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Worlding America : a transnational anthology of short narratives before 1800 /

Worlding America explores the circulation of short narratives in the early Americas through a combination of neglected primary materials and scholarly commentary. Building on recent reconsiderations of American literature in light of transnational and hemispheric approaches, it follows the migration...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Scheiding, Oliver (Editor ), Seidl, Martin (Martin Johannes) (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, 2014.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Relation of what occurred in New France in the year 1633 (1634) / Paul Le Jeune
  • An Atlantic voyage (1668) / Edward Taylor
  • An early description of Pennsylvania and the sea voyage from Europe (1724) / Christopher Sauer
  • The shipwreck of Anthony Thacher (1684) / Anthony Thacher
  • The misfortunes of Alonso Ramírez (1690) / Carlos de Sigüenza y Góngora
  • A short account of the life of John, alias Owen Syllavan (1756) / Owen Syllavan
  • The narrative and confession of Thomas Powers, a Negro (1796) / Thomas Powers
  • The narrative of Marie Le Roy and Barbara Leininger, for three years captives among the Indians (1759) / Marie Le Roy and Barbara Leininger
  • A narrative of a notable deliverance from captivity (1697) / Cotton Mather
  • The Duston family (1836) / Anonymous [Nathaniel Hawthorne]
  • Inhuman treatment to a Negro slave (1791) / Antonetta [Margaretta V. Faugeres]
  • Story of Henry and Anne : founded on fact (1791) / Ann Eliza Bleecker
  • Negro trade : a fragment (1787) / Anonymous
  • Zimeo : a tale (1789) / Anonymous [Jean-François de Saint-Lambert]
  • Memoirs of a spy (1798) / Antiphilus [pseudonym]
  • The inexorable captain : a short story (1788) / Philip Freneau
  • Firnaz and Mirvan : an eastern tale (1792) / Anonymous
  • Louisa : a novel (1790) / Sabina [pseudonym]
  • Azakia : a Canadian story (1783) / Anonymous [Nicolas Bricaire de la Dixmerie]
  • The child of snow (1792) / Anonymous
  • An account of a murder committed by Mr. J.
  • Y
  • , upon his family, in December, A.D. 1781 (1796) / Anna [pseudonym]
  • Valeria : an Italian tale (1799) / Anonymous [Jean-Pierre Claris de Florian]
  • A narrative of an apparition which a gentleman in Boston, had of his brother, just then murdered in London (1692) / Cotton Mather
  • The ghost of Falkner Swamp (1744) / Anonymous
  • A Chiricahua woman visits the underworld (n.d.) / Chiricahua
  • Sir Bertrand : a fragment, by Mrs. Barbauld (1787) / Anonymous [Anna Lætitia Barbauld]
  • The devil and Tom Walker (1824) / Washington Irving
  • A maiden's story (c. 1524) / K'iche' Maya
  • Corn mother (n.d.) / Penobscot
  • The origin of tobacco (1784) / Benjamin Franklin.