Textbook
American Literature in Context to 1865ISBN: 978-1-4051-8863-0
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204 pages
August 2010, ©2010, Wiley-Blackwell
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Preface viii
Acknowledgments ix
Timeline of Texts and Historical Events x
The Arrival of the Europeans 1
European Exploration and Settlement: The Anvil and the Golden Fleece 17
The City on a Hill: Alternative Visions 32
From Colonies to Nation 61
The Struggle for Identity in Post-Revolutionary America 80
American Expansion and the Transcendentalists 98
The Originals: Edgar Allan Poe, Herman Melville, Emily Dickinson, and Walt Whitman 124
A House Divided: Abolitionism, the Women’s Movement, and the Civil War 146
Bibliography 171
Index 180