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The classic survey of American literature from its
sixteenth-century origins to its flourishing present.
This anthology offers the work of over 260 writers—34 newly
included—representing the extraordinary wealth and diversity of
American literature. Among the 36 major works included in their
entirety are Franklin's Autobiography; Hawthorne's The Scarlet
Letter; Thoreau's Walden; Douglass's Narrative of the Life of
Frederick Douglass, An American Slave; Twain's Adventures of
Huckleberry Finn; Chopin's The Awakening; Cather's My Antonia;
Faulkner's As I Lay Dying; Williams's A Streetcar Named Desire;
Larsen's Quicksand; Ginsberg's "Howl"; and Mamet's Glengarry, Glen
Ross. The Seventh Edition pays increased attention to cultural
contexts through the inclusion of 45 color plates, 12 contextual
clusters, updated maps and timelines, and through extensively
revised section introductions, headnotes, footnotes, and
bibliographies.
内容简介
The classic survey of American literature from its
sixteenth-century origins to its flourishing present.
This anthology offers the work of over 260 writers—34 newly
included—representing the extraordinary wealth and diversity of
American literature. Among the 36 major works included in their
entirety are Franklin's Autobiography; Hawthorne's The Scarlet
Letter; Thoreau's Walden; Douglass's Narrative of the Life of
Frederick Douglass, An American Slave; Twain's Adventures of
Huckleberry Finn; Chopin's The Awakening; Cather's My Antonia;
Faulkner's As I Lay Dying; Williams's A Streetcar Named Desire;
Larsen's Quicksand; Ginsberg's "Howl"; and Mamet's Glengarry, Glen
Ross. The Seventh Edition pays increased attention to cultural
contexts through the inclusion of 45 color plates, 12 contextual
clusters, updated maps and timelines, and through extensively
revised section introductions, headnotes, footnotes, and
bibliographies.
作者简介
Nina Baym (General Editor), Ph.D. Harvard, is Swanlund Endowed
Chair and Center for Advanced Study Professor Emerita of English,
and Jubilee Professor of Liberal Arts and Sciences at The
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She is author of The
Shape of Hawthorne's Career; Woman's Fiction: A Guide to Novels by
and About Women in America; Novels, Readers, and Reviewers:
Responses to Fiction in Antebellum America; American Women Writers
and the Work of History, 1790-1860; and American Women of Letters
and the Nineteenth-Century Sciences. Some of her essays are
collected in Feminism and American Literary History; she has also
edited and introduced many reissues of work by earlier American
women writers, from Judith Sargent Murray through Kate Chopin. In
2000 she received the MLA's Hubbell medal for lifetime achievement
in American literary studies.