Title: Canons by consensus : critical trends and American literature anthologies /
Authors: Csicsila, Joseph, 1968-
Publisher: University of Alabama Press,
Year: 2004
Subjects: American literature History and criticism Theory, etc.; Literature publishing United States.; Criticism United States; Anthologies Editing; Canon (Literature)
Contents: The Historical Context -- Early- and Mid-Nineteenth-Century Prose: Irving, Cooper, Poe, Hawthorne, Melville -- Nineteenth-Century Poetry: Whitman, Dickinson, Alice Cary, Phoebe Cary, Larcom, Thaxter, Lanier, Tabb -- PostCivil War Prose: Twain, Harte, Howells, James -- Latter-Nineteenth-Century Prose: Stowe, Jewett, Freeman, Chopin -- The African American Heritage: Equiano, Jacobs, Douglass, Dunbar, Chesnutt, Harper -- Early-Twentieth-Century Women Writers: Wharton, Cather, Glasgow.