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Finding colonial Americas : essays honoring J.A. Leo Lemay

Title: Finding colonial Americas : essays honoring J.A. Leo Lemay / edited by Carla Mulford and David S. Shields.
Publication: Newark, DE : University of Delaware Press, ©2001.

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Description

481 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Subject

Genre/Form

Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.

Bibliography (note)

List of the works by J.A. Leo Lemay: pages 439-447.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 448-472) and index.

Contents

Finding colonial Americas: an introduction -- J.A. Leo Lemay: a sketch -- Millennium's darker side: the missionary utopias of Franciscan New Spain and Puritan New England -- Communion in captivity: torture, martyrdom, and gender in New France and New England -- Ebenezer Cook's The Sot-Weed factor: an intercultural reading -- New science and the question of identity in eighteenth-century British America -- Caribbean degeneracy and the problem of masculinity in Charles Brockden Brown's Ormond -- "To bring Mary-land into England": English identities in colonial American writing -- Richard Lewis's poetics of anti-mercantilism -- Genteel confusion: reading class structure in Dr. Alexander Hamilton's Itinerarium -- The reception of Dr. Alexander Hamilton's History of the Tuesday Club, ten years after -- A mock-epic on early American Methodism -- The sources and significance of Joseph Dumbleton's "The Paper-mill": Augustan American poetics and the culture of print in colonial Williamsburg -- Under the wisteria: the topography of Sarah Wister's Commonplace book -- Franklin's houses -- Washington Allston and Ut pictura poesis: the Romantic artist as poet and cultivated intellectual -- A continental poetics: scientific publishing and scientific society in eighteenth-century America -- Benjamin Franklin, David Hume, autobiography, and the jealousy of empire -- Long live La difference: humor and sex in Franklin's writings -- "Much depends upon my knowing": the education of Polly Hewson -- Benjamin Franklin's "Observations on the means of extinguishing a fire": an addition to the Franklin canon -- Thinking about Benjamin Franklin's library -- A selective guide to printed materials relating to the iconography and artifacts of Benjamin Franklin -- How Thomas Prince read Captain John Smith -- Thomas Jefferson, protecting privacy -- Moving the rock -- The "devil's territories" or "the preservation of the world"?: Thoreau's subversion of Puritan wilderness discourse -- Ivan who?: A second look at the other book that is supposed to have started the Civil War.

Call Number

IAG 01-7641

ISBN

0874137225
9780874137224

LCCN

00053670

OCLC

45387509

Title

Finding colonial Americas : essays honoring J.A. Leo Lemay / edited by Carla Mulford and David S. Shields.

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Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

List of the works by J.A. Leo Lemay: pages 439-447.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 448-472) and index.

Chronological Term

To 1799

Added Author

Lemay, J. A. Leo (Joseph A. Leo), 1935-2008.

Mulford, Carla, 1955-

Shields, David S., 1951-

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Research Call Number

IAG 01-7641

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