Colonial American Fiction

Colonial American Fiction is something that is close to all American's hearts. It reminds them of their revolutionary and democratic foundations and the abundance of individuality and self-reliance that helped build one of the world's most powerful nations. Colonial American Fiction has played an enormous part of America's identity and growth. This is your place to read all about the early foundational literature of a great country.

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Latest articles in Colonial American Fiction

Captive Trail by Susan Page Davis, a Review

Taabe Waipu, kidnapped by the Comanche as a child, has run away. She is injured and found by Ned Bright. Can Ned help Taabe discover who she really is?

Jan 9, 2012 – Kelley Huston

A Review of the Inconvenient Marriage of Charlotte Beck

Charlotte Beck has her own ideas of what her future should look like. Unfortunately her father has other ideas.

Sep 7, 2011 – Kelley Huston

Too Rich for a Bride by Mona Hodgson

Ida Sinclair joins her sisters, Kat and Nell, in Cripple Creek where she plans to open a business not find a husband.

Aug 5, 2011 – Kelley Huston

Thomas Jefferson's Notes Advocate an Agrarian Economy

An examination of Thomas Jefferson's economic ideas for the burgeoning American Nation as presented in his Notes on the State of Virginia.

Jun 16, 2011 – Stetson Thacker

Mary Rowlandson's Captivity Narrative as an American Jeremiad

This is a analysis of Mary Rowlandson's Narrative of Captivity and is exigency among her Puritan audience as a Jeremiad.