American literature : a Prentice Hall anthology / Emory Elliott [and three others] - New Jersey : Prentice-Hall, c1991 - xxv, 2095 pages ; 23 cm. - Volume 1 .

Includes index.

Part1. The European Colonization of the Americas: Through the Middle 18th Century -- Part2. The Age of Democratic Revolution: The Late 18th Century -- Part3. Progress and Crisis: The Early to Middle 19th Century .

During the past 20 years, the field of American literature has been going through one of the most exciting periods in its development as a discipline. Todays literature courses and anthologies presents these earlier writings as more accurate beginnings of American Literature.

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AMERICAN LITERATURE

PS 507 .A44 1991