CONTENTS.--no. 1. Papers concerning the attack on Hatfield and Deerfield, by a party of Indians from Canada, September nineteenth, 1677 [ed. by F.B. Hough] 1859.--no. 2. The Croakers, by J.R. Drake and F.G. Halleck. 1860.--no. 3. The operations of the French fleet under the Count de Grasse in 1781-2 as described in two contemporaneous journals [ed. by J.D.G. Shea] 1864.--[extra no.] Memorial of John Allan [by E.A. Duyckinck] 1864.--no. 4. Anthology of New Netherland; or, Translations from the early Dutch poets of New York; by H.C. Murphy. 1865--no. 5. Narratives of the career of Hernando de Soto in the conquest of Florida ... tr. by B. Smith. 1866.--no. 6. The northern invasion of October, 1780; a series of papers ... with an introduction and notes by F.B. Hough. 1866.--no. 7. The army correspondence of Colonel John Laurens in the years 1777-8, with a memoir by W.G. Simms. 1867.

"Early American Literature and Culture: Essays Honoring Harrison T. Meserole, a timely collection that reflects changing conceptions of the field, contains studies by leading scholars and celebrates the achievements of Harrison T. Meserole--colonialist, bibliographer, and Shakespeare scholar extraordinaire. These dynamic essays deal with areas at the forefront of current research, such as popular culture, minority and non-Anglo writings, recanonization, genre studies, and Anglo-American links. All the contributors were Meserole's students sometime during the twenty-eight years he taught at The Pennsylvania State University, and all have established their own scholarly reputations since then." "Timothy K. Conley examines the institutionalization of American literature. Donald P. Wharton considers the influence of the English Renaissance on Colonial sea literature. Paul J. Lindholdt provides an overview of a vast popular genre, the colonial promotion tract." "Raymond F. Dolle uncovers the satire against Sir Walter Raleigh, the romantic treasure-seeker, by his more hard-nosed contemporary, John Smith. Reiner Smolinski's revisionist essay argues that New England's leading divines did not--as many still believe--justify their Errand eschatologically. Ada Van Gastel discusses the main text of the early Dutch colonists, by Adriaen van der Donck." "Kathryn Zabelle Derounian-Stodola analyzes Sarah Kemble Knight's travel journal as an unusual example of a Puritan picaresque. Jeffrey Walker probes eighteenth-century undergraduate commonplace books revealing the seamy side of Harvard undergraduate life. Stephen R. Yarbrough examines Jonathan Edwards's conceptions of time in the last work he saw to press before he died." "Robert D. Arner introduces and annotates two unpublished poems by the Samuel Pepys of eighteenth-century Virginia, Robert Bolling. Robert D. Habich explores Franklin's rhetorical method as rooted in contemporary empirical science. Cheryl Z. Oreovicz shows how Mercy Warren's tragedies contained stern messages for the post-Revolutionary "Lost generation."" "Jayne K. Kribbs looks at the popular novelist John Davis as a candidate for recanonization, and Paul Sorrentino shows that Mason Lock Weems's so-called children's classic, The Life of Washington, is a complex, artistic work for adults."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

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