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

by Derrick R. Spires (Editor), Rachel Greenwald Smith (Editor), Christina Roberts (Editor)

"About the Anthology Covering American literature from its pre-contact Indigenous beginnings through the Reconstruction period, the first two volumes of The Broadview Anthology of American Literature represent a substantial reconceiving of the canon of early American literature. Guided by the latest scholarship in American literary studies, and deeply committed to inclusiveness, social responsibility, and rigorous contextualization, the anthology balances representation of widely agreed-upon major works with an emphasis on American literature's diversity, variety, breadth, and connections with the rest of the Americas."--

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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.

• - 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

Author Biography

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 Santa Cruz
Alisha Knight, Washington College
Hsuan L. Hsu, UC Davis
Michael Everton, Simon Fraser University
Christine Bold, University of Guelph