Recently added articles from Early American Literature:
Greetings.(David S. Shields' tenure)
Jan 01, 2009; ... With this issue I step into the editorship of Early American Literature held by David S. Shields from 1998 to 2008. His shoes are big ones to fill. David oversaw the journal at a time of robust growth in the field of early American studies, and this growth was importantly fuelled by his ...
Cotton Mather's "Dora": the case history of Mercy Short.(Critical essay)
Jan 01, 2009; ... "The frequency of hysteria is not less remarkable than the multiformity of the shapes which it puts on." --Robert Sydenham (1624-98) Mercy Short, a 15-year-old, orphaned servant girl, is one of the most puzzling and intriguing figures to emerge from the witchcraft ...
"GOD ne'er brings to pafs fuch things for nought": empire and Prince Madoc of Wales in Eighteenth-century America.(Critical essay)
Jan 01, 2009; ... In 1734, a poem titled "Upon Prince Madoc's Expedition to the Country now called America, in the 12th Century" appeared in the Philadelphia-based American Weekly Mercury. According to the legend from which the poem takes its subject, in the year 1170 A.D., Madoc, the youngest son of Welsh ...
From Holy Land to New England Canaan: Rabbi Haim Carigal and Sephardic itinerant Preaching in the eighteenth century.(Critical essay)
Jan 01, 2009; ... It was late Thursday morning, 28 May 1773, and Rev. Ezra Stiles, minister of the Second Congregational Church, was attending Synagogue. It was not the first time Stiles had been to the Newport Esnoga; in fact, he was present on Chanukah 1763 (5524) when the magnificent building of Yeshuat ...
"A variety of domestic misfortunes": writing the dysfunctional self in early America.(Critical essay)
Jan 01, 2009; ... On the title page of her Memoirs (1810) Elizabeth Munro Fisher promised the prospective reader that in the following pages she would reveal "a particular account of a variety of domestic misfortunes" that had befallen her, in particular the unsavory details of her property dispute with ...
"Make your minds perfectly easy": Sagoyewatha and the great law of the Hadenosaunee.(Critical essay)
Jan 01, 2009; ... Of all the Native orators of the early nineteenth century, Sagoyewatha (pronounced Shay-go-ye-watha or Sa-go-ye-wat-ha) was one of the most famous in Angloamerica. Better known as Red Jacket, for the red coat given to him by the British for his services as a message runner in the ...
New Equiana.(Olaudah Equiano)(Critical essay)
Jan 01, 2009; ... The twenty-one eighteenth- and nineteenth-century writings by, and references to, Olaudah Equiano (Gustavus Vassa) listed as follows have been discovered since the publication of Olaudah Equiano, The Interesting Narrative and Other Writings (New York: Penguin USA, 1995; revised and ...
Cosmography's promise and Richard Hakluyt's world.(Hakluyt's Promise: An Elizabethan's Obsession for an English America)(Book review)
Jan 01, 2009; ... Hakluyt's Promise: An Elizabethan's Obsession for an English America PETER C. MANCALL New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2007 xii, 378 pp. Richard Hakluyt, the younger (1552?-1616) was a famous man in his own day, regularly called upon for his ...
American primer: religion in early American studies.(A Republic of Mind and Spirit: A Cultural History of American Metaphysical Religion)(Theology in America: Christian Thought from the Age of the Puritans to the Civil War)(America's God: From Jonathan Edwards to Abraham Lincoln)(Book review)
Jan 01, 2009; ... A Republic of Mind and Spirit: A Cultural History of American Metaphysical Religion CATHERINE L. ALBANESE New Haven: Yale University Press, 2007 xi, 628 pp. Theology in America: Christian Thought from the Age of the Puritans to the Civil War ...
Where do we go from here? Early American Women and the End(s) of Feminist Critique.(Feminist Interventions in Early American Studies)(Reading Women: Literacy, Authorship, and Culture in the Atlantic World, 1500-1800)(Book review)
Jan 01, 2009; ... Feminist Interventions in Early American Studies EDITED BY MARY C. CARRUTH Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2006 352 pp. Reading Women: Literacy, Authorship, and Culture in the Atlantic World, 1500-1800 EDITED BY ...
History of x in Early America.(Rape and Sexual Power in Early America)(Sex among the Rabble: An Intimate History of Gender and Power in the Age of Revolution, Philadelphia, 1730-1830)(Book review)
Jan 01, 2009; ... Rape and Sexual Power in Early America SHARON BLOCK Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2006 276 pp. Sex among the Rabble: An Intimate History of Gender and Power in the Age of Revolution, Philadelphia, 1730-1830 CLARE ...
James Fenimore Cooper: The Early Years.(Book review)
Jan 01, 2009; ... James Fenimore Cooper: The Early Years WAYNE FRANKLIN New Haven: Yale University Press, 2007 752 pp. James Fenimore Cooper's status in American literary history is something of an enigma. He wrote a prodigious number of novels, 32 in all, and ...
Shires and Sachems: languages of political theory in Dutch and English narratives of contact.(Essay)
Sep 22, 2008; ... In New England's Prospect, William Wood begins his ethnographic account of the Algonquians in New England by invoking a territorial concept familiar to his readers: "The country as it is in relation to the Indians, is divided as it were into Shires, every severall division being swayed by ...
The "Black Hole of Calcutta" in Charles Brockden Brown's America: American exceptionalism and India in Edgar Huntly.(Critical essay)
Sep 22, 2008; ... Edgar Huntly (1799) is an early American novel obsessed on many levels with the consequences of following. In the preface to the novel, Charles Brockden Brown promises to break away from European literary models and to craft an exceptionally American novel. In the interior, continental ...
Figurative surveying: national space and the Nantucket chapters of J. Hector St. John de Crevecoeur's Letters from an American Farmer.(Critical essay)
Sep 22, 2008; ... In Letters from an American Farmer, 1. Hector St. John de Crevecoeur figuratively surveys various regions of the fledgling United States and rhetorically manipulates geographic spatial categories in an attempt to define what he sees as exceptional about the American project. What ...
Diedrich Knickerbocker, regular bred historian.(Critical essay)
Sep 22, 2008; ... Washington Irving has been a casualty of chronology. More precisely, he has been a casualty of a particular way of thinking about history: the notion that history progresses through chronological, linear time. (1) For if one of the stories of the literature of the United States is the ...
Killing Tom Coffin: rethinking the nationalist narrative in James Fenimore Cooper's The Pilot.(Critical essay)
Sep 22, 2008; ... [T]hese waves, to me, are what the land is to you; I was born on them, and I have always meant that they should be my grave. --James Fenimore Cooper, The Pilot Set during the Revolutionary War, James Fenimore Cooper's first maritime novel, The Pilot (1824), is a ...
Edwards and Eve: finding feminist strains in the great awakening's patriarch.(Jonathan Edwards)(Critical essay)
Sep 22, 2008; ... If casual readers remember Jonathan Edwards, they remember him for the fiery sermons that were so coolly received by his Northampton, Massachusetts, congregation. Most Americans remain unaware of the voluminous and variegated writings he left behind; as Sydney Ahlstrom wryly notes, ...
Reincarnating Samuel Woodworth: Native American Prophets, the Nation, and the War of 1812.(The Champions of Freedom)(Critical essay)
Sep 22, 2008; ... On 11 July 1937, the San Francisco Chronicle published a short article describing the empty and decaying tomb of the early nineteenth-century writer Samuel Woodworth. Sentimental and nostalgic, the article deliberately echoes Woodworth's most famous work, a song called "The Bucket," more ...
Captivity, liberty, and early American consciousness.(Liberty's Captives: Narratives of Confinement in the Print Culture of the Early Republic, The Jefferson City Editorial Project, The Captive's Position: Female Narrative, Male Identity, and Royal Authority in Colonial New England and Rhetorical Drag: Gender Impersonation, Captivity, and the Writing of History)(Book review)
Sep 22, 2008; ... Liberty's Captives: Narratives of Confinement in the Print Culture of the Early Republic: The Jefferson City Editorial Project Edited by DANIEL E. WILLIAMS Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2006 322 pp. The Captive's Position: Female ...