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Worlding America : A Transnational Anthology of Short Narratives Before 1800.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Redwood City : Stanford University Press, 2014Copyright date: ©2015Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (264 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780804792592
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Worlding AmericaDDC classification:
  • 808.8/03587003
LOC classification:
  • PN845
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- 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.
Summary: The book takes a new approach to the history and movement of short narratives in a global context by exploring the diverse textual economies in the Americas before 1800 through a combination of scholarly commentary and original sources.
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Intro -- 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.

The book takes a new approach to the history and movement of short narratives in a global context by exploring the diverse textual economies in the Americas before 1800 through a combination of scholarly commentary and original sources.

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