The Norton anthology of American literature /

The Norton anthology of American literature / Nina Baym, General editor, Swanlund Chair and Center for advanced study professor Emerita of English, Robert S. Levine, Associate General editor, Professor of English and Distinguished Scholar-Teacher, University of Maryland, College Park. - Eighth edition. - 1756 pages, 8 pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; 24 cm

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Volume B. 1820-1865. Contents: American Literature, 1820-1865. Washington Irving -- James Fenimore Cooper -- The Cherokee memorials -- Catharine Maria Sedgwick -- William Cullen Bryant -- William Apess -- Lydia Maria Child -- Ralph Waldo Emerson -- Nathaniel Hawthorne -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow -- John Greenleaf Whittier -- Edgar Allan Poe -- Abraham Lincoln --
Margaret Fuller -- Harriet Beecher Stowe -- Fanny Fern (Sarah Willis Parton) -- Harriet Jacobs -- Henry David Thoreau -- Frederick Douglass -- Walt Whitman -- Herman Melville -- Emily Dickinson -- Rebecca Harding Davis -- Louisa May Alcott.

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American literature.


United States--Literary collections.



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