Heath Anthology of American Literature: v. B (Heath Anthology of American Literature) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0618532986 ISBN 13: 9780618532988

Publisher: Wadsworth Pub Co, 2005

Synopsis

Unrivaled diversity and teachability have made The Heath Anthology a best-selling text since the publication of its first edition in 1989. In presenting a more inclusive canon of American literature, The Heath Anthology continues to balance the traditional, leading names in American literature with lesser-known writers and to build upon the anthology's other strengths: its apparatus and its ancillaries.

Available in five volumes for greater flexibility, the Fifth Edition offers thematic clusters to stimulate classroom discussions and to show the treatment of important topics across the genres. The indispensable web site includes revised timelines, a multimedia gallery to support thematic clusters, and a searchable Instructor's Guide.

• The thematic cluster, "Humor of the Old Southwest," features works by Davy Crockett, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Alice Cary.
• Authors include Major George Lowery, the second chief of the Eastern Cherokee; John Ross; Lorenzo de Zavala; and Nancy Gardner Prince.
• Selections include "The Maldive Shark," by Herman Melville, "Ar'n't I a Woman?" by Sojourner Truth, and "Hints to Young Wives" by Fanny Fern (Sara Willis Parton).
• Walt Whitman's "Crossing Brooklyn Ferry," previously omitted from important literary canons, is offered as a rich selection of the "American Renaissance."

About this title

Synopsis:

Unrivaled diversity and teachability have made "The Heath Anthology" a best-selling text since the publication of its first edition in 1989. In presenting a more inclusive canon of American literature, "The Health Anthology" continues to balance the traditional, leading names in American literature with lesser-known writers and to build upon the anthology's other strengths: its apparatus and its ancillaries.

About this edition

• Publisher: Wadsworth Pub Co
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0618532986
• ISBN 13: 9780618532988
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 5
• Number of pages: 1706
• Editor: Lauter Paul, Yarborough Richard, Bryer Jackson R.