The Cambridge Companion to Early American Literature - Title page

pp iii-iii

Copyright page

pp iv-iv

Contents

pp v-vi

Figures

pp vii-vii

Contributors

pp viii-x

Introduction

pp 1-14

Part I - How to Read (in) Early America

pp 15-114

1 - How to Read Things That Weren’t Written Down in Early America

pp 17-31

2 - How to Read the Natural World

pp 32-48

3 - How to Read Early American Poetry

pp 49-67

4 - How to Read Gender in Early America

pp 68-82

5 - How to Read an Early American Novel

pp 83-96

6 - How to Read Democracy in the Early United States

pp 97-114

Part II - Readings in Early America

pp 115-198

7 - Accident, Disaster, and Trauma

pp 117-131

8 - Settler Kitsch

pp 132-147

9 - Like a Prayer

pp 148-162

10 - Varieties of Bondage in the Early Atlantic

pp 163-178

11 - The Erotics of Early America

pp 179-198

Part III - Early American Places

pp 199-267

12 - Indigenous Colonial America

pp 201-217

13 - Colonial Latin America

pp 218-232

14 - The Colonial Pacific

pp 233-249

15 - Caribbean America

pp 250-267

Select Bibliography

pp 268-274

Index

pp 275-286

Cambridge Companions To … - Series page

pp 287-292