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Norton Anthology of American LI 7TH Edition Vola

by Nina Baym

Norton Anthology of American LI 7TH Edition Vola Cover

ISBN13: 9780393927399
ISBN10: 0393927393
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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.

About the Author

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.

Product Details

ISBN:
9780393927399
Subtitle:
Beginnings to 1820
Author:
Baym, Nina
Editor:
Gura, Philip F.
Editor:
Franklin, Wayne
Publisher:
W. W. Norton & Company
Subject:
General
Subject:
United states
Subject:
American literature
Subject:
American - General
Series:
Norton Anthology of American Literature
Series Volume:
0A
Publication Date:
April 2007
Binding:
Paperback
Grade Level:
College/higher education:
Language:
English
Illustrations:
Y
Pages:
984
Dimensions:
9 x 6 in

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