The American Tradition in Literature
George B. Perkins; Editor-Barbara Perkins
Language: English
Published by McGraw-Hill College, 1994
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- Title
- The American Tradition in Literature
- Author
- George B. Perkins; Editor-Barbara Perkins
- Publisher
- McGraw-Hill College
- Publication year
- 1994
- Condition
- Good
- Binding
- paperback
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0070493685
- ISBN 13
- 9780070493681
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Representation of women and ethnic writers has been greatly expanded in all volumes.
A new supplement for adopters, 'Teaching Resources for The American Tradition in Literature' provides creative suggestions for teaching, a variety of class handouts, historical timelines, annotated bibliographies for all writers, thematic syllabi, video suggestions, tips on using the World Wide Web, and a large bank of writing assignments and exam questions.
The colored plates introduced in the eighth edition have been augmented with black and white reproductions interspersed throughout the anthology.
Representation of early American diversity has been expanded with descriptions of Native American life and of a famous quarrel with the Puritans taken from Thomas Morton's New English Canaan; with selections on politics and women's issues from the letters of John and Abigail Adams; with chapters on the author's experience as an American slave from The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano; and with a new selection from Harriet Jacob's Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl.
In response to increased interest in New England witchcraft, selections from Cotton Mather's Wonders of the Invisible World have been added to supplement the overview of the trials previously included in his 'Life of His Excellency Sir William Phips' from Magnalia Christi Americana.
Selections from Catherine Maria Sedgwick's Hope Leslie display a fine woman novelist wrestling with questions of Indian and European confrontation at the time of the Pequot War.
The Southwestern humorists Augustus Baldwin Longstreet, T. B. Thorpe, and George Washington Harris have been introduced as early exemplars of local color and American colloquial humor.
Margaret Fuller's 'Woman in the Nineteenth Century' has been introduced as an example of early feminist thought, and Rebecca Harding Davis's 'Life in the Iron Mills' as a solid contribution to early American realism.
The return of Melville's 'Benito Cereno' reintroduces a literary work and cultural document of considerable relevance.
Literary merit remains the criterion by which readings are selected.
A flexible organization, with Walt Whitman fully represented in both Volume I and Volume II, allows instructors to tailor the material to the design of their courses.
Period and author introductions make students aware of the connections between literature and social and intellectual history, and between literature and biography.
Numerous annotations accompany the selections to facilitate understanding, but interpretive footnotes are avoided, ensuring an unbiased presentation that gives students the freedom to develop their own critical perspectives.
A full-color art portfolio in each volume enriches students' understanding of the literature and the culture in which it was produced.
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