Popular American Literature of the 19th Century - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0195141407 ISBN 13: 9780195141405

Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc, 2001

Synopsis

As the popularity of traditional period courses in American and English literature declines in favour of multi-cultural and multi-national clustering of works, a demand for anthologies grouping different texts in different categories is increasing. These collections will be used in courses focused specificially on the anthology contents, but it is more likely that they will be adopted as one of several texts in an American Studies programme. American popular literature is one subject area enjoying a strong revival in such programmes. This anthology will focus on major works, which will be included in their entirety or in extensive excerpts. Many of these titles exist in expensive individual editions or are not readily available. Gutjahr's selections will incude works that are not contained in American literature survey anthology texts.

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Review:

"An outstanding collection of hard-to-find popular literature."--Kent Harrelson, Dalton State College "This is a delight--I'm grateful to find Maria Monk, the dramatic version of Uncle Tom's Cabin, and Fowler's Phrenology in the same text."--Byron Nelson, West Virginia University "A great selection--I am especially appreciative of the selections from Weems' Life of Washington, those from Maria Monk, and Timothy Shay Arthur's Ten Nights in a Bar-Room and What I Saw There, all things not available in our library."--Denis R. Fournier, University of Mary, North Dakota

About this edition

• Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0195141407
• ISBN 13: 9780195141405
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 1248
• Editor: Gutjahr