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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.