Documenti di Didattica
Documenti di Professioni
Documenti di Cultura
William Stratchey (ca. April 1572 June 1621) English writer; Early
History of the Colonization of North America
A True Repertory of the Wracke, and Redemption of Sir Thomas Gates Figure 2.2
Knight (1610) William Penn
For The Colony in Virginea Britannia. Lawes Divine, Morall and Martiall, &c.
A Dictionary of Powhatan
Good Newes from New England, or a True Relation of Things very Remarkable at
the Plantation of Plimouth in New England (1624)
Anne Bradstreet (ca. 1612 September 1672) was America's Figure 1.5 Increase
Mather
first published poet. Her work met with a positive reception in both the Old
World and the New World.
Upon the Burning of Our House July 10th, 1666 (poem)
The Prologue
Preparatory Mediations
Figure 1.6 Anne
Bradstreet
Michael Wigglesworth (ca. 1631 1705) Puritan minister and Poet
Cotton Mather (ca. 1663 1728) socially and politically influential New
England Minister; son of Increase Mather; played a part in the Salem Witch Trials;
Gods activity in histories of the colonies
Travels through North and South Carolina, Georgia, East and West Florida, the
Cherokee Country, etc. Philadelphia, James & Johson, 1791
Letters From an American, written to A.W.S. Ecuyer since the year 1770 up 'til
1781.
African-American Writers
Journals
Revolutionary Writers
Samuel Adams (ca. 1722 1803) - an American statesman, political philosopher, and
one of the Founding Fathers of the United States. As a politician in colonial Massachusetts, Adams
was a leader of the movement that became the American Revolution, and was one of the architects
of the principles of American republicanism that shaped the political culture of the United States. He
was a second cousin to President John Adams.
Massachusetts Constitution
Josiah Quincy II (ca. 1744 1775) American lawyer and patriot. He was a principal
spokesman for the Sons of Liberty in Boston prior to the Revolution and was John Adams' co-counsel
during the trials of Captain Thomas Preston and the soldiers involved in the Boston Massacre.
Observations on the Act of Parliament, commonly called The Boston Port Bill, with Thoughts on Civil
Society and Standing Armies (1744)
John Dickson (ca. 1732 1808) - an American lawyer and politician from Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania and Wilmington, Delaware. He was a militia officer during the American Revolution, a
Continental Congressman from Pennsylvania and Delaware, a delegate to the U.S. Constitutional
Convention of 1787, President of Delaware and President of Pennsylvania. Among the wealthiest
men in the British American colonies, he is known as the "Penman of the Revolution" for his Letters
from a Farmer in Pennsylvania; upon receiving news of his death, President Thomas Jefferson
recognized him as being "among the first of the advocates for the rights of his country when assailed
by Great Britain" whose "name will be consecrated in history as one of the great worthies of the
revolution." He is the namesake of Dickinson College and Penn State University's Dickinson School
of Law.
Joseph Galloway (ca. 1731 1803) - American Loyalist during the American Revolution,
after serving as delegate to the First Continental Congress from Pennsylvania.
Thomas Paine (ca. 1737 1809) - author, pamphleteer, radical, inventor, intellectual, revolutionary,
and one of the Founding Fathers of the United States. He has been called "a corsetmaker by trade, a
journalist by profession, and a propagandist by inclination; emigrated to the British American colonies
in 1774 in time to participate in the American Revolution. His principal contributions were the
powerful, widely read pamphlet Common Sense (1776), the all-time best-selling American book that
advocated colonial America's independence from the Kingdom of Great Britain, and The American
Crisis (17761783), a pro-revolutionary pamphlet series. His writing of "Common Sense" was so
influential that John Adams reportedly said, "Without the pen of the author of 'Common Sense,' the
sword of Washington would have been raised in vain.
Benjamin Franklin (1706 1790) - one of the Founding Fathers of the United States. A
noted polymath, Franklin was a leading author, printer, political theorist, politician, postmaster,
scientist, musician, inventor, satirist, civic activist, statesman, and diplomat. As a scientist, he was a
major figure in the American Enlightenment and the history of physics for his discoveries and theories
regarding electricity. He invented the lightning rod, bifocals, the Franklin stove, a carriage odometer,
and the glass 'armonica'. He formed both the first public lending library in America and the first fire
department in Pennsylvania.
Post-Independence
Thomas Jefferson (1743 1826) - was the principal author of the Declaration of
Independence (1776) and the Statute of Virginia for Religious Freedom (1777), the third President of
the United States (18011809) and founder of the University of Virginia (1819). He was an
influential Founding Father and an exponent of Jeffersonian democracy.
James Madison (1751 1836) - American statesman and political theorist. He was
the fourth President of the United States (18091817) and is hailed as the Father of the Constitution
for being the primary author of the United States Constitution and the author of the United
States Bill of Rights.
Tales: (Famous)
Poems: (Famous)
Annabel Lee
The Bells
The Raven
Tamerlane
Leatherstocking Tales
Harriet Beecher Stowe (June 1811 July 1896) American abolitionist and author.
Her novel Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852) was a depiction of life for African-Americans under slavery; it
reached millions as a novel and play, and became influential in the United States and United
Kingdom. It energized anti-slavery forces in the American North, while provoking widespread anger in
the South. She wrote more than 20 books, including novels, three travel memoirs, and collections of
articles and letters. She was influential both for her writings and her public stands on social issues of
the day.
Nathaniel Hawthorne (July 1804 May 1864) - writing centers on New England,
many works featuring moral allegories with a Puritan inspiration. His fiction works are considered part
of the Romantic Movement and, more specifically, dark romanticism. His themes often center on the
inherent evil and sin of humanity, and his works often have moral messages and deep psychological
complexity. His published works include novels, short stories, and a biography of his friend Franklin
Pierce.
Thomas Stearns Eliot (T.S. Eliot, September 1888 January 1965) The
Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
Robert Frost (March 1874 January 1963) The Road Not Taken
Edna St. Vincent Millay (February 1892 October 1950) - The Lamp and the
Bell (Play)
Mark Twain (Samuel Langhorne Clemens, November 1835- April 1910)
Huckleberry Finn; Tom Sawyer
20th Century
Richard Wright The Man Who Was Almost A Man; Native Son
Nelson Algren (1909 1981), The Man with the Golden Arm
Julia Alvarez (born 1950), How the Garca Girls Lost Their Accents
Max Apple (born 1941), Zip: A Novel of the Left and the Right
Timothy Shay Arthur (1809 1885), Ten Nights in a Barroom and What I Saw There
Amiri Baraka (LeRoi Jones) (born 1934), The System of Dante's Hell
John Franklin Bardin (1916 1981), Devil Take the Blue-Tail Fly
Judy Blume (born 1938), Are You There, God? It's Me, Margaret
Chris Bohjalian (born 1960), The Law of Similars
Jennifer Finney Boylan (previously James Finney Boylan) (born 1958), The Planets
Eugene Burdick (1918 1965), The Ugly American (with William Lederer)
Michael Chabon (born 1964), The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
Laurie Colwin (1944 1992), Shine On, Bright and Dangerous Object
Robert Coover (born 1932), The Universal Baseball Association, Inc., J. Henry Waugh, Prop.
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H. D. (1886 1961), Palimpsest
Edward S. Ellis (1840 1916), Seth Jones; or, The Captives of the Frontier
Jessie Redmon Fauset (1882 1961), Plum Bun: A Novel Without a Moral
Jesse Hill Ford (1928 1996), The Liberation of Lord Byron Jones
Leon Forrest (1937 1997), There Is a Tree More Ancient Than Eden
Karen Joy Fowler (born 1950), The Jane Austen Book Club
John Fox, Jr. (1862 1919), The Trail of the Lonesome Pine
Erle Stanley Gardner (1889 1970), The Case of the Velvet Claws
Herbert Gold (born 1924), The Man Who Was Not With It
Allan Gurganus (born 1947), Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All
James Norman Hall (1887 1951), Mutiny on the Bounty (with Charles Nordhoff)
Oscar Hijuelos (born 1951), The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love
Blanche Willis Howard (1847 1898), Guenn: A Wave on the Breton Coast
Zora Neale Hurston (1891 1960), Their Eyes Were Watching God
Joseph Holt Ingraham (1809 1860), Lafitte: The Pirate of the Gulf
John Irving (born 1942), The World According to Garp
Sarah Orne Jewett (1849 1909), The Country of the Pointed Firs
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James Otis Kaler (1848 1912), Toby Tyler; or, Ten Weeks with a Circus
Harry Stephen Keeler (1890 1967), The Riddle of the Traveling Skull
Marjorie Kellogg (1922 2005), Tell Me That You Love Me, Junie Moon
Ken Kesey (1935 2001), One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Joseph Kirkland (1830 1894), Zury: The Meanest Man in Spring County
Fletcher Knebel (1911 1993), Seven Days in May (with Charles Bailey II)
William Lederer (1912 2009), The Ugly American (with Eugene Burdick)
Frank Belknap Long (1901 1994), The Horror from the Hills
Gregory Maguire (born 1954), Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West
Lorrie Moore (born 1957), Who Will Run the Frog Hospital?
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Vladimir Nabokov (1899 1977), Lolita
Charles Nordhoff (1887 1947), Mutiny on the Bounty (with James Norman Hall)
Margaret Astrid Lindholm Ogden (born 1952), writes as Robin Hobb & Megan Lindholm
David Graham Phillips (1867 1911), Susan Lenox: Her Fall and Rise
Edgar Allan Poe (1809 1849), The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket
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Qiu Xiaolong (born 1953), Death of a Red Heroine
George Saunders (born 1958), The Brief and Frightening Reign of Phil
Robert Shea (1933 1994), The Illuminatus! Trilogy (with Robert Anton Wilson)
William Gilmore Simms (1806 1870}, The Sword and the Distaff
Mona Simpson (born 1957), Anywhere But Here
Ann Sophia Stephens (1810 1886), Malaeska: The Indian Wife of the White Hunter
Grace Zaring Stone (1891 1991), The Bitter Tea of General Yen
Arthur Train (1875 1945), Yankee Lawyer: The Autobiography of Ephraim Tutt
Douglass Wallop (1920 1985), The Year the Yankees Lost the Pennant
Walter Wangerin, Jr. (born 1944), The Book of the Dun Cow
Charles Dudley Warner (1829 1900), The Gilded Age (with Mark Twain)
Paul West (born 1930), The Women of Whitechapel and Jack the Ripper
Kate Wilhelm (born 1928), Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang
Harriet E. Wilson (1825 1900), Our Nig; Or, Sketches from the Life of a Free Black
Robert Anton Wilson (born 1932), The Illuminatus! Trilogy (with Robert Shea)
Sloan Wilson (1920 2003), The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit
Lois-Ann Yamanaka (born 1961), Wild Meat and the Bully Burgers
Karen Tei Yamashita (born 1951), Through the Arc of the Rain Forest
Chelsea Quinn Yarbro (born 1942), Hotel Transylvania