Concise Heath Anthology of American Literature, Volume 1: Beginnings to 1865 / Edition 2

by Paul Lauter

Overview

A best-selling anthology since its first edition, this premier survey of American literature has influenced the manner in which the American literary canon is taught in classrooms across the nation. In response to readers' requests, the editors of the Heath Anthology continue to develop and reinforce its greatest strengths: diverse reading selections and strong ancillaries. With the assistance of more than 200 contributing editors all specialists in particular eras and writers the editors have updated biographical and critical information, as well as added new works of interest to both instructors and students.

The Fourth Edition features writers and selections that highlight the divergent communities and diverse voices constituting the United States, both past and present. Volume 1 takes students from Native American oral literatures up to 1865, including Whitman and Dickinson. Volume 2 (which can be packaged with a free supplement of Whitman and Dickinson works) opens with African American folk tales and regional writers, and includes new sections on the Beat Movement and the Vietnam Conflict.

• Full-length texts continue to be integrated throughout the anthology, including The Scarlet Letter in Vol. 1 and The Awakening in Vol. 2.
• The textbook web site complements both volumes of the text through a searchable, multimedia timeline with literary, historical, and cultural information; author profile pages; links to other sites for further research; and an online version of the Instructor's Guide.
• The Southern literature section includes two short stories by William Faulkner, Dry September and Barn Burning, and an essay by H.L. Mencken, TheSahara of the Bozarts. Coverage of border literature includes the work of novelist María Amparo Ruíz de Burton. In addition, gay and lesbian writers such as Dorothy Allison, James Merrill, and Richard Rodriguez are featured throughout.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	2901285079997
Publisher:	Cengage Learning
Publication date:	08/12/2013
Series:	Heath Anthology of American Literature Series
Edition description:	Concise
Pages:	1280
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 1.25(h) x 9.00(d)

About the Author

Paul Lauter is the Smith Professor of Literature at Trinity College. He has served as president of the American Studies Association and is a major figure in the revision of the American literary canon.

Table of Contents

BEGINNINGS TO 1700. Native American Cultures and Traditions. The Europeans Arrive. Colonial Cultures of the Americas. Colonial Literatures of the Americas. INDIGENOUS LITERARY TRADITIONS. CREATION/EMERGENCE ACCOUNTS. Talk Concerning the First Beginning (Zuni). The Origin of Stories (Seneca). Iroquois or Confederacy of the Five Nations (Haudenosaunee-Iroquois). Man's Dependence on Animals (Anishinaabe Ojibway). The Arrival of the Whites (Lenape-Delaware). RITUAL POETRY, SONG, AND CEREMONY. Two Songs (Aztec). Deer Hunting Song (Virsak Vai-i, O'odham). Song of Repulse to a Vain Lover (To'ak, Makah). Song of War (Odjib'we, Anishinabe-Ojibway). Song of War (Victoria, Tohono O'odham). Thanksgiving Address (Haudenosaunee-Iroquois). Formula to Attract a Woman (Cherokee). Formula for Going to the Water (Cherokee). NEW SPAIN. CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS: from Journal of the First Voyage to America, 1492-1493. LVAR N EZ CABEZA DE VACA: from Relation of lvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca. Prologue. from Chapter VII. The Character of the Country. from Chapter VIII. We Go from Aute. from Chapter X. The Assault from the Indians. from Chapter XXI. Our Cure of Some of the Afflicted. from Chapter XXIV. Customs of the Indians of That Country. from Chapter XXVII. We Moved Away and Were Well Received. from Chapter XXXII. The Indians Give Us the Hearts of Deer. from Chapter XXXIII. We See Traces of Christians. from Chapter XXXIV. Of Sending for the Christians. GASPAR DE VILLAGR : from Historia de la nueva Mexico. from Canto XII (in Spanish). from Canto I. from Canto XII. from Canto XIV. from Canto XXI. from Canto XXXI. from Canto XXXIV. THE APPARITION OF THE VIRGIN OF GUADALUPE IN 1531: History of the Miraculous Apparition of the Virgin of Guadalupe in 1531. SOR JUANA IN S DE LA CRUZ: 48. In Reply to a Gentleman from Peru, Who Sent Her Clay Vessels While Suggesting She Would Better Be a Man. NEW FRANCE. REN GOULAINE DE LAUDONNI RE: from A Notable Historie Containing Foure Voyages Made by Certaine French Captaines unto Florida. SAMUEL DE CHAMPLAIN: from The Voyages of Samuel de Champlain, 1604-1618. from The Voyages to the Great River St. Lawrence, 1608-1612. from The Voyages of 1615. THE JESUIT RELATIONS: from The Relation of 1647, by Father Jerome Lalemant. CHESAPEAKE. THOMAS HARRIOT: from A Briefe and True Report of the New Found Land of Virginia. JOHN SMITH: from The Generall Historie of Virginia, New-England, and the Summer Isles. from Book III, Chapter 2 [Smith as captive at the court of Powhatan in 1608]. from Book III, Chapter 8 [Smith's journey to Pamaunkee]. NEW NETHERLAND. ADRIAEN VAN DER DONCK: from A Description of New Netherland: from The Country: When and by Whom New Netherland Was First Discovered. Why This Territory Was Named New Netherland. The Limits of New Netherland and How Far They Extend. from Of the Manners and Extraordinary Qualities of the Original Natives of New Netherland: Their Bodily Shape, and Why They Are Called Wilden. from Fare and Food of the Indians. Their Religion and Whether They Can Be Christianized. NEW ENGLAND. THOMAS MORTON: from New English Canaan: from Book I, Containing the originall of the Natives, their manners & Customes, with their tractable nature and love towards the English. from Chapter IV. Of their Houses and Habitations. Chapter VIII. Of their Reverence, and respect to age. Chapter XVI. Of their Acknowledgment of the Creation, and Immortality of the Soule. from Chapter XX. That the Salvages live a contended life. from Book III, Containing a description of the People that are planted there, what remarkable Accidents have happened there since they were setled, what Tenents they hould, together with the practise of their Church from Chapter I. Of a great League made with the Plimmouth Planters after their arrivall, by the Sachem of those Territories. from Chapter V. Of A Massacre made upon the Salvages at Wessaguscus. from Chapter VII. Of Thomas Mortons entertainement at Plimmouth, and castinge away upon an Island. from Chapter XIV. Of the Revells of New Canaan. JOHN WINTHROP: from A Modell of Christian Charity; from The Journal of John Winthrop. WILLIAM BRADFORD: from Of Plymouth Plantation. from Book I: from Chapter I. The Separatist Interpretation of the Reformation in England 1550-1607. from Chapter IX. Of their Voyage, and how they Passed the Sea; and of their Safe Arrival at Cape Cod. from Book II: Chapter XI. The Remainder of Anno 1620. from Chapter XIV: Anno Domini 1623. from Chapter XIX: Anno Domini 1628. from Chapter XXVIII. Anno Domini 1637. ROGER WILLIAMS: from A Key into the Language of America: [Preface]: To my Deare and Welbeloved Friends and Countreymen, in old and new England. from Chapter XXI. Of Religion, the soule, &c. Chapter XXII. Of their Government and Justice. To the Town of Providence. Testimony of Roger Williams relative to his first coming into the Narragansett country. ANNE BRADSTREET: The Prologue [To Her Book]. The Author to Her Book. To My Dear and Loving Husband. A Letter to Her Husband, Absent upon Public Employment. In Memory of My Dear Grandchild Elizabeth Bradstreet, Who Deceased August, 1665, Being a Year and Half Old. Upon the Burning of Our House July 10th, 1666. To My Dear Children. MARY WHITE ROWLANDSON [TALCOTT]: from A Narrative of the Captivity and Restauration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson. EDWARD TAYLOR: from Gods Determinations: The Preface. from Occasional Poems: 4. Huswifery. 6. Upon Wedlock, & Death of Children. from Preparatory Meditations First Series: Prologue. 6. Another Meditation at the same time. 8. Meditation. Joh. 6.51. I am the Living Bread. from Preparatory Meditations Second Series: 1. Meditation. Col. 2.17. Which are Shaddows of things to come and the body is Christs. 50. Meditation. Joh. 1.14. Full of Truth. 115. Meditation. Cant. 5:10. My Beloved. from A Valediction to all the World preparatory for Death 3d of the 11m 1720 (from Version 1). Cant. 3. Valediction, to the Terraqueous Globe. A Fig for thee Oh! Death (Version 2). COTTON MATHER: from The Wonders of the Invisible World. V. The Trial of Martha Carrier at the Court of Oyer and Terminer, Held by Adjournment at Salem, August 2, 1692. from Bonifacius . . . . with Humble Proposals . . . to Do Good in the World. EIGHTEENTH CENTURY. The Enlightenment and the Great Awakenings. Daily Life and the Woman s Sphere. Literacy and Education. Revolution and Confederation. A Nation of Disparate Peoples. From the Plow, to the Sword, to the Book. SETTLEMENT AND RELIGION. JONATHAN EDWARDS: from A Faithful Narrative of the Surprising Work of God: Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God. JOHN WOOLMAN: from The Journal of John Woolman. SAMSON OCCOM (MOHEGAN): A Short Narrative of My Life; A Sermon Preached by Samson Occom. VOICES OF REVOLUTION AND NATIONALISM. BENJAMIN FRANKLIN: The Way to Wealth. A Witch Trial at Mount Holly. The Speech of Polly Baker. An Edict by the King of Prussia. The Ephemera, an Emblem of Human Life. Remarks Concerning the Savages of North America. On the Slave-Trade. Speech in the Convention. from The Autobiography: Part One. Twyford, at the Bishop of St. Asaph's, 1771. Part Two. Continuation of the Account of My Life Begun at Passy 1784. J. HECTOR ST. JOHN DE CR VECOEUR: from Letters from an American Farmer: from Letter III. What Is an American?. from Letter IX. Description of Charles Town. Thoughts on Slavery, on Physical Evil, a Melancholy Scene. THOMAS PAINE: from Common Sense: Thoughts on the Present State of American Affairs. JOHN ADAMS AND ABIGAIL ADAMS: from Autobiography of John Adams. Letter from Abigail Adams to John Adams, March 31, 1776. Letter from John Adams to Abigail Adams, April 14, 1776. from Letters from John Adams to Abigail Adams, July 3, 1776. Letter from Abigail Adams to John Adams, June 30, 1778. from Letter from John Adams to Thomas Jefferson, September 2, 1813. from Letter from Thomas Jefferson to John Adams, October 28, 1813. from Letter from John Adams to Thomas Jefferson, November 15, 1813. THOMAS JEFFERSON: from Autobiography of Thomas Jefferson [Declaration of Independence]. from Notes on the State of Virginia. from Query XI. Aborigines, Original Condition and Origin. from Query XIV. Laws. from Query XVIII. Manners . . . Effect of Slavery. from Letter to James Madison. from Letter to James Madison. Letter to Benjamin Banneker. Letter to Edward Coles. from Indian Addresses: To Brother Handsome Lake. CONTESTED VISIONS, AMERICAN VOICES. OLAUDAH EQUIANO: from The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, the African. Written by Himself: from Chapter 1, Chapter 2, from Chapter 10. JUDITH SARGENT MURRAY: On the Equality of the Sexes. PHILIP FRENEAU: A Political Litany. To Sir Toby. The Wild Honey Suckle. from The Country Printer. The Indian Burying Ground. On the Causes of Political Degeneracy. PHILLIS WHEATLEY: To M cenas; Letter to the Right Hon ble The Earl of Dartmouth per favour of Mr. Wooldridge. To the Right Honourable William, Earl of Dartmouth, His Majesty s Principal Secretary of State for North-America, &c. Letter to the Rt. Hon ble the Countess of Huntingdon. On the Death of the Rev. Mr. George Whitefield 1770. On Being Brought from Africa to America. To the University of Cambridge, in New England. To His Excellency General Washington. LEMUEL HAYNES: Liberty Further Extended: Or Free Thoughts on the Illegality of Slave-keeping. HANNAH WEBSTER FOSTER: from The Coquette; or, the History of Eliza Wharton: Letter I. Letter II. Letter III. Letter IV. Letter V. Letter VI. Letter VIII. Letter XI. Letter XII. Letter XIII. Letter XVIII. Letter LXV. Letter LXVIII. Letter LXXI. Letter LXXII. Letter LXXIII. Letter LXXIV. CHARLES BROCKDEN BROWN: Somnambulism: A Fragment. EARLY NINETEENTH CENTURY: 1800-1865. Publishing: Growth and Goals. Religion and Common Culture. The Debates over Racism and Slavery. The Debate over Women s Sphere. The Many Cultures of America. The Rise of Industry. Individualism and/vs. Community. NATIVE AMERICA. RED JACKET (SENECA): On the Religion of the White Man and the Red. SEATTLE (DUWAMISH): Speech of Chief Seattle. WILLIAM APESS (PEQUOT): An Indian s Looking-Glass for the White Man. JANE JOHNSTON SCHOOLCRAFT (OJIBWE): To the Pine Tree. By an Ojibwa Female Pen: Invitation to Sisters to a Walk in the Garden, after a Shower. Mish sha, or the Magician and His Daughters: A Chippewa Tale or Legend. The O-jib-way Maid. GEORGE COPWAY (KAH-GE-GA-GAH-BOWH; OJIBWA): from The Life of Kah-ge-ga-gah-bowh. JOHN ROLLIN RIDGE (CHEROKEE): Oppression of Digger Indians. The Stolen White Girl. SPANISH AMERICAS. LA LLORONA: Legend of La Llorona. CARMEN TAFOLLA: La Llorona, Crying Lady of the Creekbeds, 483 Years Old, and Aging. JOS MAR A HEREDIA: In a Tempest: An Ode to the Hurricane (English). TALES FROM THE HISPANIC SOUTHWEST: La comadre Sebastiana (Dona Sebastiana). Los tres hermanos (The Three Brothers). IN FOCUS: CUBA IN THE ANTEBELLUM U.S. IMAGINATION. JUAN CLEMENTE ZENEA: from El filibustero (in Spanish). from El Filibustero (in English). MIGUEL TEURBE TOL N: from En el segundo aniversario de La Verdad. from On the Second Anniversary of La Verdad. VICENTE P REZ ROSALES: from Times Gone By. THE CULTURES OF NEW ENGLAND. LYDIA HOWARD HUNTLEY SIGOURNEY: Death of an Infant. To the First Slave Ship. Indian Names. To a Shred of Linen. Fallen Forests. RALPH WALDO EMERSON: Nature; The American Scholar. Self-Reliance. Concord Hymn. Brahma. Days. JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER: The Farewell. At Port Royal. SARAH MARGARET FULLER: from Woman in the Nineteenth Century. HENRY DAVID THOREAU: Resistance to Civil Government. from Walden. Walking. IN FOCUS: RACE AND SLAVERY. JOHN QUINCY ADAMS: from Memoirs of John Quincy Adams. THOMAS RODERICK DEW: An Argument Upholding Slavery. ANGELA DAVIS: from Reflections on the Black Woman s Role in the Community of Slaves. LEVI COFFIN: from Reminiscences of Levi Coffin, the Reputed President of the Underground Railroad. LEON LITWACK: from North of Slavery: The Negro in the Free States, 1790-1860. U.S. CONGRESS: from Fugitive Slave Act of 1850. MARTIN R. DELANY AND FREDERICK DOUGLASS: An Exchange. CHIEF JUSTICE ROGER B. TANEY: from Dred Scott v. Sandford (1857). MORTIMER THOMSON: Great Auction Sales of Slaves at Savannah, Georgia. JOHN BROWN: from John Brown s Last Speech and Letters. RACE, SLAVERY, AND THE INVENTION OF THE SOUTH. DAVID WALKER: from Appeal . . . to the Coloured Citizens of the World (Third Edition, 1829). WILLIAM LLOYD GARRISON: Editorial from the First Issue of The Liberator. Declaration of Sentiments of the American Anti-Slavery Convention. LYDIA MARIA CHILD: from Letters from New York. The Duty of Disobedience to the Fugitive Slave Act: An Appeal to the Legislators of Massachusetts. ANGELINA GRIMK : from Appeal to the Christian Women of the South. FREDERICK DOUGLASS: Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave. CAROLINE LEE HENTZ: from The Planter s Northern Bride. FRANCES ELLEN WATKINS HARPER: The Slave Mother. Free Labor. HARRIET ANN JACOBS: from Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl. ABRAHAM LINCOLN: Address at the Dedication of the Gettysburg National Cemetery. Second Inaugural Address. IN FOCUS: THE CHEROKEE NATION AND THE ANGLO NATION. Cherokee Vision of Elohi. CHEROKEE WOMEN: Petition, May 2, 1817. Petition, June 30, 1818. Petition, October 17, 1821 [1831?]. ELIAS BOUDINOT (CHEROKEE): An Address to the Whites. CHEROKEE NATION: from Constitution of the Cherokee Nation. GEORGIA STATE ASSEMBLY: Laws Extending Jurisdiction over the Cherokees. ANDREW JACKSON: On Indian Removal: The President s Message to Congress. UNITED STATES CONGRESS: from Indian Removal Act, May 28, 1830. CHIEF JUSTICE JOHN MARSHALL: from Cherokee Nation v. Georgia (1831). from Worcester v. Georgia (1832). JOHN ROSS (CHEROKEE): Letter to Lewis Cass. Letter to Andrew Jackson. Annual Address. RALPH WALDO EMERSON: Letter to Martin Van Buren, President of the United States. LITERATURE AND THE WOMAN QUESTION. SARAH MOORE GRIMK : from Letters on the Equality of the Sexes, and the Condition of Woman. Letter VIII, The Condition of Women in the United States. SOJOURNER TRUTH: Reminiscences by Frances D. Gage of Sojourner Truth, for May 28-29, 1851. Speech at the Akron, Ohio, Women s Rights Meeting. FANNY FERN (SARA WILLIS PARTON): Hints to Young Wives. from Fern Leaves, Second Series. Male Criticism on Ladies Books. The Working-Girls of New York. ELIZABETH CADY STANTON: from Eighty Years and More: Reminiscences; Declaration of Sentiments. THE DEVELOPMENT OF NARRATIVE. WASHINGTON IRVING: Rip Van Winkle. CAROLINE KIRKLAND: from A New Home-Who'll Follow? NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE: My Kinsman, Major Molineux. Young Goodman Brown. Rappaccini's Daughter. Preface to The House of the Seven Gables. EDGAR ALLAN POE: The Fall of the House of Usher. The Tell-Tale Heart. The Purloined Letter. Sonnet-To Science. To Helen. The City in the Sea. The Raven. Annabel Lee. HARRIET BEECHER STOWE: from Uncle Tom's Cabin. WILLIAM WELLS BROWN: from Clotelle or, The Colored Heroine. HERMAN MELVILLE: Bartleby, the Scrivener. The Tartarus of Maids. Benito Cereno. from Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War, The Portent. from John Marr and Other Sailors, The Maldive Shark. ALICE CARY: from Clovernook, or Recollections of Our Neighborhood in the West, First Series. from Clovernook, or Recollections of Our Neighborhood in the West, Second Series. REBECCA HARDING DAVIS: Life in the Iron-Mills. THE EMERGENCE OF AMERICAN POETIC VOICES. SONGS AND BALLADS: Songs of the Slaves. Songs of White Communities. WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT: Thanatopsis. The Yellow Violet. To Cole, the Painter, Departing for Europe. To the Fringed Gentian. The Prairies. HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW: The Warning. The Arsenal at Springfield. The Jewish Cemetery at Newport. Nature. The Tide Rises, the Tide Falls. FRANCES SARGENT LOCKE OSGOOD: The Maiden s Mistake. Oh! Hasten to My Side. A Reply. The Indian Maid s Reply to the Missionary. The Hand That Swept the Sounding Lyre. WALT WHITMAN: Preface to the First Edition of Leaves of Grass. Song of Myself. from Inscriptions. from Children of Adam. from Calamus. from Sea-Drift. from By the Roadside. from Drum-Taps. from Memories of President Lincoln. from From Noon to Starry Night. from Sands at Seventy (First Annex). PHOEBE CARY: The Life of Trial. Jacob. EMILY DICKINSON: Poems. Letters.

Editorial Reviews

Of any American literature anthology, [this one features] the most generous variety of authors and texts with richly contextualized headnotes and footnotes.

It's very thorough and complete, offering a huge array of options. The headnotes are useful and provide clear information to students (and teachers!). The layout is clear and clean. It's readable.

From the Publisher