{"product_id":"american-literature-in-context-to-1865-isbn-9781405188630","title":"American Literature in Context to 1865","description":"\u003ci\u003eAmerican Literature in Context to 1865\u003c\/i\u003e discusses the issues and events that engaged American writers of the period, providing original and useful readings of important literary works that demonstrate how context contributes to meaning  \u003cul type=\"disc\"\u003e \u003cli\u003eCovers a range of genres including the myths, chants and songs of indigenous cultures, sermons, slave narratives, essays and the novels and poetry to 1865\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eDesigned to be used alongside the major anthologies of literature from the period\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eEquips students with the necessary historical context needed to understand the writings from this period\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003ePedagogical features include a detailed bibliography, and a transatlantic timeline, with literary works, and historical events\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e \u003cp\u003ePreface viii\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAcknowledgments ix\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTimeline of Texts and Historical Events x\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Arrival of the Europeans 1\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEuropean Exploration and Settlement: The Anvil and the Golden Fleece 17\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe City on a Hill: Alternative Visions 32\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFrom Colonies to Nation 61\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Struggle for Identity in Post-Revolutionary America 80\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAmerican Expansion and the Transcendentalists 98\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Originals: Edgar Allan Poe, Herman Melville, Emily Dickinson, and Walt Whitman 124\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eA House Divided: Abolitionism, the Women’s Movement, and the Civil War 146\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBibliography 171\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex 180\u003c\/p\u003e  \"Joining numerous other volumes in the \"Literature in Context\" series, this is an excellent starting point for students of American literature. Summing Up: Recommended. Lower-and upper-division undergraduates; general readers.\" (Choice, 1 August 2011)  \u003cp\u003e\"The book includes a transatlantic timeline featuring key literary works and historical events, in addition to suggestions for further reading and a few b\u0026amp;w art illustrations.\" (Booknews, 1 April 2011)\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"In the end this book is an innovative soul within a traditional body.  It presents the historical context of American writing from a variety of perspectives within a period structure relevant to many current college courses.\" \u003ci\u003e(NBOL-19\u003c\/i\u003e, October 2010)\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cb\u003eSusan Castillo\u003c\/b\u003e is Harriet Beecher Stowe Professor of American Studies at King’s College London and has published extensively on colonial writing of the Early Americas, Native American writing, and on the U.S. South. Her books include \u003ci\u003eThe Literatures of Colonial America: An Anthology\u003c\/i\u003e (Wiley-Blackwell, 2001), \u003ci\u003eA Companion to the Literatures of Colonial America\u003c\/i\u003e (Wiley-Blackwell, 2005), \u003ci\u003eColonial Encounters in New World Writing, 1500-1786: Performing America\u003c\/i\u003e (2005) and \u003ci\u003eAmerican Travel Writing and Empire\u003c\/i\u003e (2009).    \u003ci\u003eAmerican Literature in Context to 1865\u003c\/i\u003e is the perfect companion for readers who want to familiarize themselves with the historical events and literary movements that shaped American literature from the pre-Columbian period to the end of the Civil War.  \u003cp\u003eSituating literary texts in their historical context, from indigenous texts to sermons, slave narratives, political tracts, novels, essays on abolition and women’s rights, stories of the early frontier to poetry, Susan Castillo conveys the splendid untidiness and exuberant vitality of American literature, and the ways in which many different voices with different agendas have clamored to be heard.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIncludes a transatlantic timeline, featuring key literary works and historical events, as well as suggestions for further reading.  \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Wiley-Blackwell","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47988719550693,"sku":"NP9781405188630","price":21.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781405188630.jpg?v=1761781322","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/american-literature-in-context-to-1865-isbn-9781405188630","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}