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Informationen zum Autor Kevin J. Hayes was born and raised in Toledo, Ohio. He is the author of many books including A Peep into Korea, An American Cycling Odyssey, 1887, A Colonial Womans Bookshelf, and The Library of William Byrd of Westover, for which he won the Virginia Library History Award presented by the Virginia Center for the Book and the Library of Virginia. Klappentext The Oxford Handbook of Early American Literature is a major new reference work that provides the best single-volume source of original scholarship on early American literature. Comprised of twenty-seven chapters written by experts in their fields, this work presents an authoritative, in-depth, and up-to-date assessment of a crucial area within literary studies. Zusammenfassung The Oxford Handbook of Early American Literature is a major new reference work that provides the best single-volume source of original scholarship on early American literature. Comprised of twenty-seven chapters written by experts in their fields, this work presents an authoritative, in-depth, and up-to-date assessment of a crucial area within literary studies. Inhaltsverzeichnis Notes on the Contributors Introduction Part I Exploration and Promotion 1 The Literature of Exploration - E. Thomson Shields, Jr. 2 Captain John Smith - Steven Olsen-Smith 3 Promotion Literature - Karen Schramm Part II Devotional Literature 4 Puritan Historians and Historiography - Naoki Onishi 5 New England Poetry - Ronald Bosco and Jillmarie Murphy 6 Captivity Literature - Lorrayne Carroll 7 Jonathan Edwards and The Great Awakening - Thomas S. Kidd Part III The Augustan Age in America 8 Augustan American Verse - Chris Beyers 9 Picaresque Travel Narratives -Daniel Royot 10 Dr. Alexander Hamilton - Kevin J. Hayes 11 Indian Voices in Early American Literature - Joshua David Bellin 12 Scientific Discourse - Susan Scott Parrish Part IV Contexts of Reading 13 Newspapers and Magazines - Christine Modey 14 Print and Manuscript Culture - Carla Mulford 15 Early American Libraries - Sarah Fatherly Part V Expressions of Individuality 16 Diaries - Kevin Berland 17 Early American Autobiography - Susan Clair Imbarrato 18 Early American Slave Narratives - April Langley 19 Benjamin Franklin - Kevin J. Hayes Part VI The Revolutionary Era 20 Early American Drama - Jason Shaffer 21 The Literature of Politics - Frank Shuffelton 22 Revolutionary Verse - Colin Wells Part VII Late Eighteenth-Century Prose 23 The Beginnings of the American Novel - Melissa J. Homestead 24 Crèvecoeurs Letters from an American Farmer - David J. Carlson 25 History as Literature - Ed White 26 The Place of Natural History in Early American Literature - Kevin J. Hayes ...