Anthology of American Literature [Hardcover]

George L. McMichael (Editor), Frederick C. Crews (Editor)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 013573973X | ISBN-13: 978-0135739730 | Publication Date: April 1997 | Edition: 6 Tch

For courses in American Literary Survey. This leading, two-volume anthology represents America's literary heritage from the colonial times of William Bradford and Anne Bradstreet to the contemporary era of Saul Bellow and Julia Alvarez. Volume II begins with Mark Twain and moves through the poetry of Billy Collins. This anthology, known for its solid headnotes and introductions now features 2 ways to customize.

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For nearly three decades, students and instructors have complemented their introductory American Literature studies with George McMichael’s Anthology of American Literature 8e.  Carefully selected works introduce readers to America's literary heritage, from the colonial period of William Bradford and Anne Bradstreet to the contemporary era of Saul Bellow and Toni Morrison.

 

In this eighth edition, the table of contents will continue to include classic canonical works and new canonical works chosen for their literary value.  These texts represent the best available scholarly texts and include as many complete works as possible. 

 

In addition to varied and time-tested selections, an expanded chronological chart and interactive timeline help readers associate literary works with historical, political, technological, and cultural developments.

 

 

 www.prenhall.com/mcmichael  FREE updated Companion Website™ includes quizzes for text selections, author links, an interactive timeline, and additional American literature resources.

 

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·    Stephen Crane, The Red Badge of Courage

·    Frederick Douglass, Narrative of Frederick Douglass

·    Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter

·    James Fennimore Cooper, The Last of the Mohicans

·    Washington Irving,The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Other Stories

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About the Author

James S. Leonard  is Professor and Chair of the Department of English at The Citadel. He is the editor of Making Mark Twain Work in the Classroom (Duke University Press, 1999), coeditor of Author'ity and Textuality: Current Views of Collaborative Writing (Locust Hill Press, 1994) and Satire or Evasion? Black Perspectives on Huckleberry Finn (Duke University Press, 1992), coauthor of The Fluent Mundo: Wallace Stevens and the Structure of Reality (University of Georgia Press, 1988), editor of the Mark Twain Circular (since 1987), managing editor of The Mark Twain Annual (since 2004), and 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 co-editor of forty books, including the award-winning Was Huck Black? Mark Twain and African  American Voices (1993) and From Fact to Fiction: Journalism and Imaginative Writing  in America (1988), as well as  Lighting Out for the Territory (1997),  The Oxford Mark Twain (1996), the  Historical Guide to Mark Twain (2002),   Is He Dead? A Comedy in Three Acts by Mark Twain (2004),   People of the Book: Thirty Scholars Reflect on Their Jewish Identity (with Jeffrey Rubin-Dorsky) (1996), Listening to Silences: New Essays in Feminist Criticism (1994) (with Elaine Hedges), and  Sport of the Gods  and Other Essential Writings by  Paul Laurence Dunbar (with David Bradley) (2005). She has also published over 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 U.K. and throughout the U.S.

A member of the first class of women to graduate from Yale College, she stayed on at Yale to earn her MA in English and her PhD 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 (Ph.D.MichiganState) is the Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Professor of English and American Studies at Vanderbilt University.  She is author of The Word in Black and White:  Reading ‘Race’ in American Literature, 1638-1867 (Oxford UP, 1992) and National Manhood:  Capitalist Citizenship and the Imagined Fraternity of White Men (Duke UP, 1998) as well as editor of several reprint editions of nineteenth-century American women 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 in frontier representations and 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 two books: the first argues that presidentialism is bad for US democracy, and the second studies developing practices and representations of democracy in the late British colonies and early United States.

 

 

Joseph Csicsila is Associate Professor of English Language and Literature at Eastern Michigan University. He is author of Canons by Consensus: Critical Trends and American Literature Anthologies (2004), the first systematic study of American literature textbooks used by college instructors in the last century. A specialist in nineteenth- and early twentieth-century American literature and culture, Csicsila’s essays on Mark Twain, Mary Wilkins Freeman, William Faulkner, and other American literary figures have appeared in numerous journals. Currently he serves as Executive Coordinator of the Mark Twain Circle of America.

 

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Product Details

• Hardcover
• Publisher: Prentice Hall; 6 Tch edition (April 1997)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 013573973X
• ISBN-13: 978-0135739730
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
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3.0 out of 5 stars Filled With A Wealth Of Historical Literature, March 7, 2010

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This review is from: Anthology of American Literature, Volume I (Anthology of American Literature) (Paperback)

Anthology of American Literature covers early colonial American history, beginning with the first English settlement in North America known as Jamestown, Virginia in 1607. Among the first group of settlers was Capt. John Smith who written several reports of his exploration that was published in the early 1600. In Smith's published works, his descriptions of North America was a vast land of endless bounty and nourishment, and redemption in what he described as paradise where he later met a young Indian girl named Pocahontas that he had a relationship with, and brought her to England with him where she later died of an illness.

The book covers selected works in from the early 16th century to early to mid 19th century. Dating back to the civil war, and writings from William Bradford, Thomas Morton, John Winthrop, and Anne Bradstreet.

5.0 out of 5 stars bought it as a textbook, August 16, 2011

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This review is from: Anthology of American Literature, Volume I (10th Edition) (Paperback)

i bought this book as a textbook. the book itself is just a collection of poems and literary work by some old american writers. which is exactly what it supposed to be. for that this product fully lived up to my expectation.

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent, December 22, 2010

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This review is from: Anthology of American Literature, Volume I (Anthology of American Literature) (Paperback)

Interface: Poetry and Selected Readings, Volume One, 2010

This is an excellent book to keep as a reference guide and pass along to future generations. It is very big and the print is very small. Reading glasses may be recommended but I usually read in the daylight. There are a lot of examples of good short-stories and very good poems. Many examples to follow for new and intermediate writers.