American Literature in Context to 1865

1. Auflage 2010
ISBN: 978-1-4051-8863-0
Verlag: Wiley

Buch, Englisch, 208 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 322 g

American Literature in Context to 1865 discusses the issues and events that engaged American writers of the period, providing original and useful readings of important literary works that demonstrate how context contributes to meaning - Covers a range of genres including the myths, chants and songs of indigenous cultures, sermons, slave narratives, essays and the novels and poetry to 1865
- Designed to be used alongside the major anthologies of literature from the period
- Equips students with the necessary historical context needed to understand the writings from this period
- Pedagogical features include a detailed bibliography, and a transatlantic timeline, with literary works, and historical events

Autoren/Hrsg.

Castillo, Susan

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur Amerikanische Literatur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface viii

Acknowledgments ix

Timeline of Texts and Historical Events x

The Arrival of the Europeans 1

European Exploration and Settlement: The Anvil and the Golden Fleece 17

The City on a Hill: Alternative Visions 32

From Colonies to Nation 61

The Struggle for Identity in Post-Revolutionary America 80

American Expansion and the Transcendentalists 98

The Originals: Edgar Allan Poe, Herman Melville, Emily Dickinson, and Walt Whitman 124

A House Divided: Abolitionism, the Women’s Movement, and the Civil War 146

Bibliography 171

Index 180

Über Autor(innen)

Susan Castillo is Harriet Beecher Stowe Professor of American Studies at King’s College London and has published extensively on colonial writing of the Early Americas, Native American writing, and on the U.S. South. Her books include The Literatures of Colonial America: An Anthology (Wiley-Blackwell, 2001), A Companion to the Literatures of Colonial America (Wiley-Blackwell, 2005), Colonial Encounters in New World Writing, 1500-1786: Performing America (2005) and American Travel Writing and Empire (2009).