Beschreibung:
An accessible introduction to the richness and variety of American Literature up to 1880. This includes the early work of James and Twain, as well as Thoreau, Emily Dickinson, Poe, Cooper, Melville and Irving.
1. The Problem of American Literature 2. A ProtoAmerican Literature, 800BC to 1611 3. From Settlement to Revolution, 1607-1783 4. The New Republic, 1776-1826 5. Grown & Identity, 1812-1865 6. Prospects for the Great Republic, 1865-1880 Chronology Biographies Bibliography