Worlding America : a transnational anthology of short narratives before 1800 / edited and with an introduction and critical notes by Oliver Scheiding and Martin Seidl.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Scheiding, Oliver, Author.

Contributor:

Scheiding, Oliver, editor, writer of introduction.

Seidl, Martin (Martin Johannes), editor, writer of introduction.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

America--Literatures--17th century.

America.

America--Literatures--18th century.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (264 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, 2015.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

<div><i>Worlding America</i> 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 of stories from various backgrounds and demonstrates how forms and themes developed in a new literary market that spanned the Atlantic world.<br><br>While short narratives prior to 1800 have been largely excluded from critical discussions as well as anthologies, they give insight into t

Contents:

Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; A Note on the Text; Introduction; Part I: Life Writing; Travel; Paul Le Jeune. Relation of What Occurred in New France in the Year 1633 (1643); Edward Taylor. An Atlantic Voyage (1668); Christopher Sauer. An Early Description of Pennsylvania and the Sea Voyage from Europe (1724); Misadventure; Anthony Thacher. The Shipwreck of Anthony Thacher (1684); Carlos de Sigüenza y Góngora. The Misfortunes of Alonso Ramírez (1690); Confessions; Owen Syllavan. A Short Account of the Life of John-Alias Owen Syllavan (1756)

Thomas Powers. The Narrative and Confession of Thomas Powers, A Negro (1796)Part II: Female Agency; Captivities; Marie Le Roy and Barbara Leininger. The Narrative of Marie le Roy and Barbara Leininger, for Three Years Captives among the Indians (1759); Cotton Mather. A Narrative of a Notable Deliverance from Captivity (1697); Anonymous [Nathaniel Hawthorne]. The Duston Family (1836); Authorship; Antonetta [Margaretta V. Faugeres]. Inhuman Treatment to a Negro Slave (1791); Ann Eliza Bleecker. Story of Henry and Anne: Founded on Fact (1791); Part III: The Circum-Atlantic World; Slavery

Anonymous. Negro Trade: A Fragment (1787)[Jean-François de Saint-Lambert]. Zimeo: A Tale (1789); Entrepreneurs; Antiphilus [Pseudonym]. Memoirs of a Spy (1798); Philip Freneau. The Inexorable Captain: A Short Story (1788); Part IV: Cultures of Print; Orientalism; Anonymous: Firnaz and Mirvan: An Eastern Tale (1792); Sabina [Pseudonym]. Louisa: A Novel (1790); Migrant Fictions; [Nicholas Bricaire de la Dixmerie]. Azakia: A Canadian Story (1783); Anonymous: The Child of the Snow (1792); Sensationalism

Anna [Pseudonym]. An Account of a Murder Committed by Mr. J.- Y.-, Upon His Family, in December, A.D. 1781 (1796)Anonymous [Jean-Pierre Claris de Florian]. Valeria: An Italian Tale (1799); Part V: Ghost Stories; Ghosts; Cotton Mather. A Narrative of an Apparition which a Gentleman in Boston, had of his Brother, just then Murdered in London (1692); Anonymous: The Ghost of Falkner Swamp (1744); Chiricahua. A Chiricahua Woman Visits the Underworld (n.d.); Legends; Anonymous [Anna Lætitia Barbauld]. Sir Bertrand: A Fragment. By Mrs. Barbauld (1787)

Washington Irving. The Devil and Tom Walker (1824)Myth; K'iche' Maya. A Maiden's Story (c. 1524); Penobscot. Corn Mother (n.d.); Benjamin Franklin. The Origin of Tobacco (1784); Works Cited

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780804792592

0804792593

OCLC:

923709607