Index

Adair, James 113, 116, 117
Adams, Robert 176
Addison, Joseph
Cato 6, 94
[and Steele], The Spectator 76–77, 81
Africa 224, 225, 239, 242, 243, 251
Africans 154, 157, 158
American Indians 2, 6–7, 33–34, 48, 93, 103, 107, 108, 109, 110, 112, 120, 202, 225, 263, 264
Cherokee 106, 107, 108, 114–15
Creek 106
Mohawk 107, 108, 109, 110, 114
Shawnee 111
Apess, William 119–20
Atlantic Ocean/Sea 2, 3, 7–8, 11, 71, 124, 126, 128, 129, 130, 133–34, 135, 137, 143, 145, 146, 150, 151, 169
Austen, Jane 206
autobiography 224, 256
life writing 6, 60, 61, 63, 64, 68, 69, 70, 71
lives 7, 68
spiritual 4, 46, 48, 49, 50, 61, 247, 251
Bancroft, Edward
The History of Charles Wentworth 22, 195
Barlow, Joel 8, 145, 251
Advice to the Privileged Orders 147
The Columbiad 145–51
Oration Delivered at Washington, July 4, 1809 149
Behn, Aphra
The Widow Ranter 92–93
Bell, Robert 20–21, 22
biography 68
Blair, Hugh 117
Blake, William 8, 224, 244
Bowles, William Lisle 117
Brackenridge, Hugh Henry 193–94
Bradford, William 52
Bradstreet, Anne 139
Brant, Joseph 107, 108, 109–10, 113
Brown, Charles Brockden 1, 2, 4, 43, 145, 171, 187, 189, 194, 196–97, 198, 207, 210, 216
Memoirs of Carwin the Biloquist 212–13
Wieland 207, 208, 209, 210–12
Buffon, Comte de 31, 34
Burk, John Daly 101
Bunker Hill 100, 102
Burke, Edmund 36, 87, 112, 166, 208, 212, 258, 268
Burns, Robert 2
Butler, Samuel 140
Byrd, William II 62–63, 92
Byrne, Patrick 24
Byron, Lord 120, 220
Campbell, Samuel 23
Campbell, Thomas
Gertrude of Wyoming 261, 264
captivity narratives 2, 4–5, 7, 61, 97, 99–100, 112–13, 127, 128, 169–70, 171, 176, 177
captivity 172, 173, 180, 257
Carey, Mathew 23
Carey, Sarah Gray 64–65
Carr, Mary 102–03
Carver, Jonathan 7
Cato’s Letters (Trenchard and Gordon) 77, 79–80, 82, 83
Child, Lydia Maria 172, 266
Choate, Rufus 254, 255
Christianity 147, 149
ministers 2, 7, 13–15, 53, 61, 111, 158
religion 13, 15, 47, 49–50, 120, 140, 147–48, 159, 164–65, 192, 193, 205, 206, 209, 214, 240–41, 248, 250
class 3, 7, 9, 41, 46, 48, 49, 67, 68, 75, 78, 81, 82, 92, 146, 154, 160, 161–63, 165, 215
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor 7, 40, 133, 211, 245, 246, 264, 265
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner 238, 247–49
commonplace books 6, 63
Cooper, James Fenimore 2, 15, 24, 118, 135–36, 169, 266
The Last of the Mohicans 266–68
Copway, George 120
Cowdery, Jonathan 177
Cowper, William 115, 129, 133–34, 135, 224
Cumberland, Richard 95
Dampier, William 125
Defoe, Daniel 64, 75, 134, 136, 192
Colonel Jack 126, 127, 128
Family Instructor 192
Moll Flanders 126, 127
Robinson Crusoe 125–26
Dennis, John 93–94
Dial, The 230
diaries and journals 6, 49, 51, 61–63, 65, 70, 71, 83, 107, 118
Dickinson, John 38
Dilly, Charles and Edward 10, 14, 20
Dryden, John 19, 63, 91, 92, 244, 246
Dunlap, William 96, 98, 255
Edwards, Jonathan 14, 15, 50, 51, 57, 60
emigration 2, 11, 23, 39–40, 41, 42, 53, 67, 71, 92, 100, 139
Equiano, Olaudah 7, 60, 64, 68, 161, 162, 163, 164–65, 251
Erskine, John 14, 15, 18, 50
Erskine, Ralph 16–17
Ewing, John 10, 19
Falconer, William 131, 133, 134
family 6, 66–67, 70, 180–81, 186, 189, 191–92, 197, 206, 227
Farmar, Eliza 66, 69
Ferguson, Adam 113
Foote, Samuel 94, 95
Foss, John 176–77
Foster, Hannah Webster
The Coquette 191
Franklin, Benjamin 5, 17–18, 20, 60, 75, 76, 80–86, 149
An Edict by the King of Prussia 84
New-England Courant 82, 83, 88
Silence Dogood 82, 86
Speech of Miss Polly Baker 82
Franklin, James 77, 79, 80, 81, 82, 83
Franks, Abigaill Bilhah Levy 66
French Convert, The 192–93
Freneau, Philip 8, 142–44, 145
The Political Balance 143, 144
Gaine, Hugh 22–23
gender 3, 8, 9, 46, 48, 68, 82, 87, 159, 172, 173, 177, 219, 221, 226–27, 228
genre 3–4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 46, 47, 48–49, 63–64, 68, 75, 76, 79–80, 84, 104, 117, 126, 130, 139, 140, 145, 169–70, 173, 181, 186–87, 256, 260
Godwin, William 4, 39, 41, 207, 208, 210, 211–16
Caleb Williams 194, 208, 211, 212
Mandeville 207, 208, 209, 213–16
Gray, William 14, 16
Hall, David 17–20, 80
Hamilton, Alexander 64, 87
Hammon, Jupiter 192
Hawthorne, Nathaniel 169, 202, 210, 221, 254, 260
history 1, 4, 8, 35, 40, 46, 51, 52, 68, 85, 103, 113, 136, 140, 150, 179, 180, 203, 206, 207, 208, 214, 220, 254, 255, 256–57, 258–60, 262, 263, 264
History of Constantius and Pulchera 196
Hitchcock, Enos 193
Hume, David 259
Humphreys, David 99, 100
Hunter, Anne Home 116
Hutchinson, Anne 53–55
imagination 238–39, 240, 243–45, 246, 248
romantic 1, 31
utopian 1, 28, 33, 34, 35, 36, 257
visions 29, 36
Imlay, Gilbert 41, 195
Ioor, William 101
Ireland 20, 32, 79, 82, 96
Dublin 12, 20, 21–23, 24, 79
Irving, Washington 2, 24, 265, 266
A History of New York 254–55, 261, 262
Rip Van Winkle 262–63
Sketch-Book of Geoffrey Crayon 262
Jefferson, Thomas 63, 70, 80, 113, 122
Jeffrey, Francis 206–07
Johnson, Samuel 10, 19, 43, 60, 67, 68, 70, 113, 122
Johnson, Sir William 109, 110, 113, 114
letters 2, 6, 7, 11, 30, 38, 61, 64–67, 68, 75, 76, 85
liberty 31, 36, 37, 39, 79, 80, 82, 84, 87, 93, 94, 102, 128, 156, 210
literary journalism 75, 76, 79, 83–84, 86–87
Locke, John 29, 80, 186
Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth 231
McGillivray, Alexander 106, 117
Madison, James 76
manuscript 61, 65, 69–70, 80, 107
Marrant, John 48, 154, 178, 241, 251
Mather, Cotton 2, 13, 19, 51, 53, 56–57, 58, 60, 61–62, 68, 76–77, 255
Moore, Milcah Martha 63
More, Hannah 193
More, Thomas 1, 28
Murray, Judith Sargent 6, 87, 95, 198
nation 2, 7, 8, 32, 33, 38, 39, 41, 42, 47, 79, 83–84, 98, 102, 111, 128, 135, 143, 173, 179, 196, 197, 198, 222, 226, 227, 228, 229, 233, 240, 243, 246, 247, 262
bi-continental 91
bonds 97–98
hybridization 107, 109, 118, 136, 243
national identity 84, 85, 87, 111, 112, 124, 126, 150, 172, 173, 175, 177, 178, 181, 188
nationalism 3, 8, 42, 80, 86, 87, 104, 124, 128, 140, 145, 150, 172, 220, 221, 225, 260
transnation 3, 6, 9, 32, 150, 170, 227
Neal, John 264, 266
Needler, Henry 130–31
North American Review, The 230, 231
Norton, John 6, 106–07, 108, 118–19
novels 4, 5, 7, 8, 20, 22–23, 41–42, 126, 171, 187, 188, 228
adultery novels 188–91
courtship and adventure novels 194–97
gothic 4, 202–03, 204, 205, 207, 213
historical 8, 136, 255, 258, 260, 261–62
seduction novels 180, 186–87, 197, 258
servant tales 191–94
Occom, Samson 58, 60, 108, 113
O’Keeffe, John 96
Otway, Thomas 92
Paine, Thomas 144–45, 149
Peck, Jabez 95
periodicals and newspapers 5, 10, 11, 15, 18, 22, 76–80, 117
Pilon, Frederick 97–98, 102
plays 5
poetry 7, 16–17, 19, 75, 117, 130–34, 139, 142, 229
songs 116–17, 129, 130, 231
Pogson, Sarah 101–02
Pope, Alexander 141, 146
Pownall, Thomas 38
Prévost, Abbé
The English Philosopher 256–57
Priestley, Joseph 37, 39, 40
Prince, Mary 7, 159–61
print 2, 5, 6, 7, 10–11, 30, 31, 33, 38, 40, 42, 48, 70–71, 78, 81
printers 5, 11, 31, 37, 86
See also individual printers
providence 46, 53, 55, 145
providence tales 4, 46, 47, 49–50, 51, 52, 53, 55, 58
puritans 4, 13–14, 58, 61, 139, 140, 209, 251, 254, 264
Quaque, Philip 7, 158–60
race 46, 48, 68, 92, 93, 94, 96, 98, 120, 128, 162, 163, 165, 173, 175, 176, 177, 181, 219, 225, 228, 238
Ralling, John 193
Reed, Esther de Berdt 66
reprint trade 2, 5, 11, 13, 17, 20–21, 23, 24, 79, 83, 84, 87, 187, 188, 192, 230
revolution 2, 28, 35, 37, 41, 48, 57, 95, 102, 112, 135, 142, 144, 156, 161, 172, 176, 205, 206, 207, 209, 212, 220, 248, 255, 261
American 2, 8, 20, 21, 31, 32, 38, 39, 51, 63, 80, 83, 94, 96, 97, 98, 99, 101, 107, 109, 135, 140, 144, 166, 173, 191, 222, 224, 255, 257, 259, 260, 261, 262, 263
French 31, 32, 35, 39, 42, 83, 87, 98, 100, 148, 206, 213, 224, 255, 261, 263, 264
Richardson, Samuel 17, 64
Robertson, William 19, 20, 113, 226, 258, 259, 260, 265, 268
romance 5, 23, 41, 52, 125, 171, 180, 188, 202, 204, 205, 208, 211, 254, 256, 257, 258, 263, 266, 267, 268
Romanticism 6, 7–8, 34, 117, 120, 133, 144, 214, 220, 221, 222, 223, 225–26, 229, 231, 238, 239
Rousseau, Jean-Jacques 33, 34, 264
Rowlandson, Mary 169, 178, 179, 180
Rowson, Susanna 5, 87, 169, 173, 175, 190
Reuben and Rachel 5, 169, 171, 172, 177–81, 257–58, 264
Slaves in Algiers 5, 99–100, 169, 171, 172, 173–76, 177, 180, 181
Ryland, John 15
Schaw, Janet 64
Schiller, Friedrich 205–06
Scotland 12, 14, 16, 17, 32, 35, 36, 79, 82, 106, 107, 112, 116–17, 135
Scott, Sir Walter 2, 15, 219, 225, 232, 233, 254, 255–56, 260, 265–66, 267
Sedgwick, Catherine Maria 172, 266
Sewall, Samuel 51, 53, 60, 61
Shakespeare
The Tempest 91
Shelley, Mary 251
Frankenstein 211, 213, 232, 251
ships 2, 7, 11, 13, 125, 129–34, 135, 223, 238, 239, 240, 245, 247, 248–49
slavery 61, 101, 106, 128, 129, 155, 156, 157–58, 159, 170, 173, 175, 202, 219, 223, 239, 263
slaves 2, 8, 48, 61, 65, 136
Smith, Adam 19, 28, 38, 113, 228
Smith, Charlotte 263
Smollett, Tobias 117, 134, 192
Roderick Random 129–30, 136
Southey, Robert 8, 71, 117, 120, 264
Stone, John Augustus 103–04
Strahan, William 17–18, 21
tales of wonder 4, 29, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50, 55–56
Tecumseh 111
Tenskwatawa 111
theatre 2, 6, 92, 96–97, 104
Thompson, John 106, 107, 117
Thomson, James 128, 129
Timberlake, Henry 114, 117
transatlantic book trade 5, 11, 12–13, 15–16, 17–20, 21–22, 62
translation 99, 229, 230, 268
travel narratives 7, 19, 22, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 36, 40, 42, 61, 65, 113, 124, 125, 126, 145, 171, 224, 257
Tucker, Josiah 38
Twain, Mark 219, 232, 233, 256
Tyler, Royall 2, 6, 64, 198
The Contrast 95, 96
Vickery, Sukey 190, 191
Walpole, Horace 205
war 31, 37, 38, 85, 92, 95, 96, 98, 101, 102, 103, 107, 109, 110, 112, 128, 129–30, 135, 162
Ward, Ned 126–27
Watson, James Reid 155–56, 157
Webster, Noah 222, 223, 224
Wedderburn, Robert 7, 161–62, 163–64, 165
Cast-Iron Parsons 164–66
West Indies 2, 6, 94–95, 101, 155
Wheatley, Phillis 7, 65, 141, 239–40, 241, 242, 243–45, 250
Whitefield, George 15, 17, 19, 241
Wigglesworth, Michael 140
Williamson, Peter 7, 112, 116
Wordsworth, William 107–08, 117, 135, 146, 206, 220, 247, 248, 251
Wright, Frances 102