Susan Castillo

American Literature in Context to 1865 (eBook, PDF)

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

American Literature in Context to 1865 discusses the issues and events that engaged American writers of the period, providing original and useful readings of important literary works that demonstrate how context contributes to meaning * Covers a range of genres including the myths, chants and songs of indigenous cultures, sermons, slave narratives, essays and the novels and poetry to 1865 * Designed to be used alongside the major anthologies of literature from the period * Equips students with the necessary historical context needed to understand the writings from this period * Pedagogical features include a detailed bibliography, and a transatlantic timeline, with literary works, and historical events

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
• Seitenzahl: 204
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. Mai 2010
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781444323580
• Artikelnr.: 38308052

Autorenporträt

Susan Castillo is Harriet Beecher Stowe Professor of American Studies at King's College London and has published extensively on colonial writing of the Early Americas, Native American writing, and on the U.S. South. Her books include The Literatures of Colonial America: An Anthology (Wiley-Blackwell, 2001), A Companion to the Literatures of Colonial America (Wiley-Blackwell, 2005), Colonial Encounters in New World Writing, 1500-1786: Performing America (2005) and American Travel Writing and Empire (2009).

Inhaltsangabe

Preface.

Acknowledgments.

Timeline of Texts and Historical Events.

The Arrival of the Europeans.

European Exploration and Settlement: The Anvil and the GoldenFleece.

The City on a Hill: Alternative Visions.

From Colonies to Nation.

American Expansion and the Transcendentalists.

The Struggle for Identity in Post-Revolutionary America.

The Originals: Edgar Allan Poe, Herman Melville, EmilyDickinson, and Walt Whitman.

A House Divided: Abolitionism, the Women's Movement, andthe Civil War.

Bibliography.

Index.

Rezensionen

"Joining numerous other volumes in the "Literature in Context"series, this is an excellent starting point for students ofAmerican literature. Summing Up: Recommended. Lower-andupper-division undergraduates; general readers." (Choice, 1 August2011)

"In the end this book is an innovative soul within a traditionalbody. It presents the historical context of American writingfrom a variety of perspectives within a period structure relevantto many current college courses." (NBOL-19, October2010)