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What isEARLY AMERICAN LITERATURE?
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Robert E. Spiller, The Roots of National Culture
American Literature to 1830. (1949)
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Nina Baym, ed. The Norton Anthology of American
Literature. 3rd ed. (1989)
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Paul Lauter, ed. The Heath Anthology of American
Literature. 3rd ed. (1998)
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Carla Mulford, ed. Early American Writings. 1st
ed. (2002)
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Drawing of a carved wall panel from Lacanha,
Mexico. Source Elizabeth Boon Hill,
Introduction Writing and Recording Knowledge.
Writing Without Words. 18.
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The Walum Olum or the Red Score of the Lenape.
Source The Multilingual Anthology of American
Literature. Eds. Shell and Sollors. 98-99.
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John Eliot, Christian Covenanting Confession.
Congregational Library, Boston. Source The
Multilingual Anthology of American Literature. 2.
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Samson Occom, Engraving by Ridley Blood, 1802.
Source U of Pennsylvania Special Collections.
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Samson Occom, Address to his Indian Brethren.
Broadside. 1772. Source American Antiquarian
Society.
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Francis Daniel Pastorius, Title Page in Seven
Languages. The Bee-Hive. Source U of
Pennsylvania Special Collections.
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Declaration of Independence. German. Printing
by Steiner Cist. July 5, 1776.