The Broadview Anthology of American Literature Volumes A & B: Beginnings to Reconstruction (The Broadview Anthology of American Literature, A-B)

Covering American literature from its pre-contact Indigenous beginnings through the Reconstruction period, the first two volumes of The Broadview Anthology of American Literaturerepresent a substantial reconceiving of the canon of early American literature. Guided by the latest scholarship in American literary studies, and deeply committed to inclusiveness, social responsibility, and rigorous contextualization, the anthology balances representation of widely agreed-upon major works with an emphasis on American literature's diversity, variety, breadth, and connections with the rest of the Americas. Highlights of the two-volume set include the complete texts of Mary Rowlandson's captivity narrative, The Coquette, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass; and Benito Cereno; in-depth, themed sections on such topics as Slavery and Resistance, Print Culture and Popular Literature, Expansion, Native American Expulsion, and Manifest Destiny, and Gender and Sexuality; and broader and more extensive coverage of Indigenous oral and visual literature and African American oral literature than in competing anthologies. In addition to more frequently anthologized figures, full author sections in the anthology are devoted to authors such as Anne Hutchinson, Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, Briton Hammon, Jane Johnston Schoolcraft, Jose Maria Heredia, and Black Hawk.

• | Author: Derrick Spires, Christina Roberts, Joe Rezek, Justine Murison, Laura Mielke, Christopher Looby, Rodrigo Lazo, Alisha Knight, Hsuan Hsu, Rachel Greenwald Smith, Michael Everton, Christine Bold
• | Publisher: Broadview Press
• | Publication Date: Jun 17, 2022
• | Number of Pages: 2350 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 1039301576
• | ISBN-13: 9781039301573