For courses in American Literary Survey.

This two-volume series represents America's literary heritage from colonial times through the American renaissance to the contemporary era of post-modernism.  Volume I offers early contextual selections from Christopher Columbus and Gaspar Perez de Villagra, as well as an excerpt from the Iroquois League's Constitution of the Five Nations, and ends with an extensive selection of the poetry of Emily Dickinson and Walt Whitman. This anthology is best known for its useful pedagogy, including extensive and straightforward headnotes and introductions, as well as its balanced approach to editorial selection process.

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We offer select Penguin Putnam titles at a substantial discount to your students when you request a special package of one or more Penguin titles with this text.  Among the many American Literature titles available from Penguin Putnam are:

·    Stephen Crane, The Red Badge of Courage

·    Frederick Douglass, Narrative of Frederick Douglass

·    Nathaniel Hawthorne,The Scarlet Letter

·    James Fennimore Cooper, The Last of the Mohicans

·    Washington Irving,The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Other Stories