Type of bind: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 810.8
EAN num: 9780130289414
ISBN number: 0130289418
Label: Prentice Hall
Manufacturer: Prentice Hall
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 2432
Printing Date: November 21, 2000
Publishing house: Prentice Hall
Sale Popularity Level: 87137
Studio: Prentice Hall
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This book contains selections from Volumes I and II of the Anthology of American Literature, Seventh Edition. Carefully selected works introduce readers to America's literary heritage, from the colonial times of William Bradford and Anne Bradstreet to the contemporary era of Saul Bellow and Toni Morrison. It provides a wealth of additional contextual information surrounding the readings as well as the authors themselves. An expanded chronological chart and interaction time line help readers associate literary works with historical, political, technological, and cultural developments. Other coverage includes a continued emphasis on cultural plurality, including the contributions to the American literary canon made by women and minority authors, and a reflection of the changing nature of the canon of American Literature. For anyone who likes to read the writings of American Literature—and wants to understand the connection between those words and their place in American history.
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Great collection of American Writing, used to book for online class, but never took it outside the house. Its pretty heavy and very easy to tear. I have no idea why pages are so THIN. Serioulsly, they are thinner than the toilet paper.
Dont flip the page too fast, you might loose it.
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Let's face it, most people won't be buying this volume by choice--they'll buy it for a class. Still, it's good to know what you're getting into. This is a pretty good anthology of American literature, starting all the way back with Native American myths and Columbus's journals and continuing through Puritan, Enlightenment, Transcendentalist, Romantic, and modern periods of literature in America.
The introductions to the pieces are good--as good or better than Norton's--and the selections themselves are generally good. Still, though, there are a few notable things missing, but that is to be expected in any compendium, I suppose.
One of the highlights of this volume is the full reprints of Benjamin Franklin's Autobiography and Mark Twain's Huckleberry Finn. If you have to buy this book, it should be useful and may even be worth keeping around after the class is over. I know I'm going to keep mine.
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