Description
This second edition of The Harper American Literature further strengthens that commitment to innovation and excellence by presenting an innovative and highly teachable selection of major works as well as by representing the scope and diversity of literary traditions in the United States with additional selections of the highest quality.Highlighting this new edition is an even stronger representation of writings by African, American, Asian American, Native American, and women writers, along with more regional (and especially Southern) literature. Volume I also includes a generous array of presettlement writing, while Volume II expands the range of selections representing the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries as well as presents the most extensive representation of postwar and contemporary prose and poetry available in any collection of American literature.ISBN:9780065009651