Type of bind: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 810.8
EAN num: 9780130838148
ISBN number: 0130838144
Label: Prentice Hall
Manufacturer: Prentice Hall
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 2233
Printing Date: July 28, 1999
Publishing house: Prentice Hall
Sale Popularity Level: 927132
Studio: Prentice Hall
Other books you might be interested in perusing:
Editor's Notes and Comments:
Product Description:
This leading, two-volume anthology represents America's literary heritage from the colonial times of William Bradford and Anne Bradstreet to the contemporary era of Saul Bellow and Alice Walker. The very first volume covers Christopher Columbus through Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson. Additional Hopi and Navajo myths. Presents multiple selections by authors. Provides an expanded chronological chart. Presents many works in their entirety. For anyone interested in American Literature.
User popularity level:
Rated by buyers 
-
American Literature: Vol. 1 / 0-13-083814-4
This American Literature anthology encompases the Colonial to Romantic periods of American literature. Although the anthology starts out on a European note with Columbus' "Letter Describing His First Voyage" and fails to start the volume of American culture and writings prior to European discovery of the Americas, the volume does at least provide some American Indian myths and writings throughout the anthology in an endeavor to provide fair coverage. There are also female voices included (Anne Bradstreet, Mary Rowlandson, Louisa May Alcott) and writings which represent the slavery voice (Olaudah Equiano, Phillis Wheatley, Frederick Douglass, Harriet Beecher Stowe). All told, this is an excellent anthology of early Colonial and United States literature, and I applaud the effort made to include voices which are sometimes underrepresented in these anthologies.
COLONIAL LITERATURE
- American Indian Legends
- Bay Psalm Book
- Bradford, William
- Bradstreet, Anne
- Byrd, William II
- Columbus, Christopher
- Edwards, Jonathan
- Mather, Cotton
- Morton, Thomas
- New England Primer
- Rowlandson, Mary
- Sewall, Samuel
- Smith, John
- Taylor, Edward
- Wigglesworth, Michael
- Williams, Roger
- Winthrop, John
- Woolman, John
REVOLUTIONARY LITERATURE
- Bartram, William
- de Crevecoeur, Michel-Guillaume-Jean
- Equiano, Olaudah
- Federalist
- Franklin, Benjamin
- Freneau, Philip
- Jefferson, Thomas
- Paine, Thomas
- Wheatley, Phillis
ROMANTIC LITERATURE
- Alcott, Louisa May
- Bryant, William Cullen
- Cooper, James Fenimore
- Dickenson, Emily
- Douglass, Frederick
- Emerson, Ralph Waldo
- Hawthorne, Nathaniel
- Holmes, Oliver Wendell
- Irving, Washington
- Jacobs, Harriet Ann
- Lincoln, Abraham
- Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth
- Lowell, James Russell
- Melville, Herman
- Poe, Edgar Allan
- Stowe, Harriet Beecher
- Thoreau, Henry David
- Thorpe, Thomas Bangs
- Whitman, Walt
- Whittier, John Greenleaf
Rated by buyers 
-
The footnotes are numbered strangely and they don't elaborate on the footnoted item very well.
Rated by buyers 
-
This was the textbook used in my American Literature I class last semester. Volume Two is being used in the second half that I am taking this semester. The book offers a good collection of American Literature from the earliest European Explorers to the late 1800's. The additional information offered in the introductions to each author and literary time period adds to the student's understanding of the works.
Find other books like this one:
