The American tradition in literature.
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New York : McGraw-Hill, ©1990.
Edition
7th ed. /
ISBN
0075572044, 9780075572046, 0075572087, 9780075572084, 0070493448, 9780070493445, 007049343X, 9780070493438
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2 volumes ; 25 cm
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| Location | Call Number | Status |
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| Newton - Adult | 820.8 B72A 1990 1 | On Shelf |
| Newton - Adult | 820.8 B72A 1990 2 | On Shelf |
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Published
New York : McGraw-Hill, ©1990.
Format
Book
Edition
7th ed. /
Language
English
ISBN
0075572044, 9780075572046, 0075572087, 9780075572084, 0070493448, 9780070493445, 007049343X, 9780070493438
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Includes bibliographical references.
Description
A collection of American literature, including drama, fiction, poetry, and prose.
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Table of Contents
THE COLONIES, THE REVOLUTION, AND THE NEW NATION
THE COLONIES
JOHN SMITH (1580
1631)
The General History of Virginia, New England, and the Summer Isles
The Third Book. The Proceedings and Accidents of the English Colony in Virginia. Chapter II: What Happened till the First Supply
The Fourth Book. The Proceedings of the English After the Altercation of the Government of Virginia. John Smith's Relation to Queen Anne of Pocahontas
The Sixth Book. The General History of New England. The Description of New England
WILLIAM BRADFORD (1590
1657)
Of Plymouth Plantation, Book I. Chapter IX: Of their Voyage, and how they Passed the Sea; and of their Safe Arrival at Cape Cod
Chapter X: Showing How they Sought out a place of Habitation; and What Befell them Thereabout
Of Plymouth Plantation, Book II
The Mayflower Compact
Compact with the Indians
First Thanksgiving
Narragansett Challenge
Thomas Morton of Merrymount
JOHN WINTHROP (1588
1649)
A Model of Christian Charity
ROGER WILLIAMS (1603?
1683)
The Bloody Tenet of Persecution for Cause of Conscience, Preface. Chapter XCIII
The Bloody Tenet Yet More Bloody
Letter to the Town of Providence
THE BAY PSALM BOOK (1640)
The Preface
Psalm 1
Psalm 8
Psalm 19
Psalm 23
Psalm 141
ANNE BRADSTREET (1612?
1672)
The Prologue
The Four Ages of Man. Childhood
The Flesh and the Spirit
Contemplations
The Author to Her Book
Before the Birth of One of Her Children
To My Dear and Loving Husband
A Letter to Her Husband, Absent upon Public Employment
Another
In memory of My Dear Grandchild Elizabeth Bradstreet, Who Deceased August, 1665 Being a Year and a Half Old
Upon the Burning of Our House, July 10th, 1666
Meditations, Divine and Moral
MICHAEL WIGGLESWORTH (1631
1705)
The Day of Doom
MARY ROWLANDSON (1636?
1678?)
A Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson
SAMUEL SEWALL (1652
1730)
The Diary of Samuel Sewall
EDWARD TAYLOR (1645?
1729)
The Preface
Meditation 1, First Series
Upon Wedlock, and Death of Children
The Experience
Huswifery
Meditation 8, First Series
The Glory of and Grace in the Church set out
Upon a Spider Catching a Fly
The Reflexion
The Joy of Church Fellowship rightly attended
Meditation 42, First Series
A Fig for thee Oh! Death
Meditation 142, Second Series
Meditation 146, Second Series
COTTON MATHER (1663
1728)
Magalia Christi Americana
The Life of John Winthrop
The Life of His Excellency Sir William Phips
Bonifacius: Essays to Do Good
Much Occasion for Doing Good
The Excellence of Well-Doing
Opportunities to Do Good
On Internal Piety and Self
Examination
SARAH KEMBLE KNIGHT (1666
1727)
The Journal of Madam Knight
New England Frontier
Connecticut
New York City
EBENEZER COOK (1667?
1733?)
The Sotweed Factor
WILLIAM BYRD (1674
1744)
The History of the Dividing line
The Marooner
Lubberland
Indian Neighbors
A Progress to the Mines
Reading a Play in the Backwoods
JONATHAN EDWARDS (1703
1758)
Sarah Pierrepont
The Divine and Supernatural Light
Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God
Personal Narrative
The Nature of True Virtue
Dissertation: Concerning the End for Which God Created the World, Chapter I: What Reason Teaches Concerning Creation
JOHN WOOLMAN (1720
1772)
The Journal of John Woolman
ST. JEAN DE CREVECŒUR (1735
1813)
Letter from an American Farmer
What Is an American
Description of Charles-Town; Thoughts on Slavery; On Physical Evil; A Melancholy Scene
Sketches of Eighteenth Century America
Manners of the Americans
PHILLIS WHEATLEY (1754?
1784)
To the University of Cambridge, in New-England
On Being Brought from Africa to America
On the Death of the Reverend Mr. George Whitefield
An Hymn to the Evening
To S.M. a Young African Painter, on Seeing His Works
To His Excellency General Washington.
REVOLUTION AND THE NEW NATION
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN (1706
1790)
The Autobiography
Poor Richard's Almanack. The Way to Wealth: Preface to Poor Richard
The Speech of Polly Baker
An Edict by the King of Prussia
The Sale of the Hessians
Letter to Peter Collinson [Kite and Key]
The Ephemera
To Madame Helvetius
Letter to Joseph Priestly [Science and Humanity]
Letter to Sir Joseph Banks [War and Peace]
Information to Those Who Would Remove to America
Letter to William Franklin [We Are Men, All Subject to Errors]
Reason and Religion
Letter to Ezra Stiles [Here Is My Creed]
Speech in the Constitutional Convention
THOMAS PAINE (1737
1809)
Common Sense
The American Crisis
The Age of Reason
Profession of Faith
Of Myth and Miracle
Christian Revelation and Nature
First Cause: God of Reason
Recapitulation
WILLIAM BARTRAM (1739
1823)
Travel Through North and South Carolina, Georgia, East and West Florida
Alligators
The Amazing Crystal Fountain
Indian Corn, Green Meadows, and Strawberry Fields
THOMAS JEFFERSON (1743
1826)
The Declaration of Independence
First Inaugural Address
Notes on the State of Virginia
A Southerner on Slavery
An American on Dictators
Letter to Dr. Benjamin Rush [The Christian Deist]
Letter to John Adams [The True Aristocracy]
Letter to Dr. Walter Jones [The Character of Washington]
Letter to President Monroe [The Monroe Doctrine]
THE FEDERALIST (1787
1788)
The Federalist No. 1 [Alexander Hamilton]
The Federalist No. 10 [James Madison]
The Federalist No. 23 [Alexander Hamilton]
PHILIP FRENEAU (1752
1832)
To Sir Toby
To the Memory of the Brave Americans
On Mr. Paine's Rights of Man
The Wild Honey Suckle
The Indian Burying Ground
On a Honey Bee
To a Caty-Did
On the Universality and Other Attributes of the God of Nature
JOEL BARLOW (1754
1812)
The Hasty-Pudding
Advice to a Raven in Russia
ROYALL TYLER (1757
1826)
The Contrast
CHARLES BROCKDEN BROWN (1771
1810)
Edgar Huntly, Chapters XV, XVI
THE ROMANTIC TEMPER AND THE HOUSE DIVIDED
NATURE AND SOCIETY
THE NATIVE AMERICAN HERITAGE
Manabozho
The Chief's Daughters
Coyote and Bear
A Tale of the Sky World
Speech of Logan
Speech of Red Jacket
Speech of Tecumseh
Speech of Speckled Snake
Speech of Red Cloud
Twelfth Song of the Thunder
Formula to Destroy Life
The Corn Grows Up
At the Time of the White Dawn
Snake the Cause
Three Songs of Owl Woman
The Waver's Lamentation
MERIWETHER LEWIS (1774
1809)
Journals
WASHINGTON IRVING (1783
1859)
A History of New York, by Diedrich Knickerbocker
Book II: In Which Is Recorded the Golden Reign of Wouter Van Twiller (Chapters I, IV)
The Author's Account of Himself
Rip Van Winkle
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
JAMES FENIMORE COOPER (1789
1851)
The Pioneers, or The Sources of the Susquehanna
The American Democrat
An Aristocrat and a Democrat
Preface to The Leather-Stocking Tales
WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT (1794
1878)
Thanatopsis
The Yellow Violet
Inscription for the Entrance to a Wood
To a Waterfowl
Oh Fairest of the Rural Maids
A Forest Hymn
The Two Graves
To Cole, the Painter, Departing For Europe
To the Fringed Gentian
The Prairies
Robert of Lincoln
The Poet
The Death of Lincoln
The Flood of Years
FRANCIS PARKMAN (1823
1893)
The Oregon Trail, Chapter XXIV: The Chase
COLLOQUIAL HUMOR
AUGUSTUS BALDWIN LONGSTREET (1790
1870)
The Horse-Swap
T.B. THORPE (1815
1878)
The Big Bear of Arkansas
GEORGE WASHINGTON HARRIS (1814
1869)
Sut Lovingood's Daddy, Acting Horse.
THE HUMANITARIAN SENSIBILITY
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW (1807
1882)
A Psalm of Life
The Skeleton in Armor
The Arsenal at Springfield
Seaweed
The Song of Hiawatha
The Jewish Cemetery at Newport
My Lost Youth
Divinia Commedia
Chaucer
Milton
Nature
The Tide Rises, the Tide Falls
The Cross of Snow
JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER (1807
1892)
Massachusetts to Virginia
Ichabod
The Shoemakers
First-Day Thoughts
Skipper Ireson's Ride
Telling the Bees
Laus Deo
Snow-Bound
Abraham Davenport
Burning Drift-Wood
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES (1809
1894)
Old Ironsides
The Last Leaf
My Aunt
The Chambered Nautilus
The Deacon's Masterpiece
Elsie Venner, Chapter I: The Brahmin Caste of New England
ABRAHAM LINCOLN (1809
1865)
Speech at Cooper Union, New York
Farewell Address at Springfield
First Inaugural Address
Reply to Horace Greeley
Letter to General Joseph Hooker
Letter to General U.S. Grant
Address at the Dedication of the Gettysburg National Cemetery
Second Inaugural Address
HARRIET BEECHER STOWE (1811
1896)
Uncle Tom's Cabin, Chapter VII, Chapter XIX, Chapter XL, Chapter XLI
Oldtown Folks
Miss Asphyxia
FREDERICK DOUGLASS (1817?
1895)
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
Chapter I
Chapter VII
Chapter X
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL (1819
1891)
A Fable for Critics
The Biglow Papers, First Series. No.1: A Letters
The Biglow Papers, Second Series. Introduction The Courtin'
Ode Recited at the Harvard Commemoration
TRANSCENDENTAL AND SYMBOLIC REPRESENTATION
RALPH WALDO EMERSON (1803
1882)
Nature
The American Scholar
The Divinity School Address
Self-Reliance
Compensation
The Over-Soul
Experience
The Poet
Fate
Concord Hymn
Each and All
The Rhodora
The Problem
Uriel
The Snow-Storm
Threnody
Ode to Beauty
Hamatreya
The Apology
Merlin
Give All to Love
Ode, Inscribed to W.H. Channing
Fable
Brahma
Days
Waldensamkeit
Terminus
Journals and Letters
HENRY DAVID THOREAU (1817
1862)
A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers [Nature, Poetry, and the Poet]
Walden
Civil Disobedience
Life without Principle
My Prayer
Rumors from an Aeolian Harp
The Inward Morning
To the Maiden in the East
The Summer Rain
Haze
Inspiration
The Fall of the Leaf
Journals
EDGAR ALLEN POE (1809
1849)
Romance
Song from Al Aaraaf
Sonnet To Science
Lenore
The Sleeper
Israfel
To Helen
The City in the Sea
The Coliseum
To One in Paradise
Sonnet Silence
Dream-Land
The Raven
Ulalume
The Bells
Annabel Lee
Ligeia
The Fall of the House of Usher
The Masque of the Red Death
The Purloined Letter
The Cask of Amontillado
Letter to B
Twice-Told Tales, by Nathaniel Hawthorne: A Review
The Philosophy of Composition
The Poetic Principle
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE (1804
1864)
My Kinsman, Major Molineux
Young Goodman Brown
Wakefield
The Ambitious Guest
The Minister's Black Veil
The Maypole of Merry Mount
The Birthmark
The Artist of the Beautiful
Rappaccini's Daughter
Ethan Brand
Preface to The House of the Seven Gables
The Scarlet Letter
HERMAN MELVILLE (1819
1891)
Hawthorne and His Mosses
Bartleby the Scrivener
The Encantadas, or Enchanted Isles
The Paradise of Bachelors and the Tartarus of Maids
The Portent
Misgivings
The March into Virginia
A Utilitarian View of the Monitor's Flight
Shiloh
Malvern Hill
The House-Top
The College Colonel
An Uninscribed Monument
The Good Craft "Snow-Bird"
Old Counsel
The Tuft of Kelp
After the Pleasure Party
The Maldive Shark
Monody
Lone Founts
Art
Greek Architecture
Billy Budd, Sailor
WALT WHITMAN (1819
1892)
Preface to the 1855 Edition of Leaves of Grass
Song of Myself
Out of the Rolling Ocean the Crowd
Once I Pass'd through a Populous City
Facing West From California's Shores
As Adam Early in the Morning
For You O Democracy
I Saw in Louisiana a Live-oak Growing
I Hear It Was Charged Against Me
Crossing Brooklyn Ferry
Song of the Redwood-Tree
Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking
As I Ebb'd with the Ocean of life
To the Man-of-War-Bird
Gods
When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer
The Dalliance of the Eagles
Beat! Beat! Drums!
Cavalry Crossing a Ford
Vigil Strange I Kept on the Field One Night
A March in the Ranks Hard-Prest, and the Road Unknown
A Sight in Camp in the Daybreak Gray and Dim
The Wound-Dresser
Look Down Fair Moon
Reconciliation
When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd
There Was a Child Went Forth
This Compost
To a Common Prostitute
Passage to India
Prayer of Columbus
The Sleepers
Darest Thou Now O Soul
Whispers of Heavenly Death
Changing the Square Deific
A Noiseless Patient Spider
To a Locomotive in Winter
By Broad Potomac's Shore
Joy, Shipmate, Joy!
So Long!
Good-bye My Fancy!
Democratic Vistas
Specimen Days
After First Fredricksburg
Patent-Office Hospital
The White House by Moonlight
The Wounded from Chancellorsville
Unnamed Remains the Bravest Soldier
Abraham Lincoln
Virginia
Summer of 1864
In Inauguration
Death of President Lincoln
No Good Portrait of Lincoln
Three Years Summ'd Up
The Million Dead, Too, Summ'd Up
Entering a Long Farm-Lane
To the Spring and Brook.
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Perkins, G. B. (1990). The American tradition in literature (7th ed. /). McGraw-Hill.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Perkins, George B., 1930-. 1990. The American Tradition in Literature. McGraw-Hill.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Perkins, George B., 1930-. The American Tradition in Literature McGraw-Hill, 1990.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Perkins, George B. The American Tradition in Literature 7th ed. /, McGraw-Hill, 1990.
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