The Broadview Anthology of American Literature Volume B: 1820 to Reconstruction - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1554814650 ISBN 13: 9781554814657

Publisher: Broadview Press Ltd, 2022

Synopsis

About the Anthology

Covering American literature from its pre-contact Indigenous beginnings through the Reconstruction period, the first two volumes of The Broadview Anthology of American Literature represent a substantial reconceiving of the canon of early American literature. Guided by the latest scholarship in American literary studies, and deeply committed to inclusiveness, social responsibility, and rigorous contextualization, the anthology balances representation of widely agreed-upon major works with an emphasis on American literature’s diversity, variety, breadth, and connections with the rest of the Americas.

Volume A, which covers Beginnings to 1820, is available separately or packaged together with Volume B. Volumes covering Reconstruction to the Present will be published in 2024.

Highlights of Volume B: 1820 to Reconstruction

• • Complete texts of Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave; and Benito Cereno
• • In-depth, Contexts sections on such topics as “Nature and the Environment,” “Expansion, Native American Expulsion, and Manifest Destiny,” “Gender and Sexuality,” and “Oratory”
• • Broader and more extensive coverage of African American oral literature than in competing anthologies
• • Full author sections in the anthology are devoted to authors such as George Moses Horton, Jane Johnston Schoolcraft, José Maria Heredia, Black Hawk, and many others

About this title

About the Author

GENERAL EDITORS

Derrick Spires, Cornell University
Christina Roberts, Seattle University
Joe Rezek, Boston University
Justine Murison, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Laura Mielke, University of Kansas
Christopher Looby, UCLA
Rodrigo Lazo, UC Irvine
Alisha Knight, Washington College
Hsuan Hsu, UC Davis
Rachel Greenwald Smith, Saint Louis University
Michael Everton, Simon Fraser University
Christine Bold, University of Guelph

From the Back Cover

About the Anthology

Covering American literature from its pre-contact Indigenous beginnings through the Reconstruction period, the first two volumes of The Broadview Anthology of American Literature represent a substantial reconceiving of the canon of early American literature. Guided by the latest scholarship in American literary studies, and deeply committed to inclusiveness, social responsibility, and rigorous contextualization, the anthology balances representation of widely agreed-upon major works with an emphasis on American literature's diversity, variety, breadth, and connections with the rest of the Americas.

Volume A, which covers Beginnings to 1820, is available separately or packaged together with Volume B; a concise volume covering Beginnings to Reconstruction is also available. A volume covering Reconstruction to the Present is in development.

Highlights of Volume B: 1820 to Reconstruction

• - Complete texts of Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave; and Benito Cereno
• - In-depth, Contexts sections on such topics as "Nature and the Environment," "Expansion, Native American Expulsion, and Manifest Destiny," "Gender and Sexuality," and "Oratory"
• - Broader and more extensive coverage of African American oral literature than in competing anthologies
• - Full author sections in the anthology are devoted to authors such as George Moses Horton, Jane Johnston Schoolcraft, José Maria Heredia, Black Hawk, and many others
• - Extensive online component offers well over a thousand pages of additional readings and other resources

Edition details

• Publisher: Broadview Press Ltd
• Publication date: 2022
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1554814650
• ISBN 13: 9781554814657
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 1508
• Editor: Spires Derrick, Roberts Christina, Rezek Joe, Murison Justine, Mielke Laura, Looby Christopher, Lazo Rodrigo, Knight Alisha, Hsu Hsuan, Smith Rachel Greenwald, Everton Michael, Bold Christine