Open Anthology of Earlier American Literature

by Timothy Robbins

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This textbook takes a distinctly socio-historical approach to introducing Early American literature. The anthology will allow students to engage with literature in exciting and dynamic ways. The table of contents has been drafted, and we are currently looking for introduction authors and help securing public domain texts.

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Subjects
Humanities, Literature and Literacy
Licence
CC BY 4.0, as LibreTexts states it
Who can read
Teens profiles and older, judged from its title and subjects

Contents

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  1. Front Matter
  2. TitlePage
  3. InfoPage
  4. Table of Contents
  5. Licensing
  6. 1: Pre-contact, Contact, and Colonization
  7. 1.1: Origin Myth of the Acoma
  8. 1.2: The Popul Vuh
  9. 1.3: Mayan Chilam Balam
  10. 1.4: The Book of Genesis, King James Bible
  11. 1.5: Seneca Creation Myths
  12. 1.6: Other Native American and Ethnographic Texts
  13. 1.7: Christopher Columbus (c.1450-1506)
  14. 1.8: Bartolome De Las Casas (1484 – 1566)
  15. 1.9: Alvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca (c.1488-c.1560)
  16. 1.10: The Requerimiento (1513)
  17. 1.11: The Pueblo Revolt of 1680
  18. 2: New England - Puritanism
  19. 2.1: Thomas Morton (c. 1579–1647)
  20. 2.2: John Smith (1580–1631)
  21. 2.3: John Winthrop (1588-1649)
  22. 2.4: William Bradford (1590–1657)
  23. 2.5: Roger Williams (c.1603-1683)
  24. 2.6: Anne Bradstreet (1612-1672)
  25. 2.7: Mary Rowlandson (c. 1637-1711)
  26. 2.8: Edward Taylor (c.1642-1729)
  27. 2.9: Cotton Mather (1663-1728)
  28. 2.10: Jonathan Edwards (1703-1758)
  29. 2.11: Elizabeth Ashbridge (1713-1755)
  30. 3: Struggles, Revolution, and Nation
  31. 3.1: Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)
  32. 3.2: J. Hector St. John de Crevecoeur (1735-1813)
  33. 3.3: Prince Hall (c.1735-1807)
  34. 3.4: Thomas Paine (c.1736-1809)
  35. 3.5: Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826)
  36. 3.6: Toussaint L’Ouverture (1743-1803)
  37. 3.7: Hugh Henry Brackenridge (1748-1816)
  38. 3.8: Judith Sargent Murray (1751-1820)
  39. 3.9: Philip Freneau (1752-1832)
  40. 3.10: Phillis Wheatley (c. 1753–1784)
  41. 3.11: John Marrant (1755-1791)
  42. 3.12: Briton Hammon, A Narrative of the Uncommon Sufferings (1760)
  43. 3.13: The Federalist (1787-1788)- Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay
  44. 3.14: Susanna Rowson (1762-1824)
  45. 3.15: Tecumseh (c.1768-1813)
  46. 3.16: Charles Brockden Brown (1771-1810)
  47. 3.17: Washington Irving (1783-1859)
  48. 3.18: David “Davy” Crockett (1786-1836)
  49. 3.19: Catharine Maria Sedgwick (1789-1867)
  50. 4: American Renaissance - Romanticism
  51. 4.1: Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)
  52. 4.2: Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864)
  53. 4.3: Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849)
  54. 4.4: Margaret Fuller (1810–1850)
  55. 4.5: Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862)
  56. 4.6: Herman Melville (1819-1891)
  57. 4.7: Walt Whitman (1819-1892)
  58. 4.8: Joseph Smith Jr., The Book of Mormon (1830)
  59. 4.9: Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)
  60. 5: Abolition and Civil War
  61. 5.1: David Walker (1796-1830)
  62. 5.2: Sojourner Truth (c. 1797-1883)
  63. 5.3: Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
  64. 5.4: Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811-1896)
  65. 5.5: Harriet Jacobs (1813-1897)
  66. 5.6: Frederick Douglass (c.1818-1895)
  67. 5.7: Frances Ellen Watkins Harper (1825-1911)
  68. 5.8: Louisa May Alcott (1832-1888)
  69. 6: Reconstruction and Realism
  70. 6.1: Mark Twain (1835-1910)
  71. 6.2: William Dean Howells (1837-1920)
  72. 6.3: John Muir (1838-1914)
  73. 6.4: Ambrose Bierce (1842–c1914)
  74. 6.5: Ambrose Bierce (1846-c.1914)
  75. 6.6: Emma Lazarus (1849-1887)
  76. 6.7: Kate Chopin (1850-1904)
  77. 6.8: Charles Chesnutt (1858-1932)
  78. 6.9: Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860-1935)
  79. 6.10: Sui Sin Far (Edith Maude Eaton) (1865-1914)
  80. 6.11: S. Alice Callahan (1868-1894)
  81. 6.12: W.E.B. Du Bois (1868-1963)
  82. 6.13: Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872-1906)
  83. 6.14: Zitkala-Sa (1876-1938)
  84. Back Matter
  85. Index
  86. Glossary
  87. Detailed Licensing