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Acknowledgments | |
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The First Americans: American Literature Before and During the Colonial and Revolutionary Periods | |
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Imagining Eden | |
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Native American Oral Traditions | |
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Spanish and French Encounters with America | |
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Anglo-American Encounters | |
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Writing of the Colonial and Revolutionary Periods | |
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Puritan narratives | |
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Challenges to the Puritan oligarchy | |
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Some colonial poetry | |
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Enemies within and without | |
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Trends toward the secular and resistance | |
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Toward the Revolution | |
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Alternative voices of Revolution | |
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Writing Revolution: Poetry, drama, fiction | |
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Inventing Americas: The Making of American Literature, 1800�1865 | |
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Making a Nation | |
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The Making of American Myths | |
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Myths of an emerging nation | |
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The making of Western myth | |
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The making of Southern myth | |
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Legends of the Old Southwest | |
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The Making of American Selves | |
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The Transcendentalists | |
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Voices of African-American identity | |
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The Making of Many Americas | |
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Native American writing | |
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Oral culture of the Hispanic Southwest | |
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African-American polemic and poetry | |
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Abolitionist and pro-slavery writing | |
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Abolitionism and feminism | |
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African-American writing | |
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The Making of an American Fiction and Poetry | |
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The emergence of American narratives | |
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Women writers and storytellers | |
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Spirituals and folk songs | |
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American poetic voices | |
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Reconstructing the Past, Reimagining the Future: The Development of American Literature, 1865�1900 | |
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Making It New: The Emergence of Modern American Literature, 1900�1945 | |