American Literature Courses

A Bite of the Apple: A Life with Books, Writers and Virago

Lennie Goodings

9780198828747
Paperback
11 November 2022

The Oxford Reader

Deborah H. Holdstein and Danielle Aquiline

9780197618813
Looseleaf
28 February 2022

Offers a renewed emphasis on more traditional forms of literacy

The Oxford Reader

Deborah H. Holdstein and Danielle Aquiline

9780190856014
Paperback
28 February 2022

Offers a renewed emphasis on more traditional forms of literacy

The Short Story: A Very Short Introduction

Andrew Kahn

9780198754633
Paperback
01 February 2022

What is American Literature?

Ilan Stavans

9780198816218
Hardcover
01 February 2022

Empire of Ruin: Black Classicism and American Imperial Culture

John Levi Barnard

9780197635100
Paperback
29 December 2021

Henry James: A Very Short Introduction

Susan L. Mizruchi

9780190944384
Paperback
01 June 2021

Unscripted America: Indigenous Languages and the Origins of a Literary Nation

Sarah Rivett

9780190077815
Paperback
28 February 2020

Unscripted America: Indigenous Languages and the Origins of a Literary Nation

Sarah Rivett

9780190492564
Hardcover
17 November 2017

Anthology of Modern American Poetry: Volume 1

Second Edition

Cary Nelson

9780199920723
Paperback
14 July 2014

An anthology as diverse as American poetry itself

Anthology of Contemporary American Poetry: Volume 2

Second Edition

Cary Nelson

9780199920730
Paperback
14 July 2014

An anthology as diverse as American poetry itself.

The Men Who Knew Too Much: Henry James and Alfred Hitchcock

Susan M. Griffin and Alan Nadel

9780199764433
Paperback
13 February 2012

An innovative pairing of Henry James and Alfred Hitchcock, showing them to be at once classic and contemporary

A Historical Guide to Joseph Conrad

John Peters

9780195332773
Hardcover
11 December 2009

An accessible guide and comprehensive overview to the widely read and widely taught canonical author, complete with an up-to-date bibliography and illustrated chronology.

American Working-Class Literature: An Anthology

Nicholas Coles and Janet Zandy

9780195144567
Paperback
24 August 2006

America's workers have been singing, reciting, performing, telling stories, writing, and publishing for more than three centuries. Ranging from early colonial times to the present, this groundbreaking anthology presents more than 300 literary texts that exemplify this tradition.

The First West: Writing from the American Frontier 1776-1860

Edward Watts and David Rachels

9780195141337
Paperback
21 February 2002

Here is an intriguing blend of literary and nonliterary writing from such well-known figures as Thomas Jefferson, Margaret Fuller, Black Hawk, Caroline Kirkland, Thomas Bangs Thorpe, and Abraham Lincoln.

Early American Writings

Carla Mulford

9780195118414
Paperback
06 December 2001

Ranging from the colonial era to the birth of the new republic, Early American Writings includes more than 170 writers who represent the great diversity of interests and peoples of the era as well as the range of cultural references early American readers experienced.

American Short Stories since 1945

John G. Parks

9780195131321
Paperback
23 August 2001

Here is the modern American short story in all its diversity, featuring marvelous selections by Raymond Carver, John Cheever, James Baldwin, Ralph Ellison, Ernest J. Gaines, Jamaica Kincaid, Bharati Mukherjee, Alice Walker, Sandra Cisneros, Maxine Hong Kingston, Amy Tan, and many others.

Popular American Literature of the 19th Century

Paul C. Gutjahr

9780195141405
Paperback
22 February 2001

Transcendentalism: A Reader

Joel Myerson

9780195122138
Paperback
14 December 2000

A new, comprehensive collection of writings from the American Renaissance

The Oxford Harriet Beecher Stowe Reader

Joan D. Hedrick

9780195091175
Paperback
08 October 1998