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American Colonial Writers, 1606-1734. Vol 24, Dictionary of Literary Biography

Edited by Emory Elliott (NHC Fellow, 1979–80)

American Literature; Authors; Thirteen Colonies; Primary Sources; Intellectual History

Detroit, MI: Gale Research Co., 1984

From the publisher’s description:

The earliest of the American writers, the colonials, were truly voices in the wilderness-authors of a literary heritage largely overlooked until early in the 20th century. It was then that the literary merits of sermons, autobiographies, histories, diaries, poems and elegies from the 1600s and early 1700s were seriously reassessed in light of a more sophisticated historical understanding. With this re-examination came new discoveries and a greater appreciation for the imaginative range of the Puritan mind, presented in this volume's 95 entries covering major voices of the period as well as some of the more elusive figures from America's literary past.

Subjects
Literature / History / American Literature / Authors / Thirteen Colonies / Primary Sources / Intellectual History /

Elliott, Emory (NHC Fellow, 1979–80), ed. American Colonial Writers, 1606-1734. Vol 24, Dictionary of Literary Biography. Detroit, MI: Gale Research Co., 1984.