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| Genre/Form: | Literary collections |
|---|---|
| Material Type: | Internet resource |
| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
George B Perkins; Barbara Perkins |
| ISBN: | 9780073384894 0073384895 |
| OCLC Number: | 226356700 |
| Description: | xxxiv, 2310 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, some color ; 23 cm |
| Contents: | Exploration and the colonies 1492-1791 -- Native literature: the oral tradition -- Christopher Columbus (1451-1506) -- Giovanni da Verrazzano (1485?-1528) -- Alva Núñez Cabeza de Vaca (CA. 1490-CA. 1157) -- Richard Hakluyt (1552-1616) -- Samuel de Champlain (c. 1567-1635) -- John Smith (1580-1631) -- William Bradford (1590-1657) -- John Winthrop (1588-1657) -- Puritanism -- Anne Bradstreet (1612?-1672) -- Mary Rowlandson (1636?-1711) -- Edward Taylor (1642?-1729) -- Crosscurrents: puritans, indians, and witchcraft -- Cotton Mather (1663-1728) -- Mary Towne Easty (1634?-1692) -- Samuel Sewall (1652-1730) -- Cotton Mather (1663-1728) -- The South and the middle colonies -- William Byrd (1674-1744) -- John Woolman (1720-1772) -- St. Jean de Crèvecœur (1735-1813) -- Reason and revolution 1725-1800 -- Jonathan Edwards (1703-1758) -- Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) -- Thomas Paine (1737-1809) -- Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826) -- Olaudah Equiano (1745?-1797?) -- Phillis Wheatley (1753?-1784) -- Phillip Freneau (1752-1932) -- Crosscurrents: nature's plenty in the New World -- Francis Higginson (1586-1630) -- William Bartram (1739-1832) -- John James Audubon (1785-1851) -- Franics Parkman (1823-1893) -- The romantic temper -- Washington Irving (1783-1859) -- James Fenimore Cooper (1789-1851) -- William Cullen Bryant (1794-1878) -- Red Jacket (C. 1752-1830). Crosscurrents: Romanticism and the American Indian -- Jane Johnston Schoolcraft [Bamewawagezhikaquay] (1800-1842) -- William Gilmore Simms (1806-1870) -- Lydia Howard Huntley Sigourney (1791-1865) -- Romanticism at mid-century -- Edgar Allen Poe (1809-1849) -- Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864) -- Herman Melville (1819-1891) -- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1801-1882) -- Margaret Fuller (1810-1850) -- Crosscurrents: transcendentalism, women, and social ideals -- Elizabeth Peabody (1804-1894) -- Charles Dickens (1812-1870) -- Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815-1902) -- Sojourner Truth (CA. 1797-1883) -- Fanny Fern (1811-1872) -- Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) -- The humanitarian sensibility and the inevitable conflict 1800-1870 -- Crosscurrents: slavery, the slave trade, and the Civil War -- Briton Hammon (fl. 1760) -- William Cushing (1732-1792) -- Alexander Falconbridge (1760-1792) -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882) -- Lydia Maria Child (1802-1880) -- Sarah Morgan (1842-1909) -- Sarah Morgan Bryan Piatt (1836-1919) -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882) -- John Greenleaf Whittier (1807-1892) -- Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809-1894) -- Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865) -- Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811-1896) -- Harriet Jacobs (1813-1897) -- Frederick Douglass (1817?-1895). Crosscurrents: faith and crisis -- Herman Melville (1819-1891) -- Sarah Morgan Bryan Piatt (1836-1919) -- Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) -- An age of exploration 1865-1910 -- Pioneers of a new poetry -- Walt Whitman (1819-1892) -- Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) -- Crosscurrents: freedom in the gilded age -- Walt Whitman (1819-1892) -- Henry Adams (1838-1918) -- George Washington Cable (1844-1925) -- Booker T. Washington (1856-1915) -- Realism and naturalism 1880-1920 -- Mark Twain (1835-1910) -- William Dean Howells (1837-1920) -- Henry James (1843-1916) -- Bret Harte (1836-1902) -- Red Cloud (C. 1822-1909) -- Sarah Winnemucca Hopkins (1844-1891) -- Henry Adams (1838-1918) -- Sarah Orne Jewett (1849-1909) -- Kate Chopin (1851-1904) -- Mary E. Wilkins Freeman (1852-1930) -- Charles W. Chesnutt (1858-1932) -- Crosscurrents: prosperity and social justice at the turn of the century -- Andrew Carnegie (1835-1919) -- Stephen Crane (1871-1900) -- William Vaughn Moody (1869-1910) -- Zitkala-sa (1876-1938) -- W.E.B. du Bois (1868-1938) -- Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860-1935) -- Frank Norris (1870-1902) -- Stephen Crane (1871-1900) -- Edith Wharton (1862-1937) -- Theodore Dreiser (1871-1945) -- Jack London (1876-1916). Literary Renaissance 1910-1930 -- New directions: the first wave -- Edwin Arlington Robinson (1869-1935) -- Willa Cather (1873-1947) -- Robert Frost (1874-1963) -- Carl Sandburg (1878-1967) -- Sherwood Anderson (1876-1941) -- Susan Glaspell (1876?-1948) -- Ezra Pound (1885-1972) -- T.S. Eliot (1888-1965) -- Amy Lowell (1874-1925) -- Elinor Wylie (1885-1928) -- H.D. (Hilda Doolittle) (1886-1961) -- Poets of ideas and order -- Wallace Stevens (1879-1955) -- William Carlos Williams (1883-1963) -- Marianne Moore (1887-1972) -- Hart Crane (1899-1932) -- A literature of social and cultural challenge 1920-1945 -- Eugene O'Neill (1888-1953) -- Robinson Jeffers (1887-1962) -- Claude McKay (1889-1948) -- Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892-1950) -- E.E. Cummings (1894-1962) -- Crosscurrents: the jazz and the Harlem Renaissance -- James Weldon Johnson (1871-1938) -- Paul Robeson (1898-1976) -- Langston Hughes (1902-1967) -- St. James Infirmary Blues -- Langston Hughes (1902-1967) -- F. Scott Fitzgerald (1986-1940) -- John Dos Passos (1896-1970) -- William Faulkner (1987-1962) -- Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961) -- Katherine Anne Porter (1890-1980) -- Richard Wright (1908-1960). The Second World War and its aftermath 1945-1975 -- Tennessee Williams (1911-1983) -- Crosscurrents: the age of anxiety: the beat generation and social responsibility -- Jack Kerouac (1922-1969) -- John Clellon Holmes (1926-1988) -- Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890-1969) -- Rachel Carson (1904-1964) -- Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929-1968) -- Theodore Roethke (1908-1963) -- Elizabeth Bishop (1911-1979) -- Czeslaw Milosz (1911-2004) -- Robert Hayden (1913-1980) -- John Berryman (1914-1972) -- Gwendolyn Brooks (1917-2000) -- Robert Lowell (1917-1977) -- Denise Levertov (1923-1977) -- Robert Bly (1926- ) -- Allen Ginsberg (1926-1997) -- Sylvia Plath (1932-1963) -- Amiri Baraka (1934- ) -- Eudora Welty (1909-2001) -- Vladimir Nabokov (1899-1977) -- Isaac Bashevis Singer (1904-1991) -- John Cheever (1912-1982) -- Ralph Ellison (1914-1994) -- Bernard Malamud (1914-1986) -- Saul Bellow (1915-2005) -- James Baldwin (1924-1987) -- Flannery O'Connor (1925-1964) -- John Barth (1930- ) -- John Updike (1932- ) -- Philip Roth (1933- ) -- Thomas Pynchon (1937- ). A century ends and a new millennium begins 1975-present -- Crosscurrents: what is an American? Freedom and responsibility -- Bob Dylan (1941- ) Norman Mailer (1923-2007) -- Betty Friedan (1921-2006) -- Tim O'Brien (1946- ) -- Al Gore, Jr. (1948- ) -- James Wright (1927-1980) -- James Merrill (1926-1980) -- John Ashbery (1927- ) -- Anne Sexton (1928-1974) -- Andrienne Rich (1929- ) -- Gary Snyder (1930- ) -- Mary Oliver (1935- ) -- Joseph Brodsky (1940-1996) -- Simon J. Ortiz (1941- ) -- Rita Dove (1952- ) -- Cathy Song (1955- ) -- Prose -- Joyce Carol Oates (1938- ) -- Toni Morrison (1931- ) -- Raymond Carver (1938-1988) -- Bobbie Ann Mason (1940- ) -- Bharati Mukherjee (1940- ) -- John Edgar Wideman (1941- ) -- Alice Walker (1944- ) -- Tim O'Brien (1946- ) -- Anne Beattie (1947- ) -- Amy Tan (1952- ) -- Louise Erdrich (1954- ) -- Sandra Cisneros (1954- ) -- Sherman Alexie (1966- ) -- Jhumpa Lahiri (1967- ) -- Edwidge Danticat (1969- ). |
| Responsibility: | [edited by] George Perkins, Barbara Perkins. |
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