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A companion to the literatures of colonial America.


9781405112918

A companion to the literatures of colonial America.

Ed. by Susan Castillo Susan Castillo (born August 14 1951) heads the Oregon Department of Education as the Superintendent of Public Instruction.[1] Although she currently holds an elective statewide non-partisan office, she is a Democrat, and served from 1997 to 2003 in the Oregon State  and Ivy Schweitzer.

Blackwell Publishing

2005

608 pages

$134.95

Hardcover

Blackwell companions to literature and culture

PS185

Thirty-plus original scholarly essays provide a broad general introduction to the literatures produced in the American hemisphere during the colonial period Colonial Period may generally refer to any period in a country's history when it was subject to administration by a colonial power.
  • Korea under Japanese rule
  • Colonial America
See also
  • Colonialism
. Particular emphasis is placed on the interactions between native groups and Europeans that helped to shape early writing in the New World. The volume is intended to be used in conjunction with The Literatures of Colonial America: An Anthology (Blackwell, 2001), also edited by Castillo (American literature American literature, literature in English produced in what is now the United States of America. Colonial Literature


American writing began with the work of English adventurers and colonists in the New World chiefly for the benefit of readers in
, Glasgow U.) and Schweitzer (English, Dartmouth College Dartmouth College, at Hanover, N.H.; coeducational; chartered 1769, opened 1770, the ninth colonial college (see Wheelock, Eleazar). Originally a men's college, Dartmouth began admitting women in 1972. ).

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