Amercian Literature Volume 1

Informationen zum Autor William E. Cain is Mary Jewett Gaiser Professor of English at Wellesley College. Among his many publications is a monograph on American literary and cultural criticism! 1900-1945! in The Cambridge History of American Literature! Vol. 5 (2003). He is a co-editor of the Norton Anthology of Literary Theory and Criticism (2nd ed.! 2010)! and! with Sylvan Barnet! he has co-authored a number of books on literature and composition. His recent publications include essays on Ralph Ellison! Ernest Hemingway! George Orwell! Shakespeare! Edith Wharton! and the painter Mark Rothko. Alice McDermott is the author of the forthcoming novel Someone and six previous novels! including After This; Child of My Heart; Charming Billy! winner of the 1998 National Book Award; and At Weddings and Wakes! all published by Farrar! Straus and Giroux. That Night! At Weddings and Wakes! and After This were all finalists for the Pulitzer Prize. McDermott lives with her family outside Washington! D.C. Lance E. Newman is Professor of English and Environmental Studies at Westminster College in Salt Lake City! where he teaches Early American Literature! Environmental Literature! and Creative Writing. He has also worked as a river guide for more than two decades! leading rafting trips in Southeastern Utah and in Grand Canyon. He is the author of The Grand Canyon Reader (University of California Press! 2011) and Our Common Dwelling: Henry Thoreau! Transcendentalism! and the Class Politics of Nature (Palgrave! 2005). With Joel Pace and Chris Keonig-Woodyard! he co-edited Transatlantic Romanticism: An Anthology of British! American! and Canadian Literature! 1767-1867 (Longman! 2006). He co-produced the documentary film Canyonlands: Edward Abbey and the Great American Desert (2011) with Roderick Coover. Newman's poems have appeared in many print and web magazines! and he is the author of two poetry chapbooks! Come Kanab (Dusi-e/chaps Kollectiv! 2007) and 3by3by3 (Beard of Bees! 2010)! both available free on the Web. Hilary E. Wyss is Hargis Professor of American Literature at Auburn University! where she teaches courses in early American literature! American studies! and Native American studies. She is the author of over a dozen articles and book chapters as well as three books! including English Letters and Indian Literacies: Reading! Writing! and New England Missionary Schools! 1750-1830 (University of Pennsylvania Press! 2012); Early Native Literacies in New England: a Documentary and Critical Anthology (University of Massachusetts Press! 2008! co-edited with Kristina Bross); and Writing Indians: Literacy! Christianity! and Native Community in Early America (University of Massachusetts Press! 2000). She has won teaching awards at Auburn University as well as national research grants to support her work. She has served on the editorial board of the journal Early American Literature and was most recently the President of the Society of Early Americanists. Klappentext American Literature offers a wide range of selections with minimal editorial apparatus at an affordable price. This new edition of American Literature presents an exciting opportunity for readers. In keeping with the first edition! we created a text that provides a wide of selections. You will find many of the pieces you would expect to see in an American literature text! q and we have taken some leaps and included selections that are just as read-worthy! yet perhaps not as well known. You will recognize the authors of these selections and once you read these works! you will understand why they were included. Zusammenfassung Includes bibliographical references and index. Inhaltsverzeichnis 29123384 ...

Klappentext

American Literature offers a wide range of selections with minimal editorial apparatus at an affordable price.

This new edition of American Literature presents an exciting opportunity for readers. In keeping with the first edition, we created a text that provides a wide of selections. You will find many of the pieces you would expect to see in an American literature text, q and we have taken some leaps and included selections that are just as read-worthy, yet perhaps not as well known. You will recognize the authors of these selections and once you read these works, you will understand why they were included.

Zusammenfassung
Includes bibliographical references and index.

Inhalt

Part One: Exploration and Colonization (1492-1700) To The Reader David Cusick (Tuscarora) (c.1780-c.1831) A Tale of the Foundation of the Great Island, Now North America Thin Leather/Comalk Hawkih (Akimel O'odham, or Pima) (Dates TK). Translated by Edward H. Wood (Akimel O'odham, or Pima) and written down by J. William Lloyd The Story of the Creation Context and Response: King James Bible (1611), Genesis 1-3 Christopher Columbus (1451-1506), Letter to Luis de Santangel Regarding the First Voyage From Letter to Ferdinand and Isabella Regarding the Fourth Voyage Gallery 1: Spanish Narratives of Exploration and Colonization Bartolome de las Casas (1484-1566), From The Devastation of the Indies: Hispaniola Bernal Diaz del Castillo (1492-1585), From The Truthful History of the Conquest of New Spain Nahuatl Elegies (1523), Epic Description of the Besieged City" and "Flowers and Songs of Sorrow" Isabel de Guevara, "Letter to Princess Juana, from Paraguay, 1556" Catalina de Erauso (1585-1650), From Memoir of a Basque Lieutenant Nun Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz (1648-1695), "Prologue to the Reader" John Smith (1580-1631) From The Generall Historie Context and Responses: Woodcuts by Theodor de Bry from A Briefe and True Report of the New Found Land of Virginia from the Letter of John Rolfe to Sir Thomas Dale, 1614 William Bradford (1590-1657) From Of Plymouth Plantation Context and Response: from Thomas Morton, New English Canaan John Winthrop (1588-1672) A Modell of Christian Charity from Journal Context and Response: from Massachusetts General Court (1637), Examination of Mrs. Anne Hutchinson at the Court at Newton Anne Bradstreet (1612-1672) The Prologue The Author to her Book In Honor of that High and Mighty Princess Queen Elizabeth of Happy Memory Before the Birth of One of Her Children To My Dear and Loving Husband In Memory of the Dear Grandchild Elizabeth Bradstreet, Who Deceased August 1665, Being a Year and a Half Old In Memory of My Dear Grandchild Anne Bradstreet, Who Deceased June 20, 1669, Being Three Years and Seven Months Old Here Follows Some Verses Upon the Burning of Our House To My Dear Children Context and Response: Edward Taylor (c. 1642-1729), Huswifery Gallery 2: Vernacular Writing and the Individual Richard Frethorne, Letters to his parents, Virginia 1623 Confessions of Praying Indians Samuel Sewell (1652-1730), from Diary William Byrd (1674-1744), from Secret Diary Rebekah Chamblit (ca.1706-1733), The Declaration, Dying Warning and Advice Eliza Lucas Pinckney (1723-1793), Letters Mary Rowlandson (1637-1711) A True History of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson Context and Response: Ransom letters Cotton Mather (1663-1728) from Wonders of the Invisible World Context and Response: Tituba Trial Transcript * Part Two: Enlightenment and Revolution (1700-1830) To the Reader Sarah Kemble Knight (1666-1727), Private Journal of a Journey from Boston to New York Jonathan Edwards (1703-1758) Personal Narrative Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) The Way to Wealth Remarks Concerning the Savages of North America From The Autobiography Samson Occom (1723-1792) A Short Narrative of My Life Petition for the Montaukett People Context and Response: Selected letters, Eleazar Wheelock J. Hector St. John de Crevecoeur (1735-1813) From Letters from an American Farmer Gallery 3: Declarations of Independence Signatures on Declaration of Independence Thomas Paine (1737-1809), From Common Sense and The American Crisis, No. 1 John Ad…