Between 1600 and 1800, the Atlantic world--bound in the east by the Americas and in the west by Africa and Europe--is marked by biological exchange, settler colonialism, the slave trade, an ever-expanding trade in goods, and an intellectual and creative reimaging of the known world. This course will look at the literary exchanges produced by people contemplating their place within this Atlantic geography. It will be focused on England and the northeast Atlantic and give particular attention to the place of Atlantic Canada and its peoples in this cultural foment. The course will include work by Europeans, by men and women brought to North America as slaves, by Native Americans, especially Mi’kmaq people, and by Settlers. Through Travel and captivity narratives, life writing, recipes and advertisements, plays, fiction, poetry, and legal writing, the course will explore a unique textual archive, consider issues around recovering and reading the voices of colonized and marginalized peoples, and ponder the place of eastern Canada, in particular, in the early modern Atlantic world.