American Literature — Volume 1
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Part One: Exploration and Colonization (1492-1700)
To The Reader
David Cusick (Tuscarora) (c.1780-c.1831)
A Tale of the Foundation of the Great Island, Now North America
Thin Leather/Comalk Hawkih (Akimel O’odham, or Pima) (Dates TK). Translated by Edward H. Wood (Akimel O’odham, or Pima) and written down by J. William Lloyd
The Story of the Creation
Context and Response: King James Bible (1611), Genesis 1-3
Christopher Columbus (1451-1506),
Letter to Luis de Santangel Regarding the First Voyage
From Letter to Ferdinand and Isabella Regarding the Fourth Voyage
Gallery 1: Spanish Narratives of Exploration and Colonization
Bartolome de las Casas (1484-1566), From The Devastation of the Indies: Hispaniola
Bernal Díaz del Castillo (1492-1585), From The Truthful History of the Conquest of New Spain
Nahuatl Elegies (1523), Epic Description of the Besieged City” and “Flowers and Songs of Sorrow”
Isabel de Guevara, “Letter to Princess Juana, from Paraguay, 1556”
Catalina de Erauso (1585-1650), From Memoir of a Basque Lieutenant Nun
Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz (1648-1695), “Prologue to the Reader”
John Smith (1580-1631)
From The Generall Historie
Context and Responses: Woodcuts by Theodor de Bry from A Briefe and True Report of the New Found
Land of Virginia
from the Letter of John Rolfe to Sir Thomas Dale, 1614
William Bradford (1590-1657)
From Of Plymouth Plantation
Context and Response: from Thomas Morton, New English Canaan
John Winthrop (1588-1672)
A Modell of Christian Charity
from Journal
Context and Response: from Massachusetts General Court (1637), Examination of Mrs. Anne Hutchinson
at the Court at Newton
Anne Bradstreet (1612-1672)
The Prologue
The Author to her Book
In Honor of that High and Mighty Princess Queen Elizabeth of Happy Memory
Before the Birth of One of Her Children
To My Dear and Loving Husband
In Memory of the Dear Grandchild Elizabeth Bradstreet, Who Deceased August 1665, Being a Year and a
Half Old
In Memory of My Dear Grandchild Anne Bradstreet, Who Deceased June 20, 1669, Being Three Years
and Seven Months Old
Here Follows Some Verses Upon the Burning of Our House
To My Dear Children
Context and Response: Edward Taylor (c. 1642-1729), Huswifery
Gallery 2: Vernacular Writing and the Individual
Richard Frethorne, Letters to his parents, Virginia 1623
Confessions of Praying Indians
Samuel Sewell (1652-1730), from Diary
William Byrd (1674-1744), from Secret Diary
Rebekah Chamblit (ca.1706-1733), The Declaration, Dying Warning and Advice
Eliza Lucas Pinckney (1723–1793), Letters
Mary Rowlandson (1637-1711)
A True History of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson
Context and Response: Ransom letters
Cotton Mather (1663-1728)
from Wonders of the Invisible World
Context and Response: Tituba Trial Transcript
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Part Two: Enlightenment and Revolution (1700-1830)
To the Reader
Sarah Kemble Knight (1666-1727),
Private Journal of a Journey from Boston to New York
Jonathan Edwards (1703-1758)
Personal Narrative
Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God
Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)
The Way to Wealth
Remarks Concerning the Savages of North America
From The Autobiography
Samson Occom (1723-1792)
A Short Narrative of My Life
Petition for the Montaukett People
Context and Response: Selected letters, Eleazar Wheelock
J. Hector St. John de Crevecoeur (1735-1813)
From Letters from an American Farmer
Gallery 3: Declarations of Independence
Signatures on Declaration of Independence
Thomas Paine (1737-1809), From Common Sense and The American Crisis, No. 1
John Adams (1735-1826) and Abigail Adams (1744-1818), “Remember the Ladies”
Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826), The Declaration of Independence
Benjamin Banneker (1731-1806), Letter to Thomas Jefferson
Prince Hall (1735-1807), Petition, January 13, 1777
Phillip Freneau (1752-1832)
On the Emigration to America and Peopling the Western Country
The Indian Burying Ground
On the Religion of Nature
Phillis Wheatley (1753-1784)
On the Death of the Rev. Mr. George Whitefield, 1770
To Maecenas
On Being Brought from Africa to America
To S.M., a Young African Painter, on Seeing His Works
To His Excellency General Washington
To the Right Honorable William, Earl of Dartmouth
To the University of Cambridge in New England
Letter to Samson Occom
Context and Response: Thomas Jefferson, from Query XIV, Notes on the State of Virginia
John Marrant (1755-1791)
A Narrative of the Lord’s Wonderful Dealings with John Marrant, a Black
Washington Irving (1783-1859)
Rip Van Winkle
Context and Response: James Kirke Paulding (1779-1860), from National Literature
David Walker (1785–1830)
From Appeal to the Colored Citizens of the World
Lydia Howard Huntley Sigourney (1791-1865)
The African Mother at Her Daughter’s Grave
The Deaf, Dumb and Blind Girl of the American Asylum at Hartford, Connecticut
To a Shred of Linen
Indian Names
Science and Religion
Niagara
William Cullen Bryant (1794-1878)
Thanatopsis
The Prairies
Gallery 4: Indian Removal and Resistance
Cherokee Alphabet
Handsome Lake (1735-1815), How the White Race Came to America and Why the Gaiwiio Became a Necessity
David Brown (1802? – 1829), from Address of Dewi Brown, A Cherokee Indian
Memorial of the Cherokee Citizens, December 18, 1829
Andrew Jackson, Message to Congress, December 7, 1830
Clark Mills, Statue of Andrew Jackson
William Apess (1798-1839), An Indian’s Looking-Glass for the White Man (1833)
Jane Johnston Schoolcraft (1800-1841), Invocation
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Part Three: Literature in a Divided Nation (1830-1865)
To the Reader
Lydia Maria Child (1802–1880)
Chocorua’s Curse
Slavery’s Pleasant Homes
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)
Nature
The American Scholar
Self-Reliance
Concord Hymn
The Rhodora
Context and Responses: George Ripley (1802-1880) and Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882),
Correspondence
Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864)
Young Goodman Brown
The Minister’s Black Veil
The Birth-Mark
Context and Response: Herman Melville (1819-1891), Hawthorne and His Mosses
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882)
A Psalm of Life
The Village Blacksmith
The Slave’s Dream
The Arsenal at Springfield
The Jewish Cemetery at Newport
John Greenleaf Whittier (1807-1892)
The Hunters of Men
Toussaint L’Ouverture
The Yankee Girl
Lines
The Ship-Builders
Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849)
The Raven
Annabel Lee
The Fall of the House of Usher
Ligeia
The Philosophy of Composition
Margaret Fuller (1810-1850)
The Great Lawsuit. Man versus Men. Woman versus Women.
Context and Response: Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815–1902), The Declaration of Sentiments
Gallery 5: Women, Domesticity, and Publication
Judith Sargent Murray (1751–1820), Desultory Thoughts upon the Utility of Encouraging a Degree of Self-
Complacency, especially in Female Bosoms
Eliza Lee Follen (1787-1860), Women’s Work
Sarah Josepha Hale (1788-1879), Books
Plate from Godey’s Lady’s Book
Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811-1896), Feeling
Sarah Willis Parton (1811-1872), A Chapter on Literary Women
Phoebe Cary (1824-1871), Advice Gratis to Certain Women
Harriet Jacobs (1813-1897)
from Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl: Written by Herself
Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862)
Walking
Civil Disobedience
Life Without Principle
Frederick Douglass (1818-1895)
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave
The Meaning of July Fourth for the Negro
Gallery 6: Slavery and Abolition
John Woolman (1720-1772), from Some Considerations on the Keeping of Negroes
Peter Osborne (fl. 1832), Address
William Lloyd Garrison (1805–1879), To the Public
Vignettes from Poems Written During the Progress of the Abolition Question in the United States (1837)
Fannie Kemble (1809-1893), from Journal of a Residence on a Georgian Plantation
Henry Highland Garnet, from An Address to the Slaves of the United States of America
Advertising poster for Uncle Tom’s Cabin
Herman Melville (1819-1891)
Bartleby the Scrivener
Context and Response: Orestes Brownson (1803-1876), from The Laboring Classes
Walt Whitman (1819-1892)
Song of Myself
Crossing Brooklyn Ferry
When I Heard at the Close of Day
I Saw in Louisiana a Live-Oak Growing
Vigil Strange I Kept on the Field One Night
A Sight in Camp in the Daybreak Gray and Dim
The Wound-Dresser
Reconciliation
When Lilacs Last in the Door-yard Bloom’d
From Democratic Vistas
Frances Ellen Watkins Harper (1825–1911)
The Slave Mother
Eliza Harris
The Slave Auction
The Colored People in America
Learning to Read
Bury Me in a Free Land
Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)
130 (“These are the days when Birds come back—”)
199 (“I’m ‘wife’—I’ve finished that—”)
214 (“I taste a liquor never brewed—”)
216 (“Safe in their Alabaster Chambers—”)
241 (“I like a look of Agony”)
249 (“Wild Nights—Wild Nights!”)
258 (“There’s a certain Slant of light”)
280 (“I felt a Funeral, in my Brain”)
303 (“The Soul selects her own Society—”)
324 (“Some keep the Sabbath going to Church—”)
341 (“After great pain, a formal feeling comes—”)
348 (“I dreaded that first Robin, so”)
441 (“This is my letter to the World”)
448 (“This was a Poet—It is That”)
465 (“I heard a Fly buzz—when I died—”)
501 (“This World is not Conclusion”)
520 (“I started Early—Took my Dog—”)
632 (“The Brain—is wider than the Sky—”)
650 (“Pain—has an Element of Blank—”)
709 (“Publication—is the Auction”)
712 (“Because I could not stop for Death—”)
754 (“My Life had stood—a Loaded Gun—”)
986 (“A narrow Fellow in the Grass”)
1129 (“Tell all the Truth but tell it slant—”)
1545 (“The Bible is an antique Volume—”)
1732 (“My life closed twice before its close;”)
from Letters of Emily Dickinson
April 15, 1862
April 25, 1862
Rebecca Harding Davis (1831-1910)
Life in the Iron-Mills
Chronology
Credits
Index
Map of the United States
New Design. In addition to providing readers with a wealth of new material, the second edition of American Literature has been completely redesigned with the student in mind:
o Marginal space on every page provides a convenient place for readers to annotate the selections by jotting down questions, ideas, and thoughts about the works they encounter.
o A larger trim size and a more open design allow for ease of reading.
o A two-color format better displays key information, contributing to a more effective reading experience.
Several new primary texts, including:
o an additional example of Native American oral tradition, the Akimel O’odham Story of the Creation as told by Thin Leather;
o excerpts from two important colonial texts, John Smith’s Generall Historie and John Winthrop’s Journal;
o Sarah Kemble Knight’s Private Journal, with its sarcastic and secular observations of colonial society;
o One of the first Native American autobiographies written in English, Samson Occom’s A Short Narrative of My Life;
o One of the first conversion narratives (with an embedded captivity narrative) by an African American preacher, John Marrant’s A Narrative of the Lord’s Wonderful Dealings with John Marrant, a Black;
o the historic Appeal to the Colored Citizens of the World by the militant black abolitionist, David Walker;
o two examples of Lydia Maria Child’s magazine reform fiction, Chocorua’s Curse and Slavery’s Pleasant Homes;
o Nathaniel Hawthorne’s much-loved short story, “The Birth-Mark”;
o Edgar Allan Poe’s gothic story, “Ligeia”;
o Henry David Thoreau’s seminal environmentalist essay, “Walking”; and
o additional poems by Anne Bradstreet, Phillip Freneau, Phillis Wheatley, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, and Walt Whitman.
William E. Cain is Mary Jewett Gaiser Professor of English at Wellesley College. Among his many publications is a monograph on American literary and cultural criticism, 1900-1945, in The Cambridge History of American Literature, Vol. 5 (2003). He is a co-editor of the Norton Anthology of Literary Theory and Criticism (2nd ed., 2010), and, with Sylvan Barnet, he has co-authored a number of books on literature and composition. His recent publications include essays on Ralph Ellison, Ernest Hemingway, George Orwell, Shakespeare, Edith Wharton, and the painter Mark Rothko.
Alice McDermott is the author of the forthcoming novel Someone and six previous novels, including After This; Child of My Heart; Charming Billy, winner of the 1998 National Book Award; and At Weddings and Wakes, all published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. That Night, At Weddings and Wakes, and After This were all finalists for the Pulitzer Prize. McDermott lives with her family outside Washington, D.C.
Lance E. Newman is Professor of English and Environmental Studies at Westminster College in Salt Lake City, where he teaches Early American Literature, Environmental Literature, and Creative Writing. He has also worked as a river guide for more than two decades, leading rafting trips in Southeastern Utah and in Grand Canyon. He is the author of The Grand Canyon Reader (University of California Press, 2011) and Our Common Dwelling: Henry Thoreau, Transcendentalism, and the Class Politics of Nature (Palgrave, 2005). With Joel Pace and Chris Keonig-Woodyard, he co-edited Transatlantic Romanticism: An Anthology of British, American, and Canadian Literature, 1767-1867 (Longman, 2006). He co-produced the documentary film Canyonlands: Edward Abbey and the Great American Desert (2011) with Roderick Coover. Newman’s poems have appeared in many print and web magazines, and he is the author of two poetry chapbooks, Come Kanab (Dusi-e/chaps Kollectiv, 2007) and 3by3by3 (Beard of Bees, 2010), both available free on the Web.
Hilary E. Wyss is Hargis Professor of American Literature at Auburn University, where she teaches courses in early American literature, American studies, and Native American studies. She is the author of over a dozen articles and book chapters as well as three books, including English Letters and Indian Literacies: Reading, Writing, and New England Missionary Schools, 1750-1830 (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2012); Early Native Literacies in New England: a Documentary and Critical Anthology (University of Massachusetts Press, 2008, co-edited with Kristina Bross); and Writing Indians: Literacy, Christianity, and Native Community in Early America (University of Massachusetts Press, 2000). She has won teaching awards at Auburn University as well as national research grants to support her work. She has served on the editorial board of the journal Early American Literature and was most recently the President of the Society of Early Americanists.
· Context and Responses. Brief excerpts from related literary texts and historical documents have been added after selected primary texts. These materials allow students to engage in historically-informed close reading. Specific topics include:
o a selection from the King James version of Genesis provided for comparison with the Native American origin stories
o an excerpt from New English Canaan by the Anglican buccaneer, Thomas Morton, now supplements William Bradford’s Of Plymouth Plantation
o a sample of the correspondence between Samson Occom and his patron, Eleazar Wheelock, follows Occom’s Narrative
o Thomas Jefferson’s disparaging remarks from Notes on the State of Virginia illustrate the reception of Phillis Wheatley’s poems
o Lydia Sigourney’s angry poem, “Indian Names,” provides a counterpoint to William Cullen Bryant’s elegy, “The Prairies”
o The Declaration of Sentiments issued by the Seneca Falls Women’s Rights Convention accompanies Margaret Fuller’s essay, “The Great Lawsuit”
o Frederick Douglass’s Narrative is followed by “The Hunters of Men” by John Greenleaf Whittier, whom Douglass called, “the slave’s poet”
o an excerpt of Orestes Brownson’s manifesto, The Laboring Classes, complements Herman Melville’s “Bartleby, the Scrivener”
· Galleries. Six thematic clusters of excerpts from documents illustrate key trends in American social and literary history:
o Spanish narratives of exploration and colonization
o Vernacular Writing and the Individual
o Declarations of Independence
o Indian Removal and Resistance
o Writing, Domesticity, and Publication
o Slavery and Abolition
· Images. A rich selection of woodcuts, engravings, sketches, original title pages and frontispieces, and daguerreotypes are keyed to individual texts and provide a visual frame of reference for readers.
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| Subjects | Literature, english, american literature, higher education, Language Arts / Literacy, MED003000 |
