By Karen Meyers
As American literature built, it was once prompted via a few elements, resembling the wasteland, non secular ideals, rules approximately morality, and Enlightenment philosophy. masking the 1st three hundred years of yank literature in addition to the literature of the Puritans, the yankee Enlightenment, the yank Revolution, and extra, this quantity discusses the writers and works of the yankee colonial and innovative sessions. Writers lined contain: Joel Barlow, William Bradford, Anne Bradstreet, Hannah Webster Foster, Olaudah Equiano, Cotton Mather, Thomas Paine, Edward Taylor, Phillis Wheatley, Roger Williams, John Winthrop, and extra.
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