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In this era of shifting geopolitical boundaries, numerous books and articles question what "American" literature is, what "the literary" is, and how what is called early American literature can best be taught. This fifteenth volume of the MLA series Options for Teaching examines these issues and offers approaches and methods to help teachers and their students reconceptualize early American literatures as a complex body of multifaceted works rather than as merely an offshoot of British culture or a putatively American past.

Part 1 consists of both multidisciplinary approaches and more narrowly framed investigations. Some essays discuss the rewards of teaching early American materials from groups not considered dominant--Native Americans, African Americans, women, French and Spanish colonials. Others treat English and Anglo-American writings, including those of the Puritans, the Federalists and Anti-Federalists, and American Enlightenment thinkers. Four essays on genre studies focus on early poetry, fiction, drama, autobiography, and captivity narratives.



In part 2, five teachers describe courses they have taught and give detailed syllabi. Completing the book is a bibliographic essay that reviews existing literature in the areas covered and provides a quick survey of secondary materials.



Designed for teachers at the undergraduate and graduate levels, Teaching the Literatures of Early America shows the rigorous, invigorating, and innovative ways in which scholars and teachers have been addressing the richness and variety of early materials.

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• Acknowledgments(p. xi)
• Introduction(p. 1)
• Part I Issues, Themes, Methods
• Beyond the Boundaries of the Americas
• The Old Wisdom: Introducing Native American Materials(p. 11)
• Diversity and Difference in African American Writings(p. 27)
• Early Women's Texts(p. 48)
• Figuring Multicultural Practice in Early American Literature Classrooms(p. 63)
• Resisting Colonialism(p. 75)
• Spanish and French Colonial Writings
• Colonial Spanish Writings(p. 97)
• Early French North American Writings(p. 112)
• British Colonial and Postcolonial Writings
• The Literature of England's Staple Colonies(p. 129)
• The Literature of Colonial English Puritanism(p. 143)
• The American Enlightenment and Endless Emancipation(p. 155)
• Federalism and Conflict(p. 170)
• Genre Studies
• Early Anglo-American Poetry: Genre, Voice, Art, and Representation(p. 187)
• Early American Prose Fiction and the Anxieties of Affluence(p. 200)
• Early American Drama and Theater(p. 213)
• American Self-Fashioning and the Problems of Autobiography(p. 229)
• Captivity Narratives(p. 243)
• Part II Selected Courses
• The Early American Literature Survey(p. 259)
• Gender, Genre, and Culture: A Two-Quarter Graduate Seminar(p. 272)
• Common Ground on Different Borders: A Comparative Study of Chicano/a and Puritan Writers(p. 297)
• From "The Melting Pot" to Multiculturalism(p. 309)
• New Worlds, 1450-1750: A Historian's Perspective on the Study of Colonial America(p. 321)
• Part III Resources
• Resources for Early American Studies: A Selective Guide(p. 338)
• Notes on Contributors(p. 387)
• Index(p. 393)

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Carla Mulford, associate professor of English at Pennsylvania State University, was the founding president of the Society of Early Americanists and the editor of colonial materials for the canon-shifting Heath Anthology of American Literature (1sted., 1990). Her publications include over twenty-five essays, as well as John Leacock's First Book of the American Chronicles of the Times, 1774-1775 (1987); Only for the Eye of a Friend: The Poems of Annis Boudinot Stockton (1995); a Penguin Classics edition of W. H. Brown's The Power of Sympathy and H. W. Foster's The Coquette (1996); and American Women Prose Writers to 1820 , with Angela Vietto and Amy E. Winans (1998).