A History of American Literature. Boynton Percy Holmes

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СКАЧАТЬ Three Hundred Years as Seen in its Literature. With a bibliographical appendix. 1880. (An excellent history, and indispensable for its bibliographical information.)

      Earle, Alice Morse. Child Life in Colonial Days. 1904.

      Earle, Alice Morse. Curious Punishments of Bygone Days. 1896 and 1907.

      Earle, Alice Morse. Customs and Fashions in Old New England. 1893.

      Earle, Alice Morse. Home Life in Colonial Days. 1898.

      Earle, Alice Morse. Stage-Coach and Tavern Days. 1900.

      Fiske, John. New France and New England, chap. v.

      Masson, David. Life of John Milton. 1859–1880. 6 vols. (Valuable for the English backgrounds of Puritanism.)

      Richardson, C. F. American Literature, chap. iv.

      Tyler, M. C. A History of American Literature. Colonial Period. Vol. I, chaps. xii, xiii.

      Walker, W. Ten New England Leaders. 1901.

      Wendell, Barrett. Literary History of America, Bk. I, chap. V. 1901.

       Individual Authors

      Increase Mather. An Essay for the Recording of Illustrious Providences. 1684.

      Available Edition

      With introductory preface by George Offor. London, 1890.

      Collections

      Cairns, W. B. Early American Writers, pp. 199–216.

      Duyckinck, E. A. and G. L. Cyclopedia of American Literature, Vol. I, p. 59.

      Stedman and Hutchinson. A Library of American Literature, Vol. II, pp. 75–106.

      Cotton Mather. The Wonders of the Invisible World. 1693. Magnalia Christi Americana: or, The Ecclesiastical History of New England, 1620–1698. 1702.

      Available Editions

      Magnalia. With notes, translations, and life. 1853. The Wonders, etc. Reprints, Cambridge, 1861, 1862.

      Biography and Criticism

      Marvin, Rev. A. P. The Life and Times of Cotton Mather. 1892.

      Parrington, V. L. Cambridge History of American Literature. Vol. I, Bk. I, in chap iii.

      Sprague, W. B. Annals of the American Pulpit, Vol. I, pp. 189–195. 1857.

      Tyler, M. C. History of American Literature. Colonial Period. Vol. I, chaps. xii, xiii.

      Collections

      Cairns, W. B. Early American Writers, pp. 217–237.

      Duyckinck, E. A. and G. L. Cyclopedia of American Literature, Vol. I, pp. 59–66.

      Stedman and Hutchinson. Library of American Literature, Vol. II, pp. 114–166.

      Samuel Sewall. Diary from 1673 to 1729. The only edition is Mass. Hist. Soc. Coll., Ser. 5, Vols. VI–VIII.

      Collections

      Cairns, W. B. Early American Writers, pp. 238–251.

      Stedman and Hutchinson. Library of American Literature, Vol. II, pp. 188–200.

      History and Criticism

      Chamberlain, N. H. (See General References.)

      Tyler, M. C. (See General References.)

      Sarah Kemble Knight. Journals of Madame Knight. From the original manuscripts written in 1704. T. Dwight, editor. 1825.

      Available Editions

      A Reprint, Albany, 1865.

      A Reprint, Norwich, Conn., 1901.

      Collection

      Stedman and Hutchinson. Library of American Literature, Vol. II, pp. 248–264.

       History and Criticism

      Tyler, M. C. (See General References.)

      Literary Treatment of the Period

      Drama

      Barker, J. N. Superstition, a Tragedy (1824), in Representative American Plays (edited by A. H. Quinn). 1917.

      Longfellow, H. W. The New England Tragedies.

      Wilkins, Mary E. Giles Corey, Yeoman.

      Essays

      Lowell, J. R. Witchcraft. Works, Vol. V.

      Whittier, J. G. Charms and Fairy Faith, and Magicians and Witch Folk in Literary Recreations and Miscellanies.

      Fiction

      Austin, Mrs. J. G. A Nameless Nobleman.

      Austin, Mrs. J. G. Dr. Le Baron and his Daughter (sequel).

      Cooper, J. F. The Wept of Wish-ton-Wish.

      Simms, W. Gilmore. The Yemassee.

      Wilkins, Mary E. The Heart’s Highway.

      Poetry

      Poems of American History (edited by B. E. Stevenson), pp. 71–97.

      TOPICS AND PROBLEMS

      Read the introduction to the “Magnalia” or a chapter from “Illustrious Providences,” or “The Wonders of the Invisible World,” for evidence of superstition based on Scriptural authority and of vulgar, or folk, superstition.

      In the Nation of August 17, 1918, pp. 173–175, there is an article in review of five new books under the title “Spirit Communication.” Establish the differences and the likenesses between the modern attitude and the attitude of the seventeenth century toward “the invisible world.”

      Read Fitz-Greene Halleck’s “Connecticut,” stanzas xiii-xxvi, and Whittier’s “The Double-Headed Snake of Newbury,” ll. 71–85, as well as Irving’s “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow” (see p. 129 in this volume), for typical literary expressions of aversion to Cotton Mather.

      The best method of approaching Samuel Sewall’s Diary is to read some fifty pages – preferably between 1680 and 1710 – for the references to a definite topic. This may best be selected from promising suggestions in the first few pages of reading. If none appears, look for any of the following or others like them: Sunday observance; funerals, weddings, and christenings; the pastor and his people; holidays; parents and children; self-analysis; religious discipline; law and order. Comparisons on a given topic with the entries for the same period in Evelyn or for an equal number of pages in Pepys are fruitful.

      A similar approach may be made to Mrs. Knight’s compact and consecutive Journal. СКАЧАТЬ