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Presents a survey of American literature from its sixteenth-century origins onwards, which features the work of over 260 writers. This edition pays attention to cultural contexts through the inclusion of 45 colour plates, 12 contextual clusters, maps and timelines, and section introductions, headnotes, footnotes and bibliographies.
Now available in a portable multi-volume format, The Norton Anthology of American Literature is the classic survey of American literature from its sixteenth-century origins to its flourishing present. The Sixth Edition offers the work of 242 writers30 newly includedrepresenting the extraordinary wealth and diversity of American literature. Among the many major works included in their entirety are Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter, Thoreau's Walden, Douglass's Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave, Clemens's Huckleberry Finn, Chopin's The Awakening, Faulkner's As I Lay Dying, Williams's A Streetcar Named Desire, Larsen's Quicksand, Ginsberg's "Howl," Mamet's Glengarry Glen Ross, and Parks's The America Play. Informative introductions, headnotes, footnotes, and bibliographies accompany the texts. Package 1, "Literature to 1865," contains two slipcased volumes: "Literature to 1820" (Volume A) and "1820-1865" (Volume B).
Under Nina Baym's direction, the editors have considered afresh each selection and all the apparatus to make the anthology an even better teaching tool.
The Norton Anthology of American Literature is the classic survey of American literature from its sixteenth-century origins to the present. This volume—Volume C, the third out of five—covers American literature from 1820 to 1865.
Presents hundreds of selections of American literature spanning the fifteenth through the twentieth centuries; draws from the two-volume parent edition of the Norton anthology.
Last volume (E) of the anthology of the American literature from its sixteenth-century origins to the present.
A selection of American literature drawn from throughout history, beginning in 1820 and continuing through 1865. Includes a time line, color plates, and bibliographies.
This 8th edition of 'The Norton Anthology of American Literature' presents complete major works, balancing classic and newly emergent works.
This 8th edition of 'The Norton Anthology of American Literature' presents complete major works, balancing classic and newly emergent works.
This is vol. D: 1914-1945, of 'The Norton Anthology of American Literature' 8th edition. The two world wars (World War I, 1914-1918, and World War II, 1939-1945) bracket a period during which the United States became a fully modern nation. Both wars mobilized the country's industries and technologies, spurred their development, and uprooted citizens. The literature of this period is a reflection of that
