American Colonial Literature

AMERICAN COLONIAL LITERATURE (1620-1800)
Works consulted
Baym, N. gen. ed. The Norton Anthology of American Literature. New York: WW Norton, 1998 (e
successive). Literature to 1620: John Smith (102-119); Early American Literature 1620-1820:
William Bradford (164-204); Anne Bradstreet (246-281); Mary Rowlandson (297-329); Phillis
Wheatley (824-840)
Cunliffe, M. Storia della letteratura americana. Torino: Einaudi, 1990 (e successive). I° vol.:
Introduzione (3-20), I: America coloniale (21-50), II: Premesse e problemi dell’ indipendenza (5186);
Fink, G., Maffi, M., Minganti, F., Tarozzi B., a c. di. Storia della Letteratura americana. Firenze:
Sansoni, 1991 (e successive). Parte I: Dal Mayflower alla Rivoluzione (1-54).
Ford, B. ed. The New Pelican Guide to English Literature. Penguin: London and New York, 1991 (e
successive. Vol. 9 “American Literature”, part 1: Literatue and Society in Colonial America (3-29);
Pearce, R.H., ed. Colonial American Writing. New York-Chicago-San Francisco . (“The Voyager”;
“The Pilgrim”; “the Puritan”; “Puritan Poetry”);
Stern, M.L. and Gross, S.L. ed. American Literature Survey. Harmondsworth and New York:
Penguin (Viking Portable Library) 1978 (e successive). Vol. I Colonial and Federal to 1800 (parti su
John Smith, William Bradford, Mary Rowlandon, Anne Bradstreet);
Web-sites
John Smith, A Description of New England (1616)
http://digitalcommons.unl.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1003&context=etas
http://historyofmassachusetts.org/captain-john-smith-describes-early-massachusetts/
William Bradford: History of Plymouth Plantation
http://faculty.gordon.edu/hu/bi/ted_hildebrandt/nereligioushistory/bradford-plimoth/bradfordplymouthplantation.pdf
http://mith.umd.edu//eada/html/display.php?docs=bradford_history.xml
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1650bradford.asp
Mayflower Compact (text)
http://faculty.gordon.edu/hu/bi/ted_hildebrandt/NEReligiousHistory/BradfordPlimoth/Bradford-PlymouthPlantation.pdf
http://www.swarthmore.edu/SocSci/bdorsey1/41docs/14-bra.html
Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson
http://www.gutenberg.org/files/851/851-h/851-h.htm
http://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/851/pg851.txt
http://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/851/pg851.txt
http://archive.org/search.php?query=creator%3AMary%20White%20Rowlandson
Anne Bradstreet (poems)
http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/175747
http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/172954
http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/172955
http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/23508#sthash.VTty8IQ1.dpuf
http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/20859#sthash.4EezxwpN.dpuf
http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/16069#sthash.eVVcedb1.dpuf
Phillis Wheatley (poems)
http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/phillis-wheatley
http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/phillis-wheatley#about
http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/174733
http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/236688
http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/16360#sthash.a60zgyBY.dpuf

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