American literature in context to 1865
By: Susan Castillo.
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Malden, MA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 185
ISBN-13: 9781405188647; 9781405188630
Subjects: American literature -- History and criticism; National characteristics, American, in literature; Literature and history -- United States; American literature
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The arrival of the Europeans; title: European exploration and settlement: The anvil and the golden fleece; title: The city on a hill. Alternative visions; title: From colonies to nation; title: The struggle for identity in post-revolutionary America; title: American expansion. The transcendentalists; title: The originals: Herman Melville, Edgar Allan Poe, Emily Dickinson, and Walt Whitman; title: A house divided: abolitionism, the women's movement, and The civil war.