Native American Literature
Have students discuss their dreams (be careful not to push). List the good dremas and the bad dreams on the chalkboard. As a follow-up project, have students make mini-dreamcatchers from a folded piece of paper. Trace a circle on top of a folded ... [... more]
Bella Online |
The Norton Anthology of African American Literature
 Welcomed on publication as "brilliant, definitive, and a joy to teach from," (Russ Castronovo, University of Miami) The Norton Anthology of African American Literature was adopted at more than 1,275 colleges and universities worldwide. Now, the ... [... more]
$59.95
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Richard Francis
Richard Francis is a biographer, historian of American culture, and novelist. He was an American Studies Research Fellow at Harvard, and taught American literature at the universities of Missouri and Manchester. He ... [... more]
Harper Collins |
Neal Pollack
Neal Pollack is the author of the cult classic The Neal Pollack Anthology of American Literature. He writes for numerous underground publications such as Vanity Fair and The New York Times. His rock credentials are ... [... more]
Harper Collins |
Herman Melville
First published in 1851, Melville's masterpiece is, in Elizabeth Hardwick's words, "the greatest novel in American literature." The saga of Captain Ahab and his monomaniacal pursuit of the white whale remains a ... [... more]
Random House |
Kathryn Harrison
A stark and allegorical tale of adultery, guilt, and social repression in Puritan New England, The Scarlet Letter is a foundational work of American literature. Nathaniel Hawthorne's exploration of the dichotomy ... [... more]
Random House |
Michael Lennon
A towering figure in American literature, Norman Mailer has in recent years reached a new level of accessibility and power. His last novel, The Castle in the Forest, revealed fascinating ideas about faith and the nature of good and evil. Now ... [... more]
Random House |
The Oxford Companion to African American Literature
Here indeed is the pantheon of African American writers--Phillis Wheatley and Sojourner Truth, Frederick Douglass and W. E. B. Du Bois, Gwendolyn Brooks and Zora Neale Hurston, Langston Hughes and Countee Cullen, James Baldwin and Ralph Ellison, Toni ... [... more]
$65.00
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Race, Citizenship, and Law in American Literature ...
In this broad ranging and powerful study, Gregg Crane examines the interaction between civic identity, race and justice in American law and literature. Crane recounts the efforts of literary and legal figures to bring the nation's law into line with the ... [... more]
$85.00
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The Cambridge History of Latin American Literature
Volume 2 provides coverage of all genres from the end of the nineteenth century up to García Márquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude and beyond to 1990, thus including discussion of Spanish American literature's best-known works. The novel, ... [... more]
$180.00
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The Cambridge History of American Literature, Vol. 2: ...
The narratives in this volume make for a four-fold perspective on literature: social, cultural, intellectual, and aesthetic; they constitute a basic reassessment of American prose-writing between 1820 and 1865. These narratives place the American ... [... more]
$165.00
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The Cambridge History of American Literature: Volume 1, ...
The Cambridge History of American Literature addresses the spectrum of new and established directions in American writing. An interdisciplinary distillation of American literary history, it weds the voice of traditional criticism with the diversity of ... [... more]
$165.00
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