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Title Page Copyright Page Dedication Introduction Prefigurations (1): Native American Mythology - NATIVE AMERICAN MYTHS

Winnebago Cherokee Bering Strait Eskimo Hopi Iroquois

Prefigurations (2): The Literature of Imagination and Discovery

Anonymous Christopher Columbus (1451?–1506) Amerigo Vespucci (1454—1512) Thomas More (1478—1535) Alvar Nuñez Cabeza de Vaca (1490?–1557?) Pedro de Casteñeda (1510?—1570?) Peter Martyr (1455—1526) and Richard Eden (1521—1576) Michel de Montaigne (1533—1592) Thomas Hariot (1560—1621) Sir Walter Raleigh (1544—1618) Michael Drayton (1563—1631) Richard Hakluyt (1552?–1616) William Shakespeare (1564–1616) Francis Bacon (1561–1626) Samuel de Champlain (1567–1635) George Herbert (1593–1633)

The Literature of Settlement and Colonization

John Smith (1580–1631) John Cotton (1584–1652) Alexander Whitaker (1585–1616?) John Winthrop (1587–1649) William Bradford (1590–1657) Thomas Morton (1579?–1647) Thomas Hooker (1586?–1647) Ann Hutchinson (1591–1643) Thomas Shepard (1605–1649) Anne Bradstreet (1612?–1672) Roger Williams (1613–1683) Samuel Danforth (1626–1674) Michael Wigglesworth (1631—1705) Mary Rowlandson (1635?—1678?) Edward Taylor (1644?—1729) Samuel Sewall (1652–1730) Cotton Mather (1633—1728) Sarah Kemble Knight (1666—1727) Ebenezer Cooke (1670—c. 1732) Robert Beverley (c. 1673—1722) William Byrd II (1674–1744) Fray Carlos José Delgado (1677–c. 1750) Jonathan Edwards (1703–1758) Benjamin Franklin (1706–1790) Elizabeth Ashbridge (1713–1755) Jonathan Mayhew (1720–1766) John Woolman (1720–1772) Francisco Palou (1723–1789)

Native American Literature in the Colonial Period - NORTH AMERICAN INDIAN ORATORY

Chief Powhatan Chief Cannassatego Chief Logan Chief Pachgantschilias Chief Tecumseh

Literature of the Early Republic

George Washington (1732–1799) Thomas Jefferson (1734–1826) John Adams (1735–1826) J. Hector St. Jean de Crevecoeur (1737–1818) Thomas Paine (1737–1809) William Bartram (1739–1823) Abigail Adams (1744–1818) Gustavus Vassa [Olaudah Equiano] (1745–1797) Hugh Henry Brackenridge (1748–1816) John Trumbull (1750–1831) The Federalist Papers (1787–1788) Judith Sargent Murray (1751–1820) Timothy Dwight (1752–1817) Philip Freneau (1752–1832) Phillis Wheatley (1753?–1784) Joel Barlow (1754–1812) Royall Tyler (1757–1826) Hannah Webster Foster (1758–1840) Susanna Haswell Rowson (1762?–1824)

EXPLANATORY NOTES Acknowledgements PERMISSION ACKNOWLEDGMENTS AND SOURCE NOTES