Colonialism and the Revolutionary Period (beginnings-1800)
- ISBN-10
- 1604134852
- ISBN-13
- 9781604134858
- Category
- Juvenile Nonfiction
- Pages
- 127
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2010
- Publisher
- Infobase Publishing
- Authors
- Karen Meyers, Jerry R. Phillips, Michael Anesko
Description
Explores the social, cultural, and historical contexts of American literature during the United States' first 300 years, as Puritan morality, Enlightenment philosophy, and the Revolutionary War shaped the new nation and influenced America's first writers.
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