American literature /  
edited by William E. Cain 
 - New York :  Penguin Academics : Pearson/Longman,  c2004. 
 - xxviii, 1553 pages :  21 cm. 
 -  volume 2 .
<br/><br/>Includes index. 
<br/><br/>Christopher Columbus (1451-1506) -- Bartolom̌ de las Casas (1484-1566) -- Iroquois creation story -- John Smith (1580-1631) -- William Bradford (1590-1657) -- John Winthrop (1588-1649) -- Anne Bradstreet (1612-1672) -- Mary Rowlandson (1635-1711) -- Edward Taylor (1642?-1729) -- Cotton Mather (1663-1728) -- Jonathan Edwards (1703-1758) -- Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) -- John Woolman (1720-1772) -- J. Hector St. John de Cr̈vecoeur (1735-1813) -- John Adams (1735-1826) -- Thomas Paine (1737-1809) -- Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826) -- James Madison (1751-1836) -- Phillip Freneau (1752-1832) -- Phillis Wheatley (1753-1784) -- Washington Irving (1783-1859) -- James Fenimore Cooper (1789-1851)<br/>Cherokee memorial -- Lydia Huntley Sigourney (1791-1865) -- William Cullen Bryant (1794-1878) -- William Apess (1798-1839) -- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) -- Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864) -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882) -- Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849) -- Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865) -- Margaret Fuller (1810-1850) -- Harriet Beecher -- Stowe (1811-1896) -- Harriet Jacobs (1813-1897) -- Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) -- Frederick Douglass (1818-1895) -- Herman Melville (1819-1891) -- Walt Whitman (1819-1892) -- Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) -- Rebecca Harding Davis (1831-1910) -- Chronology of works and events that shaped American literature 1492 to 1870 . 
<br/><br/> Part of the "Penguin Academics" series, this work offers a range of selections. It uses a "Letter to the Reader" format to give students the contextual information they need for various major historical periods. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0321116232  
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>AMERICAN LITERATURE<br/>LITERARY COLLECTION<br/>UNITED STATES LITERARY COLLECTIONS
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>PS 507 .A57 2004