Highlights
New Five-Volume Format
With the Sixth Edition, The Norton Anthology of American Literature introduces a new five-volume format. Packaged in two attractive slipcases, the Sixth Edition volumes are slimmer and more portable, with thicker paper and increased flexibility for both survey and period courses. Instructors may package any combination of volumes or order individual volumes.
Thirty-Three Complete Works
The Norton Anthology of American Literature includes more major works in their entirety than does any other anthology of American literature. Providing students with exceptional value and instructors with increased flexibility, the Sixth Edition offers thirty-three complete longer works, fourteen in Package 1 and nineteen in Package 2.
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Reconceived and Revised Early Periods
- Literature to 1700
A new trickster tale enhances the already rich selection of native American narratives. Colonial multiethnicity is more strongly emphasized in the expanded period introduction and more vividly represented by the travel and biographical writings of newly included authors Garcilaso de la Vega, Jacob Steendam, Adriaen Van der Donck, and Francis Pastorious. - American Literature, 1700–1820
Philip F. Gura, William S. Newman Distinguished Professor of American Literature and Culture at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, has reconfigured this period to convey more fully the scope of writing in the era of revolution. Newly included are voices from the Atlantic rim--James Grainger, Briton Hammon, and the anonymous author of "The Speech of Moses Bon Sıam"; the poet Annis Boudinot Stockton; the novelist Charles Brockden Brown; and the playwright Royall Tyler, represented by his early comedy, The Contrast.
Thoroughly Revised Apparatus
- Revised—some entirely rewritten—period introductions, headnotes, footnotes, and bibliographies
- Texts/Contexts timelines for each period
- Endpaper maps
- A new feature, author-lifespan chronologies, on the endpapers
- New editor Philip F. Gura
Enriched across the Genres with Thirty New Writers
- Drama
The Norton Anthology of American Literature offers an unmatched selection of complete plays, three new to the Sixth Edition: Package 1: Royall Tyler, The Contrast (new); Package 2: Susan Glaspell, Trifles (new); Eugene O’Neill, Long Day’s Journey into Night; Tennessee Williams, A Streetcar Named Desire; Arthur Miller, Death of a Salesman; David Mamet, Glengarry Glen Ross; Amiri Baraka, Dutchman; and Suzan-Lori Parks, The America Play (new). - Fiction
Among the new works are stories by Rudolfo Anaya, Carlos Bulosan, Abraham Cahan, Sui Sin Far, D’arcy McNickle, and Judith Ortiz Cofer. Two key modernist novellas—Katherine Anne Porter’s Pale Horse, Pale Rider and Nella Larsen’s Quicksand—are included complete. There are new stories by Willa Cather and F. Scott Fitzgerald, along with selections from Charles Brockden Brown’s Wieland, Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin, and Steinbeck’s Grapes of Wrath. With ten complete novels and novellas, thoughtful selections from over a dozen additional novels, and more than one hundred unabridged short stories, the anthology is unequalled in the range and completeness of its fiction. - Poetry
Poetry has been enriched across the periods: Billy Collins, Jorie Graham, James Grainger, Emma Lazarus, Sarah Morgan Bryan Piatt, Stanley Kunitz, Charles Simic, Annis Boudinot Stockton, and Charles Wright are new to the Sixth Edition. - Nonfiction
Nonfiction, too, has been strengthened with early exploration narratives by Garcilaso de la Vega and Samuel de Champlain; autobiographical accounts by the slaves Briton Hammon and "Moses Bon Sıam"; selections from Frederick Douglass’s My Bondage and My Freedom; California gold-rush letters and memoirs by Louise Amelia Knapp Smith Clappe ("Dame Shirley") and Bayard Taylor; and critical writings by Edgar Allan Poe and Gloria Anzald™a.
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