Bestsellers in Nineteenth-Century America - An Anthology

Bestsellers in Nineteenth Century America seeks to produce for students novels, poems and other printed material that sold extremely well when they first appeared in the United States.

List of contents

1. Charlotte Temple: A Tale of Truth (1791), entire work; 2. The Life of Washington; with Curious Anecdotes, Equally Honorable to Himself and Exemplary to His Young Countrymen (1800), selections; 3. American Tract Society, entire works; 4. Awful Disclosures (1836), selections; 5. The Illustrated Self-Instructor in Phrenology and Physiology (1840), selections; 6. Treatise on Domestic Economy (1841), selections; 7. The Quaker City: Or, the Monks of Monk Hall (1845), selections; 8. Evangeline, A Tale of Acadie (1849), entire work; 9. Reveries of a Bachelor: Or, A Book of the Heart (1850), selections; 10. Uncle Tom's Cabin; Or Life Among the Lowly (1852), selections; 11. Ten Nights in a Bar-Room, and What I Saw There (1854), entire work; 12. Malaeska; The Indian Wife of the White Hunter (1860), entire work; 13. Ragged Dick, or, Street Life in New York with the Boot-Blacks (1868), entire work; 14. Little Women, or, Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy (1868), selections; 15. The Gates Ajar (1868), entire work; 16. "The Luck of Roaring Camp" (1868), entire work "John Jenkins, Or, the Smoker Reformed" (1871), entire work; 17. Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ (1880), selections; 18. The Hidden Hand: or, Capitola the Madcap (1888), selections; 19. In His Steps: "What Would Jesus Do" (1896), selections.

About the author

Paul C. Gutjahr

Product details

• Authors: Paul C. Gutjahr, Paul C. Gutjahr
• Assisted by: Paul C. Gutjahr (Editor), Paul C. Gutjahr (Editor)
• Publisher: Anthem Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.03.2017
• EAN: 9781783085798
• ISBN: 978-1-78308-579-8
• No. of pages: 1200
• Series: Anthem Nineteenth-Century; Anthem Nineteenth-Century Series; Anthem Nineteenth-Century Series
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; USA, English, LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 19th Century, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900, United States of America, USA