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To the readers of Early American Literature.(Editorial)

Jan 01, 2008; Shields, David S. ... With this volume I close my term as editor of Early American Literature. Like my predecessor, Philip Gura, I have served as interlocutor of the scholarly conversation of this field for a decade. From 1998 through 2008, it was my privilege to read the newest thoughts of a scholarly ...

New Spain, New England, and the New Jerusalem: the "translation" of empire, faith, and learning (translatio imperii, fidei ac scientiae) in the colonial missionary project.(Essay)

Jan 01, 2008; Boruchoff, David A. ... In religion, as in love, the burden of disillusion is most difficult to bear when it results, not from doubt as to the preeminence of one's objectives and aspirations, but instead from the sense that one cannot achieve them. Hope is a terrible thing to lose, particularly when one still ...

"Learn to love your book": the child reader and affectionate citizenship.(Critical essay)

Jan 01, 2008; Weikle-Mills, Courtney A. ... In one of the first children's books to cross the Atlantic, The Child's New Play-Thing (1750), a child character asks how he is to become a good citizen. The answer: he must learn to "love his book" and to keep company only with other children who do the same (73). This lesson signaled a ...

Human nature delineated: Richard Lewis's A Rhapsody.(Critical essay)

Jan 01, 2008; Tamer, Nanette C. ... Richard Lewis, best known as a nature poet for his topographical poem "A Journey from Patapsko to Annapolis, April 4, 1730," examines human nature in his poem A Rhapsody, which appeared in the following year. In A Rhapsody, Lewis versifies a then well-known prayer from English deist ...

Jose Alvarez de Toledo y Dubois and the origins of Hispanic publishing in the early American Republic.(Essay)

Jan 01, 2008; Kanellos, Nicolas ... Publication of books and periodicals by Hispanics living in the early American republic began in three cities: New Orleans, Philadelphia, and New York. An examination of more than one hundred books and pamphlets published (1) between 1800 and 1820 in these cities reveals that the motive ...

"Proper subjects for public inquiry": the first Unitarian Controversy and the transformation of Federalist print culture.(Essay)

Jan 01, 2008; Miller, Neil Brody ... In November 1804, a pseudonymous group of writers addressed the readers of the Columbian Centinel and Massachusetts Federalist regarding the solicitation of public funds for a proposed chair in natural philosophy at Harvard College. While "Several Subscribers" lauded the plan as a "useful ...

Jay Fliegelman.(In memoriam)

Jan 01, 2008; Shields, David S. ... "The best obits dissolve character to discover personality. There must be some ceremony, for the candor to make an impression." Sometimes the designs of Providence are odd. Last October 2006, I sat in a hotel lounge with Jay Fliegelman during a break at the American Studies ...

About my friend, Jay Fliegelman.(In memoriam)

Jan 01, 2008; Weber, Donald ... I wonder how many of Jay's friends know that as a teenager in the early '60s he was an aspiring journalist writing on popular culture? He profiled Sean Connery at the height of the James Bond craze; he wrote about would-be disk jockeys training at the BBC's London School of Broadcasting at ...

Constellating associations: Jay Fliegelman and critical method.(Essay)

Jan 01, 2008; Levine, Robert S. ... I reread lay Fliegelman's two extraordinary books during the summer of 2007, and I finished Declaring Independence just days before receiving the sad news of his untimely death at age 58. Jay was an idiosyncratic and intuitive scholar who said little about methodological issues ....

History, literature, and the Atlantic world.(Essay)

Jan 01, 2008; Slauter, Eric ... During the past decade, literary scholars have produced an impressive list of books and articles in the emerging field of Atlantic literary history. Atlantic historians, however, rarely acknowledge this work and have moved away from the issues of identity and expression that made literary ...

Atlantic history and interdisciplinary approaches.(Essay)

Jan 01, 2008; Games, Alison ... Eric Slauter has taken an inventive approach to two difficult and important questions: how do historians and literary scholars make sense of each other's work, and how can we spark more satisfactory conversations among ourselves? I am grateful to him for the thoughtful analysis he has ...

From text/context to "situatedness" in Atlantic history and literature.

Jan 01, 2008; Waterman, Bryan ... Two anecdotes from the recent Society of Early Americanists/ Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture joint conference in Williamsburg frame my response to Eric Slauter's provocative survey of the Atlantic studies disciplinary trade gap. First, my experience as a panel ...

Atlantic history and the literary turn.(Essay)

Jan 01, 2008; Gould, Eliga H. ... Atlantic history is a notoriously fluid construct. There is no static historical unit for Atlantic historians to analyze, no one religion, culture, or political tradition shared by what Bernard Bailyn calls the basin's "multitudinous ... people and circumstances," and, despite the field's ...

Atlantic practices: minding the gap between literature and history.(Essay)

Jan 01, 2008; Dillon, Elizabeth ... To the ear of the literary scholar, a plaintive note rings with particular clarity throughout Eric Slauter's analysis of the trade gap between literary and historical scholarship on the Atlantic world. Literary scholarship, Slauter demonstrates, exhibits an unrequited interest in the work ...

American Women Critics: Performance, Religion, Race.(Book review)

Jan 01, 2008; Bassard, Katherine Clay ... Early American Women Critics: Performance, Religion, Race GAY GIBSON CIMA Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006 241 pp. In Early American Women Critics, Gay Gibson Cima performs the important work of both recovering the texts of unknown, ...

New World, Known World: Shaping Knowledge in Early Anglo-American Writing.(Book review)

Jan 01, 2008; Egan, Jim ... New World, Known World: Shaping Knowledge in Early Anglo-American Writing DAVID READ Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2005 177 pp. In New World, Known World: Shaping Knowledge in Early Anglo-American Writing, David Read wants to promote ...

A Most Amazing Scene of Wonders: Electricity and Enlightenment in Early America.(Book review)

Jan 01, 2008; Iannini, Christopher ... A Most Amazing Scene of Wonders: Electricity and Enlightenment in Early America JAMES DELBOURGO Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2006 367 pp. James Delbourgo's incisive and superbly written new book joins a growing body of ...

Catharine Macaulay and Mercy Otis Warren: The Revolutionary Atlantic and the Politics of Gender.

Jan 01, 2008; Rust, Marion ... Catharine Macaulay and Mercy Otis Warren: The Revolutionary Atlantic and the Politics of Gender KATE DAVIES New York: Oxford University Press, 2005 336 pp. Kate Davies enters into a flourishing critical discourse with her investigation into the ...

Collected Writings of Samson Occom, Mohegan: Leadership and Literature in Eighteenth-Century Native America.(American Indian Nonfiction: An Anthology of Writings, 1760s-1930s)(Book review)

Jan 01, 2008; Sayre, Gordon M. ... Collected Writings of Samson Occom, Mohegan: Leadership and Literature in Eighteenth-Century Native America EDITED BY JOANNA BROOKS, WITH A FOREWORD BY ROBERT WARRIOR New York: Oxford University Press, 2006 445 PP. American Indian Nonfiction: An ...

Quixotic Fictions of the USA, 1792-1815.(Book review)

Jan 01, 2008; Scanlan, Thomas ... Quixotic Fictions of the USA, 1792-1815 SARAH F. WOOD New York: Oxford University Press, 2005 xiv, 295 pp. In her straightforwardly tided study, Sarah F. Wood explores the influence of Cervantes's magnum opus on American letters during the ...