Content Division
CHAPTER ONE: Colonial Literature in America
1.1. Exercise: Pre-test
1.2. Introduction
1.3. Captain's John Smith's The General History of Virginia
1.3.1. Captain John Smith
1.3.2. The General History of Virginia: the text.
1.3.3. Exercise: choose the correct answer.
CHAPTER TWO: Literature of Reason and Revolution
2.1.Exercise: Pre-test
2.2. Introduction
2.3.Enlightenment in Literature
2.4. The Budding of Actual "American" Resistance
2.5. "Common Sense": a Pamphlet by Thomas Paine.
2.5.1. The Pamphlet
2.5.2. Thomas Paine
2.5.3. "Common Sense"
CHAPTER THREE: American Romanticism
3.1. Exercise: Pre-test
3.2. Introduction
3.3. Washington Irving
3.3.1. Who Was Washington Irving?
3.3.2. Irving's Major Works