Teaching the Literature of Early America

This volume offers approaches and methods to help teachers and their students reconceptualize early American literatures as a complex body of multifaceted works rather than merely an offshoot of British culture or a putatively American past.Different approaches are presented to literatures of Native Americans, African Americans, women, and French and Spanish colonials. Genre studies essays focus on early poetry, fiction, drama, autobiography, and captivity narratives.Teaching the Literatures of Early America shows the innovative ways in which scholars and teachers are addressing the richness and variety of early materials.

About the author

Carla Mulford, associate professor of English at Pennsylvania State University, was the founding president of the Society of Early Americanists and the editor of colonial materials for the canon-shifting Heath Anthology of American Literature (1sted., 1990). Her publications include over twenty-five essays, as well as John Leacock's First Book of the American Chronicles of the Times, 1774-1775 (1987); Only for the Eye of a Friend: The Poems of Annis Boudinot Stockton (1995); a Penguin Classics edition of W. H. Brown's The Power of Sympathy and H. W. Foster's The Coquette (1996); and American Women Prose Writers to 1820, with Angela Vietto and Amy E. Winans (1998).

Product details

• Authors: Carla (EDT) Mulford
• Assisted by: Carla (Editor), Mulford (Editor), Carla Mulford (Editor), Carla Mulford Conklin (Editor)
• Publisher: Modern Language Assn Of Amer
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.01.2000
• EAN: 9780873523585
• ISBN: 978-0-87352-358-5
• No. of pages: 402
• Dimensions: 159 mm x 241 mm x 32 mm
• Series: Options for Teaching (Numbered; Options for Teaching
• Subjects: Education and learning > Adult education/adult education classes > Adult education class / course materials (language); Humanities, art, music > Education > School education, didactics, methodology; Social sciences, law, business > Ethnology > Ethnology