Table of Contents:
  • Pt. 1. Issues, themes, methods. The old wisdom : introducing Native American materials / James Ruppert
  • Diversity and difference in African American writings / Amy E. Winans
  • Early women's texts / Sharon M. Harris
  • Figuring multicultural practice in early American literature classrooms / Pattie Cowell
  • Resisting colonialism / Carla Mulford
  • Colonial Spanish writings / E. Thomson Shields, Jr., and Dana D. Nelson
  • Early French North American writings / Rosalie Murphy Baum
  • The literature of England's staple colonies / David S. Shields
  • The literature of colonial English Puritanism / Philip F. Gura
  • The American Enlightenment and endless emancipation / Frank Shuffelton.
  • Federalism and conflict / Nicholas D. Rombes
  • Early Anglo-American poetry : genre, voice, art, and representation / William J. Scheick
  • Early American prose fiction and the anxieties of affluence / Joseph Fichtelberg
  • Early American drama and theater / Jeffrey H. Richards
  • American self-fashioning and the problems of autobiography / Gregory Eiselein
  • Captivity narratives / Kathryn Zabelle Derounian-Stodola
  • Pt. 2. Selected courses. The early American literature survey / Russell Reising
  • Gender, genre, and culture : a two-quarter graduate seminar / Karen E. Rowe
  • Common ground on different borders : a comparative study of Chicano/a and Puritan writers / Josâe F. Aranda, Jr.
  • From "the melting pot" to multiculturalism / Dennis D. Moore
  • New worlds, 1450-1750 : a historian's perspective on the study of colonial America / Gary L. Hewitt
  • Resources for early American studies : a selective guide / Edward J. Gallagher.