Author: Tyler, Moses Coit [1835-1900]
Title: A History of American Literature 1607 -1783
Description: Chicago, University of Chicago Press, [1967]. Abridged edtn. orig. cloth, dustwrapper. 21x23cm, xxii,357 pp. Abridged and edited by Archie H Jones.. Minor rubbing. VG. ¶ Selections from the author's 'A history of American literature' (1878) and 'The literary history of the American Revolution, 1763-1776' (1897)"; Contents: Virginia : The first writer -- New England : Its nature and its people -- New England : Theology and religion -- New England : Topics of popular discussion -- Literature in the middle colonies -- Maryland, Virginia, and the South -- The Stamp Act and political discussion -- The Loyalists and their literature -- Satire and the Revolutionary controversy -- Thomas Paine and Common sense -- Thomas Jefferson and the great Declaration -- John Dickinson -- Two Apostles of quietness and good will --Franklin in the literature of the Revolution.

Keywords: American Literary History, Colonial America, Intellectual Life, Criticism, United States, Literature, , ,