Early American Literatures

Catalog description

The literature of diverse civilizations in contact; Indigenous, European, and African diasporic cultural productions in North America from the pre-Columbian era to the early national period in the development of U.S.-American literature. Major authors may include Bartolome de las Casas, John Winthrop, Anne Bradstreet, Benjamin Franklin, Phillis Wheatley Peters, Judith Sargent Murray, and Black Hawk.