Anthology of American Literature, Volume I

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List of contents

Preface xxiii
 
About the Editors xxvi
 
The Literature of Early America 1
Reading the Historical Context 14
CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS (1451-1506) 14
Columbus's Letter Describing His First Voyage 15
THOMAS HARIOT (1560-1621) 19
FROM A Brief and True Report of the Newfound Land of Virginia 19
ÁLVAR NÚÑEZ CABEZA DE VACA (C. 1490-C. 1557) 24
FROM The Journey of Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca 25
JOHN WINTHROP (1588-1649) AND ANNE HUTCHINSON (1591-1643) 29
FROM The Examination of Mrs. Anne Hutchinson at the
Court at Newton 29
IROQUOIS LEAGUE 33
FROM The Constitution of the Five Nations 33
Reading the Critical Context 36
JOHN DRYDEN (1631-1700) 36
FROM Preface to Troilus and Cressida 37
ALEXANDER POPE (1688-1744) 38
FROM An Essay on Criticism 39
Literature of Early America 41
CAPTAIN JOHN SMITH (1580-1631) 41
FROM The General History of Virginia 43
The Third Book 43
Powhatan's Discourse of Peace and War 54
FROM A Description of New England 55
DINÉ BAHANE' 64
FROM Diné bahane': The Navajo Creation Story 65
WILLIAM BRADFORD (1590-1657) 80
FROM History of Plymouth Plantation 81
FROM Chapter 1 81
FROM Chapter 3 83
FROM Chapter 4 84
FROM Chapter 7 86
FROM Chapter 9 87
FROM Chapter 10 90
FROM Book 2 92
FROM Chapter 36 103
THOMAS MORTON (C. 1579-1647) 104
FROM The New English Canaan 105
JOHN WINTHROP (1588-1649) 114
FROM The Journal of John Winthrop 115
A Model of Christian Charity 125
ROGER WILLIAMS (C. 1603-1683) 136
FROM A Key into the Language of America 137
FROM The Bloody Tenet of Persecution for the Cause of Conscience 142
To the Town of Providence 144
THE NEW ENGLANDPRIMER (C. 1683) 145
FROM The New England Primer 146
ANNE BRADSTREET (C. 1612-1672) 152
The Prologue 154
Contemplations 156
The Flesh and the Spirit 162
The Author to Her Book 165
Before the Birth of One of Her Children 165
To My Dear and Loving Husband 166
A Letter to Her Husband Absent Upon Public Employment 166
In Reference to Her Children, 23 June, 1659 167
In Memory of My Dear Grandchild Elizabeth Bradstreet 170
On My Dear Grandchild Simon Bradstreet 170
[On Deliverance] from Another Sore Fit 171
Upon the Burning of Our House, July 10th, 1666 171
As Weary Pilgrim 173
FROM Meditations Divine and Moral 174
MICHAEL WIGGLESWORTH (1631-1705) 177
FROM The Day of Doom 178
EDWARD TAYLOR (C. 1642-1729) 184
Prologue 185
FROM Preparatory Meditations 186
The Reflexion 186
Meditation 6 (First Series) 187
Meditation 8 (First Series) 188
Meditation 38 (First Series) 189
Meditation 39 (First Series) 191
Meditation 150 (Second Series) 192
FROM God's Determinations 193
The Preface 193
The Joy of Church Fellowship Rightly Attended 194
Upon a Spider Catching a Fly 195
Upon Wedlock and Death of Children 197
Huswifery 198
The Ebb and Flow 198
A Fig for Thee Oh! Death 199
COTTON MATHER (1663-1728) 200
FROM The Wonders of the Invisible World 202
The Trial of Bridget Bishop 204
The Trial of Martha Carrier 208
A Third Curiosity 211
FROM Magnalia Christi Americana 211
A General Introduction 211
Galeacius Secundus 212
Thaumatographia Pneumatica 218
SAMUEL SEWALL (1652-1730) 220
The Selling of Joseph 221
FROM The Diary of Samuel Sewall 225
MARY ROWLANDSON (C. 1637-1711) 235
FROM A Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration 235
EBENEZER COOKE (C. 1665-C. 1732) 252
The Sot-Weed Factor 253
SARAH KEMBLE KNIGHT (1666-1727) 270
The Journal of Madam Knight 271
WILLIAM BYRD II (1674-1744) 281
FROM The Secret Diary of William Byrd of Westover, 1709-1712 282
FROM The History of the Dividing Line 286
JOHN WOOLMAN (1720-1772) 292
FROM The Journal of John Woolman 293
JONATHAN EDWARDS (1703-1758) 301
Sarah Pierrepont 303
Personal Narrative 304
FROM A Divine and Supernatural Light 314
Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God 319
The Literature of the Eighteenth Century 331
Reading the Historical Context 341
CORRESPONDENCE 341
Thomas Jefferson to James Madison 342
Thomas Jefferson to John Adams 345
Abigail Adams to John Adams 348
John Adams to Abigail Adams 349
Benjamin Banneker to Thomas Jefferson 351
Thomas Jefferson to Benjamin Banneker 354
THE FEDERALIST/ANTI-FEDERALIST CONTROVERSY 354
The Federalist No. 1 (Alexander Hamilton) 356
The Federalist No. 2 (John Jay) 359
The Federalist No. 10 (James Madison) 362
The Federalist No. 51 (James Madison) 367
Reading the Critical Context 370
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN (1706-1790) 370
Silence Dogood, No. 7 371
Literature of the Eighteenth Century 375
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN (1706-1790) 375
FROM The Autobiography 377
Silence Dogood, No. 2 424
Benjamin Franklin's Epitaph 425
The Witches of Mount Holly 426
FROM Poor Richard's Almanac, 1733 427
FROM Poor Richard's Almanac, 1746 430
The Speech of Miss Polly Baker 432
Observations Concerning the Increase of Mankind 434
Information to Those Who Would Remove to America 439
Speech in the Convention 445
An Address to the Public 446
SAMSON OCCOM (1723-1792) 447
FROM A Short Narrative of My Life 448
The Slow Traveller 453
A Morning Hymn 453
A Son's Farewell 454
Conversion Song 454
Come All My Young Companions, Come 455
MICHEL-GUILLAUME-JEAN DE CRÈVECOEUR (1735-1813) 456
FROM Letters from an American Farmer 458
Letter III What Is an American? 458
Letter IX Description of Charleston 467
Letter XII Distresses of a Frontier Man 471
OLAUDAH EQUIANO (1745-1797) 480
FROM The Life of Olaudah Equiano 482
THOMAS PAINE (1737-1809) 498
FROM Common Sense 500
FROM The American Crisis 502
FROM The Age of Reason 508
THOMAS JEFFERSON (1743-1826) 515
The Declaration of Independence 518
FROM Notes on the State of Virginia 521
FROM Query V: Cascades 521
FROM Query VI: Productions Mineral, Vegetable and Animal 522
Query XIV: Laws 528
FROM Query XVII: Religion 541
FROM Query XVIII: Manners 543
FROM Query XIX: Manufactures 545
FROM The Autobiography of Thomas Jefferson 545
ROYALL TYLER(1757-1826) 560
The Contrast 562
PHILLIS WHEATLEY (1754?-1784) 603
On Virtue 604
To the University of Cambridge, in New England 604
On Being Brought from Africa to America 605
On the Death of the Rev. Mr. George Whitefield. 1770. 606
On Imagination 607
To S. M. A Young African Painter, On Seeing His Works 608
To His Excellency General Washington 609
PHILIP FRENEAU (1752-1832) 611
The Power of Fancy 612
The Hurricane 616
To Sir Toby 617
The Wild Honey Suckle 619
The Indian Burying Ground 620
On Mr. Paine's Rights of Man 621
On a Honey Bee 622
On the Universality and Other Attributes of the God of Nature 623
On the Religion of Nature 624
WILLIAM BARTRAM (1739-1823) 625
FROM Travels through North and South Carolina 626
JUDITH SARGENT MURRAY (1751-1820) 641
On the Equality of the Sexes 642
SUSANNA HASWELL ROWSON (1762-1824) 649
Slaves in Algiers 650
RED JACKET (C. 1750-1830) 683
The Indians Must Worship the Great Spirit in Their Own Way 684
The Literature of the Early- to Mid-Nineteenth Century 686
Reading the Historical Context 701
TECUMSEH (1768-1813) 701
Speech to the Osage Indians 701
WILLIAM LLOYD GARRISON (1805-1879) 703
On the Constitution and the Union 703
STEPHEN A. DOUGLAS (1813-1861) 705
FROM Third Joint Debate, at Jonesboro 705
WOMEN'S RIGHTS CONVENTION, SENECA FALLS, NEW YORK (JULY 1848) 713
Declaration of Sentiments 713
Reading the Critical Context 715
EDGAR ALLAN POE (1809-1849) 715
FROM “Twice-Told Tales, by Nathaniel Hawthorne” [A Review] 716
The Philosophy of Composition 719
FROM The Poetic Principle 728
HERMAN MELVILLE (1819-1891) 733
FROM Hawthorne and His Mosses 733
Literature of the Early- to Mid-Nineteenth Century 739
WASHINGTONIRVING(1783-1859) 739
FROM The Sketch-Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. 741
The Author's Account of Himself 741
Rip Van Winkle 743
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow 756
Traits of Indian Character 777
BLACK HAWK (1767-1838) 784
FROM Black Hawk's Autobiography 784
WILLIAM APESS (1798-1839) 789
FROM A Son of the Forest 789
Eulogy on King Philip 796
ELIAS BOUDINOT (C.1802-1839) 801
An Address to the Whites 801
FROM The Cherokee Phoenix 811
PENINA MOÏSE (1797-1880) 816
To Persecuted Foreigners 817
The Mirror and the Echo 818
To a Lottery Ticket 818
AUGUSTUS BALDWINLONGSTREET (1790-1870) 819
The Fight 820
JAMES FENIMORE COOPER (1789-1851) 827
Preface to The Leather-Stocking Tales 829
FROM The Pioneers 832
FROM The Deerslayer 839
THOMAS BANGS THORPE (1815-1878) 856
The Big Bear of Arkansas 857
WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT (1794-1878) 865
Thanatopsis 867
The Yellow Violet 869
To a Waterfowl 870
To Cole, the Painter, Departing for Europe 871
To the Fringed Gentian 871
The Prairies 872
Abraham Lincoln 875
SOJOURNER TRUTH (1797?-1883) 875
Speech to the Women's Rights Convention, Akron, Ohio 877
FROM Narrative of Sojourner Truth 878
EDGAR ALLAN POE (1809-1849) 880
Sonnet-To Science 883
To Helen 883
The City in the Sea 884
Sonnet-Silence 885
Lenore 886
The Raven 887
Annabel Lee 890
The Fall of the House of Usher 891
The Black Cat 904
Ligeia 911
The Tell-Tale Heart 922
The Purloined Letter 925
RALPH WALDO EMERSON (1803-1882) 938
Nature 940
The American Scholar 969
The Divinity School Address 982
Self-Reliance 994
The Poet 1011
The Rhodora 1026
Each and All 1026
Concord Hymn 1027
The Problem 1028
Ode 1030
Hamatreya 1033
Give All to Love 1034
Days 1036
Brahma 1036
Terminus 1037
NATHANIEL PARKER WILLIS (1806-1867) 1038
January 1, 1828 1039
January 1, 1829 1039
Lady in the White Dress, I Helped into the Omnibus 1040
MARIA STEWART (1803-1879) 1041
An Address Delivered Before The Afric-American Female
Intelligence Society of Boston 1042
GEORGE MOSES HORTON (1797-1883) 1046
On Liberty and Slavery 1047
The Lover's Farewell 1048
On Hearing of the Intention of a Gentleman
to Purchase the Poet's Freedom 1049
The Creditor to His Proud Debtor 1050
Division of an Estate 1051
Death of an Old Carriage Horse 1052
George Moses Horton, Myself 1053
MARGARET FULLER (1810-1850) 1054
FROM Woman in the Nineteenth Century 1056
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE (1804-1864) 1067
Young Goodman Brown 1069
The Birth-Mark 1079
Rappaccini's Daughter 1090
My Kinsman, Major Molineux 1110
The Maypole of Merry Mount 1124
The Minister's Black Veil 1131
The Artist of the Beautiful 1141
Ethan Brand 1157
The Custom-House: Introductory to The Scarlet Letter 1167
The Scarlet Letter 1193
HERMAN MELVILLE (1819-1891) 1310
FROM Moby-Dick 1312
The Pulpit 1312
The Sermon 1314
The Mast-Head 1320
The Whiteness of the Whale 1324
Bartleby, the Scrivener 1329
Benito Cereno 1355
Billy Budd 1413
The Portent 1471
Shiloh 1472
Malvern Hill 1472
A Utilitarian View of the Monitor's Fight 1473
The House-Top 1474
The Swamp Angel 1475
The College Colonel 1477
The Æolian Harp 1478
The Tuft of Kelp 1479
The Maldive Shark 1479
The Berg 1480
Art 1481
Greek Architecture 1481
LYDIA HOWARD HUNTLEY SIGOURNEY (1791-1865) 1481
Death of an Infant 1482
The Indian's Welcome to the Pilgrim Fathers 1483
Indian Names 1484
LYDIA MARIA CHILD (1802-1880) 1485
Charity Bowery 1485
The Black Saxons 1490
Slavery's Pleasant Homes 1497
The New England Boy's Song about Thanksgiving Day 1501
JOSIAH HENSON (1789-1883) 1503
FROM The Life of Josiah Henson 1504
FREDERICK DOUGLASS (1818-1895) 1516
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass 1517
Letter to His Old Master 1577
What to the Slave is the Fourth of July? 1582
West India Emancipation 1585
HENRY DAVID THOREAU (1817-1862) 1594
Civil Disobedience 1596
Walden 1612
They Who Prepare my Evening Meal Below 1793
On Fields O'er Which the Reaper's Hand Has Passed 1793
Smoke 1793
Conscience 1794
My Life Has Been the Poem 1795
WILLIAM GILMORE SIMMS (1806-1870) 1795
Grayling; or “Murder Will Out” 1796
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW (1807-1882) 1819
A Psalm of Life 1820
The Arsenal at Springfield 1821
The Jewish Cemetery at Newport 1823
My Lost Youth 1825
Aftermath 1827
The Tide Rises, the Tide Falls 1827
FROM The Song of Hiawatha 1828
JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER (1807-1892) 1833
The Hunters of Men 1834
The Farewell 1836
Massachusetts to Virginia 1837
Toussaint l'Ouverture 1840
Song of Slaves in the Desert 1846
Barbara Frietchie 1848
E. D. E. N. SOUTHWORTH (1819-1899) 1850
The Thunderbolt to the Hearth 1852
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL (1819-1891) 1865
To the Dandelion 1865
FROM The Biglow Papers, First Series 1867
FROM A Fable for Critics 1872
HARRIET BEECHER STOWE (1811-1896) 1881
FROM Uncle Tom's Cabin 1883
FANNY FERN (1811-1872) 1901
Aunt Hetty on Matrimony 1903
Hints to Young Wives 1904
Owls Kill Humming-Birds 1905
The Tear of a Wife 1906
Mrs. Adolphus Smith Sporting the “Blue Stocking” 1907
Fresh Fern Leaves: Leaves of Grass 1907
Blackwell's Island 1910
Blackwell's Island No. 3 1912
Independence 1914
The Working-Girls of New York 1914
WILLIAM WELLS BROWN (1814-1884) 1916
The Escape 1916
HARRIET ANN JACOBS (1813-1897) 1952
FROM Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl 1953
JAMES M. WHITFIELD (1822-1871) 1980
America 1981
Self-Reliance 1985
ABRAHAM LINCOLN (1809-1865) 1987
To Horace Greeley 1988
Gettysburg Address 1989
Second Inaugural Address 1990
FRANCES E. W. HARPER (1825-1911) 1991
Bury Me in a Free Land 1992
To the Union Savers of Cleveland 1993
Eliza Harris 1994
The Slave Mother 1996
Learning to Read 1997
Aunt Chloe's Politics 1998
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT (1832-1888) 1999
FROM Little Women 2002
FROM Hospital Sketches 2034
A Day 2034
A Night 2042
EMMA LAZARUS (1849-1887) 2052
In the Jewish Synagogue at Newport 2053
The New Colossus 2054
1492 2055
WALT WHITMAN (1819-1892) 2055
Preface to the 1855 Edition of Leaves of Grass 2057
Song of Myself 2072
FROM Inscriptions 2119
To You 2119
One's-Self I Sing 2119
When I Read the book 2119
I Hear America Singing 2119
Poets to Come 2120
FROM Children of Adam 2120
From Pent-up Aching Rivers 2120
Out of the Rolling Ocean the Crowd 2122
As Adam, Early in the Morning 2122
Once I Pass'd Through a Populous City 2122
FROM Calamus 2123
What Think You I Take My Pen in Hand? 2123
I Saw in Louisiana a Live-Oak Growing 2123
I Hear It Was Charged Against Me 2124
Crossing Brooklyn Ferry 2124
FROM Sea-Drift 2129
Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking 2129
FROM By the Roadside 2133
When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer 2133
The Dalliance of the Eagles 2134
FROM Drum-Taps 2134
Beat! Beat! Drums! 2134
Cavalry Crossing a Ford 2135
Bivouac on a Mountain Side 2135
Vigil Strange I Kept on the Field One Night 2135
A Sight in Camp in the Daybreak Gray and Dim 2136
The Wound-Dresser 2137
As I Lay with My Head in Your Lap Camerado 2139
FROM Memories of President Lincoln 2139
When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd 2139
FROM Autumn Rivulets 2146
There was a Child Went Forth 2146
Sparkles from the Wheel 2147
Passage to India 2148
FROM Whispers of Heavenly Death 2156
A Noiseless Patient Spider 2156
FROM From Noon to Starry Night 2156
To a Locomotive in Winter 2156
FROM Democratic Vistas 2157
EMILY DICKINSON (1830-1886) 2177
49 I never lost as much but twice 2179
67 Success is counted sweetest 2179
165 A Wounded Deer-leaps highest 2180
185 “Faith” is a fine invention 2180
210 The thought beneath so slight a film 2180
214 I taste a liquor never brewed 2180
216 Safe in their Alabaster Chambers 2181
241 I like a look of Agony 2181
249 Wild Nights-Wild Nights! 2182
258 There's a certain Slant of light 2182
280 I felt a Funeral, in my Brain 2182
303 The Soul selects her own Society 2183
324 Some keep the Sabbath going to Church 2183
328 A Bird came down the Walk 2184
338 I know that He exists 2185
341 After great pain, a formal feeling comes 2185
401 What Soft-Cherubic Creatures 2185
435 Much Madness is divinest Sense 2186
441 This is my letter to the World 2186
449 I died for Beauty-but was scarce 2186
465 I heard a Fly buzz-when I died 2187
520 I started Early-Took my Dog 2187
585 I like to see it lap the Miles 2188
632 The Brain-is wider than the sky 2189
640 I cannot live with You 2189
670 One need not be a Chamber-to be Haunted 2190
709 Publication-is the Auction 2191
712 Because I could not stop for Death 2192
764 Presentiment-is that long Shadow-on the Lawn 2192
976 Death is a Dialogue between 2192
986 A narrow Fellow in the Grass 2193
1052 I never saw a Moor 2193
1078 The Bustle in a House 2194
1129 Tell all the truth but tell it slant 2194
1207 He preached upon “Breadth” till it argued him narrow 2194
1463 A Route of Evanescence 2195
1545 The Bible is an antique Volume 2195
1624 Apparently with no surprise 2196
1670 In Winter in my Room 2196
1732 My life closed twice before its close 2197
1755 To make a prairie it takes a clover and one bee 2197
1760 Elysium is as far as to 2197
Letters to T. W. Higginson 2198
 
Reference Works, Bibliographies 2200
 
Criticism, Literary and Cultural History 2203
 
Acknowledgments 2208
 
Index to Authors, Titles, and First Lines 2209
 

About the author

JAMES S. LEONARD received his Ph.D. from Brown University, and is Professor of English (and former English Department chair) at The Citadel. He is the editor of Making Mark Twain Work in the Classroom (Duke University Press, 1999), coeditor of Authority and Textuality: Current Views of Collaborative Writing (Locust Hill Press, 1994) and Satire or Evasion? Black Perspectives on Huckleberry Finn (Duke University Press, 1992), and coauthor of The Fluent Mundo: Wallace Stevens and the Structure of Reality
(University of Georgia Press, 1988). He has served as president of the Mark Twain Circle
of America (2010-2012), managing editor of The Mark Twain Annual (since 2004), and editor of the Mark Twain Circular (1987-2008), and is a major contributor to The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Poets and Poetry (Greenwood Press, 2006) and American History Through Literature (Charles Scribner's Sons, 2005).
 
 
SHELLEY FISHER FISHKIN is Professor of English and Director of American Studies at Stanford University. She is the author, editor, or coeditor of over forty books, including the award-winning Was Huck Black? Mark Twain and African American Voices (1993), From Fact to Fiction: Journalism and Imaginative Writing in America (1988), and Feminist Engagements: Forays into American Literature and Culture (2009), as well as Lighting Out for the Territory (1997), The Oxford Mark Twain (1996), The Historical
Guide to Mark Twain (2002), Mark Twain's Book of Animals (2009), The Mark Twain Anthology:Great Writers on his Life and Work (2010), Is He Dead? A Comedy in Three Acts by Mark Twain (2003), People of the Book: Thirty Scholars Reflect on Their Jewish Identity (with Jeffrey Rubin-Dorsky) (1996), Listening to Silences: New Essays in Feminist Criticism (with Elaine Hedges)(1994), and Sport of the Gods and Other Essential Writings by Paul Laurence Dunbar (with David Bradley) (2005). She has also published more than eighty articles, essays, or reviews in publications including American Quarterly, American Literature, Journal of American History, American Literary History, and the New York Times Book Review, and has lectured on American literature in Belgium, Canada, Chile, China, France, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Korea,
Mexico, the Netherlands, Portugal, Russia, Taiwan, Turkey, the United Kingdom,
and throughout the United States. A member of the first class of women to graduate from Yale College, she stayed on at Yale to earn her M.A. in English and her Ph.D. in American Studies. Before her arrival at Stanford, she directed the Poynter Fellowship
in Journalism at Yale and taught American Studies and English at the University
of Texas at Austin, where she chaired the American Studies Department. She co-founded the Charlotte Perkins Gilman Society and is a past president of the Mark Twain Circle of America and the American Studies Association.
 
DAVID BRADLEY earned a BA in Creative Writing at the University of Pennsylvania  in 1972 and a MA in United States Studies at the University of London in 1974. A Professor of English at Temple University from 1976 to 1997, Bradley has been a visiting professor at the San Diego State University, the University of California-San Diego, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Colgate University, the College of William &
Mary, the City College of the City University of New York and the Michener Center for Writers at the University of Texas, Austin. He is currently an Associate Professor of Fiction in the Creative Writing Program at the University of Oregon. Bradley has read and lectured extensively in the United States and also in Japan, Korea, Pakistan, the United Kingdom, South Africa and Australia. He is the author of two novels, South Street (1975) and The Chaneysville Incident (1981) which was awarded the 1982 PEN/Faulkner Award and an Academy Award from the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters. His non-fiction has appeared in Esquire, Redbook, The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times and The New Yorker. A recipient of fellowships from the John Simon
Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts His most recent publication is semi-scholarly: The Essential Writings of Paul Laurence Dunbar, which he co-edited with Shelley Fisher Fishkin. His current works in progress include a creative non-fiction book, The Bondage Hypothesis: Meditations on Race, History and America, a novel-in-stories, Raystown, and an essay collection: Lunch Bucket Pieces: New and Selected Creative Nonfiction
 
DANA D. NELSON received her Ph.D. from Michigan State, and she is the Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Professor of English and American Studies at Vanderbilt University. She is the author of The Word in Black and White: Reading “Race” in American Literature, 1638-1867 (1992), National Manhood: Capitalist Citizenship and the Imagined Fraternity of White Men (1998), and Bad for Democracy: How the Presidency Undermines the Power of the People (2008) as well as editor of several reprint editions of nineteenth-century American female writers (including Rebecca Rush, Lydia Maria Child, Fanny Kemble, and Frances Butler Leigh). Her teaching interests include comparative American colonial literatures, developing democracy in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, ethnic and minority literatures, women's literature, and frontier representations in literature. She has served or is serving on numerous editorial boards, including American Literature, Early American Literature, American Literary History, Arizona Quarterly, and American Quarterly. She is an active member of the Modern Language Association and the American Studies Association. She is currently working on a book that studies developing practices and representations of democracy in the late British colonies and the early United States.
 
JOSEPH CSICSILA is Professor of English Language and Literature at Eastern Michigan University and a specialist in nineteenth- and early twentieth-century American literature and culture. He is the author and/or editor of five books including Canons by Consensus:
Critical Trends and American Literature Anthologies (2004), which is the first systematic study of American literature textbooks used by college instructors in the past century, Centenary Reflections on Mark Twain's No. 44, The Mysterious Stranger (2009), and Heretical Fictions: Religion in the Literature of Mark Twain (2010). He has also published numerous articles on such authors as Mary Wilkins Freeman, Sarah Orne Jewett, and William Faulkner. Csicsila has served as the editor of Journal of Narrative Theory and is currently book review editor for The Mark Twain Annual.

Summary

For courses in American Literary Survey.
 
This two-volume series represents America's literary heritage from colonial times through the American renaissance to the contemporary era of post-modernism.  Volume I offers early contextual selections from Christopher Columbus and Gaspar Perez de Villagra, as well as an excerpt from the Iroquois League's Constitution of the Five Nations, and ends with an extensive selection of the poetry of Emily Dickinson and Walt Whitman. This anthology is best known for its useful pedagogy, including extensive and straightforward headnotes and introductions, as well as its balanced approach to editorial selection process.
 

Product details

• Authors: David Bradley, Joseph Csicsila, Shelley Fisher Fishkin, James S. Leonard, George McMichael, Dana D. Nelson
• Publisher: Pearson Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.01.2010
• EAN: 9780205779390
• ISBN: 978-0-205-77939-0
• No. of pages: 2256
• Series: Longman; Longman
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies