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What is “EARLY” “AMERICAN” “LITERATURE” ?

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Page 1: What is “EARLY” “AMERICAN” “LITERATURE”?. Robert E. Spiller, The Roots of National Culture: American Literature to 1830. (1949)

What is

“EARLY” “AMERICAN”

“LITERATURE”?

Page 2: What is “EARLY” “AMERICAN” “LITERATURE”?. Robert E. Spiller, The Roots of National Culture: American Literature to 1830. (1949)

Robert E. Spiller, The Roots of National Culture: American Literature to 1830.

(1949)

Page 3: What is “EARLY” “AMERICAN” “LITERATURE”?. Robert E. Spiller, The Roots of National Culture: American Literature to 1830. (1949)

Nina Baym, ed. The Norton Anthology of American Literature. 3rd ed. (1989)

Page 4: What is “EARLY” “AMERICAN” “LITERATURE”?. Robert E. Spiller, The Roots of National Culture: American Literature to 1830. (1949)

Paul Lauter, ed. The Heath Anthology of

American Literature. 3rd ed. (1998)

Page 5: What is “EARLY” “AMERICAN” “LITERATURE”?. Robert E. Spiller, The Roots of National Culture: American Literature to 1830. (1949)

Carla Mulford, ed. Early American

Writings. 1st ed. (2002)

Page 6: What is “EARLY” “AMERICAN” “LITERATURE”?. Robert E. Spiller, The Roots of National Culture: American Literature to 1830. (1949)

Drawing of a carved wall panel from Lacanha,

Mexico. Source: Elizabeth Boon Hill,

“Introduction: Writing and Recording

Knowledge.” Writing Without Words. 18.

Page 7: What is “EARLY” “AMERICAN” “LITERATURE”?. Robert E. Spiller, The Roots of National Culture: American Literature to 1830. (1949)

The Walum Olum or the Red Score of the Lenape. Source: The Multilingual

Anthology of American Literature. Eds. Shell and Sollors. 98-99.

Page 8: What is “EARLY” “AMERICAN” “LITERATURE”?. Robert E. Spiller, The Roots of National Culture: American Literature to 1830. (1949)

John Eliot, “Christian Covenanting Confession.” Congregational Library,

Boston. Source: The Multilingual Anthology of American Literature. 2.

Page 9: What is “EARLY” “AMERICAN” “LITERATURE”?. Robert E. Spiller, The Roots of National Culture: American Literature to 1830. (1949)

Samson Occom, Engraving by Ridley & Blood, 1802. Source: U of Pennsylvania

Special Collections.

Page 10: What is “EARLY” “AMERICAN” “LITERATURE”?. Robert E. Spiller, The Roots of National Culture: American Literature to 1830. (1949)

Samson Occom, “Address to his Indian Brethren.” Broadside. 1772. Source:

American Antiquarian Society.

Page 11: What is “EARLY” “AMERICAN” “LITERATURE”?. Robert E. Spiller, The Roots of National Culture: American Literature to 1830. (1949)

Francis Daniel Pastorius, “Title Page in Seven Languages.” The Bee-Hive. Source:

U of Pennsylvania Special Collections.

Page 12: What is “EARLY” “AMERICAN” “LITERATURE”?. Robert E. Spiller, The Roots of National Culture: American Literature to 1830. (1949)

Declaration of Independence. German. Printing by Steiner & Cist. July 5, 1776.