Anthology of American Literature, Volume I

by Shelley Fisher Fishkin, James S. Leonard, Leo Marx, et al.

Book Overview

This two-volume anthology represents Americas literary heritage from the colonial times of William Bradford and Anne Bradstreet to the contemporary era of Saul Bellow and Alice Walker. Volume I covers... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0131987992
• ISBN13: 9780131987999
• Release Date: January 2006
• Publisher: Prentice Hall
• Length: 2306 Pages
• Weight: 3.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.9" x 6.1" x 9.0"

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Cool book/Very extensive

I used this for my literature class and thought it was going to be boring but the history behind the stories is really interesting.

Inclusive of Minority Voices

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 attempt 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

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