LEADER 05082nam 2200673 450 001 9910460431203321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a0-8047-9259-3 024 7 $a10.1515/9780804792592 035 $a(CKB)3710000000243883 035 $a(EBL)1791731 035 $a(OCoLC)923709607 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001352375 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12537016 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001352375 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11311232 035 $a(PQKB)10776468 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1791731 035 $a(DE-B1597)564445 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780804792592 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1791731 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10939061 035 $a(OCoLC)1224278597 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000243883 100 $a20140929h20152015 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 00$aWorlding America $ea transnational anthology of short narratives before 1800 /$fedited and with an introduction and critical notes by Oliver Scheiding and Martin Seidl 210 1$aStanford, California :$cStanford University Press,$d2015. 210 4$d©2015 215 $a1 online resource (264 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-8047-9080-9 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references. 327 $aContents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; A Note on the Text; Introduction; Part I: Life Writing; Travel; Paul Le Jeune. Relation of What Occurred in New France in the Year 1633 (1643); Edward Taylor. An Atlantic Voyage (1668); Christopher Sauer. An Early Description of Pennsylvania and the Sea Voyage from Europe (1724); Misadventure; Anthony Thacher. The Shipwreck of Anthony Thacher (1684); Carlos de Sigu?enza y Go?ngora. The Misfortunes of Alonso Rami?rez (1690); Confessions; Owen Syllavan. A Short Account of the Life of John-Alias Owen Syllavan (1756) 327 $aThomas Powers. The Narrative and Confession of Thomas Powers, A Negro (1796)Part II: Female Agency; Captivities; Marie Le Roy and Barbara Leininger. The Narrative of Marie le Roy and Barbara Leininger, for Three Years Captives among the Indians (1759); Cotton Mather. A Narrative of a Notable Deliverance from Captivity (1697); Anonymous [Nathaniel Hawthorne]. The Duston Family (1836); Authorship; Antonetta [Margaretta V. Faugeres]. Inhuman Treatment to a Negro Slave (1791); Ann Eliza Bleecker. Story of Henry and Anne: Founded on Fact (1791); Part III: The Circum-Atlantic World; Slavery 327 $aAnonymous. Negro Trade: A Fragment (1787)[Jean-Franc?ois de Saint-Lambert]. Zimeo: A Tale (1789); Entrepreneurs; Antiphilus [Pseudonym]. Memoirs of a Spy (1798); Philip Freneau. The Inexorable Captain: A Short Story (1788); Part IV: Cultures of Print; Orientalism; Anonymous: Firnaz and Mirvan: An Eastern Tale (1792); Sabina [Pseudonym]. Louisa: A Novel (1790); Migrant Fictions; [Nicholas Bricaire de la Dixmerie]. Azakia: A Canadian Story (1783); Anonymous: The Child of the Snow (1792); Sensationalism 327 $aAnna [Pseudonym]. An Account of a Murder Committed by Mr. J.- Y.-, Upon His Family, in December, A.D. 1781 (1796)Anonymous [Jean-Pierre Claris de Florian]. Valeria: An Italian Tale (1799); Part V: Ghost Stories; Ghosts; Cotton Mather. A Narrative of an Apparition which a Gentleman in Boston, had of his Brother, just then Murdered in London (1692); Anonymous: The Ghost of Falkner Swamp (1744); Chiricahua. A Chiricahua Woman Visits the Underworld (n.d.); Legends; Anonymous [Anna Lętitia Barbauld]. Sir Bertrand: A Fragment. By Mrs. Barbauld (1787) 327 $aWashington Irving. The Devil and Tom Walker (1824)Myth; K'iche' Maya. A Maiden's Story (c. 1524); Penobscot. Corn Mother (n.d.); Benjamin Franklin. The Origin of Tobacco (1784); Works Cited 330 $a
Worlding America explores the circulation of short narratives in the early Americas through a combination of neglected primary materials and scholarly commentary. Building on recent reconsiderations of American literature in light of transnational and hemispheric approaches, it follows the migration of stories from various backgrounds and demonstrates how forms and themes developed in a new literary market that spanned the Atlantic world.

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