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Various. A Manual of American Literature
A Manual of American Literature
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Colonial Literature. and. The Literature of the Revolutionary Period
A Manual of American Literature
COLONIAL LITERATURE
I. FIRST PERIOD (1607–1676)
II. SECOND PERIOD (1676–1765)
III. GENERAL LITERARY FORCES IN THE COLONIAL TIME
THE REVOLUTIONARY PERIOD
I. A GENERAL VIEW
II. THE PRINCIPAL WRITERS
THE NINETEENTH CENTURY
I. THE HISTORIANS
II. THE NOVELISTS
III. THE POETS
IV. THE ESSAYISTS AND THE HUMOURISTS
V. THE ORATORS AND THE DIVINES
VI. THE SCIENTISTS
VII. THE PERIODICALS
AMERICAN AUTHORS REPRESENTED IN THE TAUCHNITZ EDITION
INDEX
FOOTNOTES
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The Two Periods.—I have taken the year 1676 as the year of partition between the two periods into which our colonial age seems to fall. Before 1676, the new civilisation in America was principally in the hands of Americans born in England; after 1676, it was principally in the hands of Americans born in America, and the subjects of such training as was to be had here. Our first colonial period, therefore, transmits to us a body of writings produced by immigrant Americans; preserving for us the ideas, the moods, the efforts, the very phrases of the men who founded the American nation; representing to us, also, the earliest literary results flowing from the reactions of life in the New World upon an intellectual culture formed in the Old World. Our second colonial period does more: it transmits to us a body of writings, produced in the main by the American children of those immigrants, and representing the earliest literary results flowing from the reactions of life in the New World upon an intellectual culture that was itself formed in the New World.
