American literature is literature predominantly written or produced in English in the United States of America and its preceding colonies. Before the founding of the United States, the British colonies on the eastern coast of the present-day United States were heavily influenced by English literature.
<span>Evil. I am cast upon a horrible desolate Island, void of all hope of recovery. Good. But I am alive; and am not drowned, as all my ship's company was (59).</span>
