of American Poetry in the Colonial Newspapers and
Magazines and in the Major English Magazines through 1765. Worcester, Mass.:
American Antiquarian Society, distributed by Barre Publishers, Barre, Mass.
(c.1970) 1972.
Lerner, Ralph. Revolutions Revisited: Two Faces of the Politics of
Enlightenment. University of North Carolina Press, 1994.
Luxon, Thomas H. Literal Figures: Puritan Allegory and the Reformation
Crisis in Representation. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1995.
Mannoni, O. Prospero and Caliban: The Psychology of Colonization. Tr.
Pamela Powesland. 1956; tr. New York: Frecerick A Praeger, 1964.
See also Retamar and Greenblatt.
McDonald, Forrest. Novus Ordo Seclorum: The Intellectual Origins of the
Constitution. Lawrence, Kansas: The University Press of Kansas, 1985.
Miller, Perry. Errand Into the Wilderness. Cambridge: Harvard University
Press,1956.
Miller, Perry. The New England Mind: The Seventeenth Century.
New York:
Macmillan Co., 1939; rpt. Beacon Books, 1961.
Miller, Perry. The New England Mind: From Colony to Province.
Boston:
Harvard University Press, 1953; rpt. Beacon Books, 1961.
Murray, David. Forked Tongues: Speech, Writing, and Representaton in Normth
American Indian Texts. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1991.
Namias, June. White Captives: Gender and Ethnicity on the American
Frontier. Chapel Hill, NC: The University of North Carolina
Press, 1993.
Narrating Discovery: The romantic Explorer in American Literature, 1780-1855.
Edited by Bruce Greenfield? Columbia University Press, 1992.
Picon-Salas, Mariano. A Cultural History of Spanish America:
From Conquest
to Independence. Tr. Irving Leonard. Berkeley: The University of
California Press, 1962. Originally published 1944, rev. 1958.
Pratt, Mary Louise. Imperial Eyes: Travel Writing and Transculturation. New
York: Routledge, 1992.
Rabasa, José. Inventing A-M-E-R-I-C-A: Spanish Historiography and the
Formation of Eurocentrism. Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 1993.
Regis, Pamela. Describing Early America: Bartram, Jefferson, Crèvecoeur,
and the Rhetoric of Natural History. DeKalb: Northern Illinois University
Press, 1992.
Retamar, Roberto Fernandez. Caliban and Other Essays. Tr. Edward Baker.
Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1989.
Richards, Jeffrey H. Theatre Enough: American Culture and the Metaphor of
the World Stage, 1607-1789. Durhan, NC: Duke University Press, 1991.
Rowe, Karen. Saint and Singer: Edward Taylor's Typology and the Politics of
Meditation.
Russell, Howard. Indian New England Before the Mayflower.
Hanover, NH:
University Press of New England, 1980.
Scheick, William J. Design in Puritan American Literature.
Lexington,
Kentucky: University Press of Kentucky, 1992.
Schwartz, Stuart B., ed. Implicit Understandings: Observing, Reporting, and
Reflecting on the Encounters between Europeans and Other Peoples in the
Early Modern Era. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1994.
Schweitzer, Ivy. The Work of Self-Representation: Lyric Poetry in Colonial
New England. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press,
1991.
Schulman, Lydia Dittler. "Paradise Lost" and the Rise of the American
Republic. Boston: Northeastern University Press, 1992.
Shields, David S. Oracles of Empire: Poetry, Politics,and Commerce in
British America 1690-1750. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1990.
Simpson, David. The Politics of American English, 1776-1850. New York:
Oxford University Press, 1986.
Slotkin, Richard. Regeneration Through Violence: The Mythology of the
American Frontier, 1600-1860. Middletown, Conn.: Wesleyan University Press,
1973.
Spengeman, William C. A Mirror for Americanists: Reflections on the Idea of
American Literature. Hanover, Conn.: University Press of New
England, 1989.
Spengeman, William C. A New World of Words: Redefining Early American
Literature. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1994.
Tichi, Cecelia. New World, New Earth: Environmental Reform in American
Literature from the Puritans through Whitman. New Haven: Yale University
Press, 1979.
Tinker, George E. Missionary Conquest: The Gospel and Native American
Cultural Genocide. Minneapolis: fortress Press, 1993.
Tompkins, Jane. Sensational Designs: The Cultural Work of American Fiction
1790-1860.
New York: Oxford University Press, 1985.
Warner, Michael. The Letters of the Republic: Publication and the Public
Sphere in Eighteenth-Century America. Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University
Press, 1990.
Weber, Daivid J. The Spanish Frontier in North America. New Haven: Yale
University Press, 1992.
White, Peter, ed. Puritan Poets and Poetics: Seventeenth- Century American
Poetry in Theory and Practice. University Park, Penn.: The Pennsylvania
State University Press, 1985.
The Wild Man Within: An Image in Western Thought from the Renaissance to
Romanticism. Ed. Edward Dudley and Maximillian E. Novak. Pittsburgh:
University of Pittsburgh Press, 1972.
Williams, David R. Wilderness Lost: The Religious Origins of the American
Mind. Selinsgrove: Susquehanna University Press, 1987.
Williams, Jerry M., and Robert E. Lewis, eds. Early Images of the Americas:
Transfer and Invention. Arizona, 1993.
Ziff, Larzer. Writing in the New Nation: Prose, Print, and Politics in the
Early United States. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1991.
General Histories
Camridge History of American Literature, Volume I: 1590-1820.
Edited by
Sacvan Bercovitch. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1994.
Columbia Literary History of the United States. Edited by Emory
al. New York: Columbia University Press, 1988.
Elliott, et
Articles
Adams, Percy. "The Discovery of America and European Renaissance Literature."
Comparative Literature Studies 3 (1976): 100-15.
Bauer, Ralph. "Colonial Discourse and Early American Literary History:
Ercilla, the Inca Garcilaso, and Joel Barlow's Conceptionof a New World Epic."
EAL 30 (1995): 203-232.
Bhabha, Homi K. "The Other Question: The Stereotype and Colonial Discourse."
Screen 24 (1983).
Drounian, Kathryn. "Lost in the Crowd [on Rebecca Rush's Kelroy]." American
Transcendental Quarterly 47-48 (1980): 117-26.
Meserole, Harrison. "Some Notes on Early American Fiction: Kelroy was
There." Studies in American Fiction 5 (1977): 1-12.
Anthologies:
Andrews, William, et al., eds.
Narratives (Wisconsin, 1990)
Banta, Martha, et al.
Journeys in New Worlds: Early American Women’s
The Harper Anthology of American Literature, vol. 1
Branch, Michael P. and Dan Philippon, eds. The Height of Our Mountains:
Nature Writing from Virginia's Blue Ridge Mountains and Shenandoah Valley
(Johns Hopkins, 1998)
Calloway, Colin, ed. The World Turned Upside Down: Indian Voices from Early
America (Bedford, 1994)
Carretta, Vincent, ed. Unchained Voices: An Anthology of Black Authors in the
English-Speaking World of the Eighteenth Century (Kentucky, 1996)
Derounian-Stodola, Kathryn Zabelle, ed. Women's Indian Captivity Narratives
(Penguin 1998)
Erdoes, Richard and Alfonso Ortiz, eds.
(Pantheon, 1984)
Heimert, Alan, and Andrew Delbanco, eds.
Anthology (Harvard, 1985)
American Indian Myths and Legends
The Puritans in America: A Narrative
Franklin, Wayne, ed. American Voices, American Lives (1997).
Gallay, Allan, ed.
Gunn, Giles, ed.
Voices of the Old South, 1528-1861 (Georgia, 1994)
Early American Writing (Penguin 1994)
Hall, David, ed. The Antinomian Controversy (rpt 1990)
Harris, Sharon M, ed.
American Women Writers to 1800 (Oxford, 1996)
Jehlen, Myra and Michael Warner, The English Literatures of America
(Routledge)
Krise, Thomas. Caribbeana: An Anthology of English Literature of the West
Indies, 1757-1777 (Chicago, 1999)
Kritzer, Amelia, ed.
Plays by Early American Women (U. of Michigan P, 1995)
Lauter, Paul, et al. The Heath Anthology of American Literature, vol. 1
Mancall, Peter, ed. Envisioning America: English Plans for the Colonization
of North America, 1580-1640 (Bedford, 1995)
Martin, Wendy, ed. Colonial American Travel Narratives
Meserole, Harrison, ed.
title 1985)
(Penguin, 1997?)
American Poetry of the Seventeenth Century
(rpt, new
Potkay, Adam and Sandra Burr, eds. Black Atlantic Writers of the Eighteenth
Century (St. Martin’s, 1995)
Richards, Jeffrey.
Early American Drama
(Penguin, 1997)
Slotkin, Richard, and James K. Folsom, eds. So Dreadfull a Judgment: Puritan
Responses to King Philip's War, 1676-1677 (Wesleyan, 1978)
Williams, Daniel E. Pillars of Salt: An Anthology of Early American Criminal
Narratives (Madison House, 1995)