The Broadview Anthology of American Literature Concise Volume 1: Beginnings to Reconstruction

Spires, Derrick R.

ISBN 10: 155481619X / ISBN 13: 9781554816194

Published by Broadview Press, 2023

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Synopsis:

About the Anthology

Guided by the latest scholarship in American literary studies, and deeply committed to inclusiveness, social responsibility, and rigorous contextualization, The Broadview Anthology of American Literature balances representation of widely agreed-upon major works with a thoroughgoing reassessment of the canon that emphasizes American literature’s diversity, variety, breadth, and connections with the rest of the Americas. This concise volume represents American literature from its pre-contact Indigenous beginnings through the Reconstruction period, offering a more streamlined alternative to the full two-volume set covering the same timespan.

Highlights of Concise Volume 1: Beginnings to Reconstruction

• • Complete texts of Mary Rowlandson’s captivity narrative; Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave; and Benito Cereno
• • In-depth thematic sections on such topics as “Rebellions and Revolutions,” “Print Culture and Popular Literature,” and “Expansion, Native American Expulsion, and Manifest Destiny”
• • More extensive coverage of Indigenous oral and visual literature and African American oral literature than in competing anthologies
• • Full author sections in the anthology are devoted to authors such as Anne Hutchinson, Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, Briton Hammon, Jane Johnston Schoolcraft, José María Heredia, Black Hawk, and many others
• • Extensive online component offers well over a thousand pages of additional readings and other resources

About the Author:

GENERAL EDITORS

Derrick R. Spires, Cornell University

Rachel Greenwald Smith, Saint Louis University

Christina Roberts, Seattle University

Joseph Rezek, Boston University

Justine S. Murison, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

Laura L. Mielke, University of Kansas

Christopher Looby, UCLA

Rodrigo Lazo, UC Irvine

Alisha Knight, Washington College

Hsuan L. Hsu, UC Davis

Michael Everton, Simon Fraser University

Christine Bold, University of Guelph

Bibliographic Details

Title: The Broadview Anthology of American ...
Publisher: Broadview Press
Publication Date: 2023
Binding: paperback
Condition: New