American Literature in Context to 1865 discusses the
issues and events that engaged American writers of the period,
providing original and useful readings of important literary works
that demonstrate how context contributes to meaning
* Covers a range of genres including the myths, chants and songs
of indigenous cultures, sermons, slave narratives, essays and the
novels and poetry to 1865
* Designed to be used alongside the major anthologies of
literature from the period
* Equips students with the necessary historical context needed to
understand the writings from this period
* Pedagogical features include a detailed bibliography, and a
transatlantic timeline, with literary works, and historical
events
Table of Content
Preface viii
Acknowledgments ix
Timeline of Texts and Historical Events x
The Arrival of the Europeans 1
European Exploration and Settlement: The Anvil and the Golden Fleece 17
The City on a Hill: Alternative Visions 32
From Colonies to Nation 61
The Struggle for Identity in Post-Revolutionary America 80
American Expansion and the Transcendentalists 98
The Originals: Edgar Allan Poe, Herman Melville, Emily Dickinson, and Walt Whitman 124
A House Divided: Abolitionism, the Women’s Movement, and the Civil War 146
Bibliography 171
Index 180
About the author
Susan Castillo is Harriet Beecher Stowe Professor of American Studies at King’s College London and has published extensively on colonial writing of the Early Americas, Native American writing, and on the U.S. South. Her books include The Literatures of Colonial America: An Anthology (Wiley-Blackwell, 2001), A Companion to the Literatures of Colonial America (Wiley-Blackwell, 2005), Colonial Encounters in New World Writing, 1500-1786: Performing America (2005) and American Travel Writing and Empire (2009).
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