Castillo American Literature in Context to 1865

1. Auflage 2010
ISBN: 978-1-4443-9130-5
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 204 Seiten, E-Book

American Literature in Context to 1865 discusses theissues and events that engaged American writers of the period,providing original and useful readings of important literary worksthat demonstrate how context contributes to meaning
* Covers a range of genres including the myths, chants and songsof indigenous cultures, sermons, slave narratives, essays and thenovels and poetry to 1865
* Designed to be used alongside the major anthologies ofliterature from the period
* Equips students with the necessary historical context needed tounderstand the writings from this period
* Pedagogical features include a detailed bibliography, and atransatlantic timeline, with literary works, and historicalevents

Autoren/Hrsg.

Castillo, Susan

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).