American Literature: Tradition and Innovation (Paperback 2-Volume Set)
American Literature: Tradition and Innovation (Paperback 2-Volume Set)
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GOOD: Both volumes show page yellowing due to age as expected from this age book. There is minimal marking in the index which was used by the previous owner to show which writings were read in the books.
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These volumes were used in a college level American Literature class. Writings range from the late 1500s/early 1600s to 1964. Covering a wide group of authors including John Smith, Thomas Jefferson, Henry David Thoreau, Carl Sandburg and Ralph Ellison these volumes provide a well-rounded view into American authors throughout our history. Note that some writings are excerpts.
Table of Contents for Volume 1
Four Early Travelers and Observers—Authors include:
- John Smith
- George Alsop
- William Bradford
- John Winthrop
Later Diarists, Travelers and Observers—Authors include:
- Samuel Sewall
- Sarah Kemble Knight
- William Bird II
- John Woolman
- Michel-Guillaume St. Jean de Crèvecoeur
- William Bartram
Seventeenth— and Early Eighteenth—Century Poets—Authors include:
- Roger Williams
- Anne Bradstreet
- Michael Wigglesworth
- Edward Taylor
- Ebenezer Cook
A Gathering of Seventeenth-Century Poetry—Authors include:
- John Cotton of 'Queens Creek'
- John James
- John Danforth
- John Josselyn
- Nathaniel Ward
- Richard Steere
- John Saffin
- John Fiske
Puritian Prose Writers—Authors include:
- Roger Williams
- Michael Wigglesworth
- Cotton Mather
- Jonathan Edwards
Eighteenth—Century Prose Writers and Poets—Authors include:
- Benjamin Franklin
- Thomas Paine
- Thomas Jefferson
- Philip Freneau
- John Trumbull
- Joel Barlow
- Hugh Henry Brackenridge
- Charles Brockden Brown
A Gathering of Eighteenth—Century Poems—Authors include:
- Richard Lewis
- William Dawson
- Mather Byles
- Nathaniel Ames
- Thomas Evans
- Phillis Wheatley
- Francis Hopkinson
- Anonymous
Pioneers of Romanticism—Authors include:
- Washington Irving
- James Fenimore Cooper
- William Cullen Bryant
Romanticists—Authors include:
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Henry David Thoreau
- Edgar Allen Poe
- Nathaniel Hawthorne
- Henry Melville
A Gathering of Southwestern Humorists—Authors include:
- Augustus B. Longstreet
- T. B. Thorpe
- Johnson J. Hooper
- George Washington Harris
Traditionalists—Authors include:
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
- John Greenleaf Whittier
- Oliver Wendell Holmes
- James Russell Lowell
- Frederick Goddard Tuckerman
- Sidney Lanier
Table of Contents for Volume 2
Pioneers of the Modern—Authors include:
- Walt Whitman
- Emily Dickinson
Realists, Romancers and Naturalists—Authors include:
- Bret Harte
- William Dean Howells
- George Washington Cable
- Mark Twain
- Sarah Orne Jewett
- Kate Chopin
- Mary E. W. Freeman
- Charles W. Chesnutt
- Henry James
- Hamlin Garland
- Frank Norris
- Stephen Crane
Tradition and Modernity—Authors include:
- Henry Adams
- Edwin Arlington Robinson
- William Vaughn Moody
- Robert Frost
- Edith Warton
- Willa Cather
The Revolution in the Arts—Authors include:
- Ezra Pound
- T.S.Elliot
- Theodore Dreiser
- Gertrude Stein
- Sherwood Anderson
Fiction Between the Wars—Authors include:
- Ernest Hemingway
- F. Scott Fitzgerald
- Jean Toomer
- William Faulkner
- Katherine Ann Porter
- Thomas Wolfe
- John Dos Passos
- John Steinbeck
- Nathaniel West
- Robert Penn Warren
- Richard Wright
The New Poetry—Authors include:
- Wallace Stevens
- William Carlos Williams
- Marianne Moore
- Archibald MacLeish
- E. E. Cummings
- Robinson Jeffers
- Hart Crane
- Carl Sandburg
- Edgar Lee Masters
- Vachel Lindsay
- John Crowe Ransom
Humor and Satire—Authors include:
- Ring Lardner
- H. L. Mencken
- Langston Hughes
- James Thurber
Middle Generation Poets—Authors include:
- Theodore Roethke
- Richard Eberhart
- Karl Shapiro
- Robert Lowell
Fiction of the Postwar Years—Authors include:
- Norman Mailer
- Ralph Ellison
- Bernard Malamud
- Saul Bellow
- Flannery O'Connor
- James Baldwin
- Joseph Heller
Contemporary Poetry—Authors include:
- Denise Levertov
- Allen Ginsberg
- Robert Creeley
- Donald Justice
- James Dickey
- Galway Kinnell
- John Ashbery
- Kenneth Koch
- Sylvia Plath
- LeRoi Jones
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PUBLISHER: D.C. Heath and Company
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