The Bedford Anthology of American Literature, Volume One

by Susan Belasco; Linck Johnson

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The Bedford Anthology of American Literature, Volume One

Beginnings to the Civil War

ISBN-10: 0-312-48299-X
ISBN-13: 978-0-312-48299-2
Paper Text, 1376 pages

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Susan Belasco
University of Nebraska, Lincoln
Linck Johnson
Colgate University

The teachable alternative

Prepared by recognized scholars and devoted teachers, The Bedford Anthology of American Literature brings the canon of American literature down to a manageable size. Half the length of other leading anthologies, and offered at a much lower price, the anthology reflects years of firsthand experience in the classroom and extensive research on what instructors are actually teaching in the survey course today. Prepared expressly for students and informed by the new understandings of and approaches to American literature that have emerged during the last 30 years, the anthology is lavishly illustrated and features several pedagogical innovations that help students engage with the literature.

"I admire this anthology a great deal. But what recommends it, finally, is not simply its economies but the acuity of its choices, the unobtrusive depth of its learning, and its pedagogical and historical imaginativeness."
— Richard Millington, Smith College