Anthology of American Literature: 2 - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0321916824 ISBN 13: 9780321916822

Publisher: Longman Pub Group, 2012

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Anthology of American Literature is available in two-volume and concise editions. The carefully selected works introduce readers to America's literary heritage, from the colonial times of William Bradford and Anne Bradstreet to the contemporary era of Saul Bellow and Toni Morrison. Volume II includes literary works from the late nineteenth century through the twenty-first century. There is a new section onLiterature of the Twenty-first Century with increased emphasis on current authors and context as well as a separate period introduction and timeline. Period introductions and headnotes have been revised and updated and new selections have been added from a diverse group of writers.

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About the Author

JAMES S. LEONARD received his Ph.D. from Brown University, and is Professor of English (and former English Department chair) at The Citadel. He is the editor ofMaking Mark Twain Work in the Classroom (Duke University Press, 1999), coeditor ofAuthority and Textuality: Current Views of Collaborative Writing (Locust Hill Press, 1994) andSatire or Evasion? Black Perspectives on Huckleberry Finn (Duke University Press, 1992), and coauthor ofThe Fluent Mundo: Wallace Stevens and the Structure of Reality (University of Georgia Press, 1988). He has served as president of the Mark Twain Circle of America (2010—2012), managing editor ofThe Mark Twain Annual (since 2004), and editor of the Mark Twain Circular(1987—2008), and is 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 coeditor of over forty books, including the award-winningWas Huck Black? Mark Twain and African American Voices (1993), From Fact to Fiction: Journalism and Imaginative Writing in America(1988), and Feminist Engagements: Forays into American Literature and Culture(2009), as well as Lighting Out for the Territory (1997), The Oxford Mark Twain(1996), The Historical Guide to Mark Twain (2002), Mark Twain‘s Book of Animals(2009), The Mark Twain Anthology:Great Writers on his Life and Work (2010),Is He Dead? A Comedy in Three Acts by Mark Twain (2003), People of the Book: Thirty Scholars Reflect on Their Jewish Identity(with Jeffrey Rubin-Dorsky) (1996), Listening to Silences: New Essays in Feminist Criticism(with Elaine Hedges)(1994), and Sport of the Gods and Other Essential Writings by Paul Laurence Dunbar(with David Bradley) (2005). She has also published more than eighty articles, essays, or reviews in publications includingAmerican 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 United Kingdom, and throughout the United States. A member of the first class of women to graduate from Yale College, she stayed on at Yale to earn her M.A. in English and her Ph.D. 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 and 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 King

About this edition

• Publisher: Longman Pub Group
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 0321916824
• ISBN 13: 9780321916822
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 2330
• Editor: McMichael George, Leonard James S., Fishkin Shelley Fisher, Bradley David, Nelson Dana D.