American Literature

by Purves, Alan C.; Olson, Carol Booth; Cortes, Carlos E.

• ISBN13: 9780673294494
• ISBN10: 0673294498
• Edition: Student
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1997-01-01
• Publisher: Scott Foresman & Co

Table of Contents

Harrison Bergeron	xxviii
Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
UNIT 1 American Beginnings
Historical Overview: A Collision of Cultures	2	(4)
Part One: A Collision of Cultures
How the World Was Made	6	(3)
Cherokee
This Newly Created World	9	(1)
Winnebago
Dream Song	9	(1)
Chippewa
I Have Killed the Deer	10	(4)
Taos Pueblo Indian
La Relacion	14	(4)
Alvar Nunez
Cabeza de Vaca
Before They Got Thick	18	(4)
Percy Bigmouth
The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano	22	(9)
Olaudah Equiano
Of Plymouth Plantation	31	(2)
William Bradford
Offer of Help	33	(1)
Canassatego
The Life of Mary Jemison	34	(22)
Mary Jemison
Interdisciplinary Study	41	(4)
Language History	45	(1)
Writing Workshop	46	(5)
Beyond Print	51	(1)
Historical Overview: A Tragedy at Salem	52	(4)
Part Two: A Tragedy at Salem
The Diary of Samuel Sewall	56	(2)
Samuel Sewall
Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God	58	(4)
Jonathan Edwards
The Crucible	62	(96)
Arthur Miller
Interdisciplinary Study	136	(6)
Writing Workshop	142	(6)
Beyond Print	148	(2)
Looking Back	150	(4)
UNIT 2 A New Nation
Historical Overview: A Spirit of Independence	154	(4)
A Spirit of Independence
The Iroquois Constitution	158	(4)
Dekanawidah
The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin	162	(8)
Benjamin Franklin
The American Crisis	170	(2)
Thomas Paine
Speech in the Virginia Convention	172	(6)
Patrick Henry
The Declaration of Independence	178	(6)
Thomas Jefferson
Letter to John Adams	184	(2)
Abigail Adams
Petition to the Massachusetts General Assembly	186	(36)
Prince Hall
Interdisciplinary Study	188	(4)
Language History	192	(1)
Writing Workshop	193	(6)
Beyond Print	199	(2)
Looking Back	201	(2)
The Wilderness	203	(15)
Song of the Sky Loom Tewa Indian	204	(1)
The Gift Outright	205	(1)
Robert Frost
Lost	205	(1)
David Wagoner
Song of the Red Bird	206	(1)
Charles Burchfield
This Land Is Your Land	207	(1)
Woody Guthrie
The Falls of Niagara	208	(1)
Edward Hicks
Niagara Falls	209	(1)
Albert Bierstadt
Cabins in the Wilderness	210	(1)
William James
A Mountain Forest	211	(1)
Isabella Bird
The Impact of the Frontier	211	(1)
Frederick Jackson Turner
The Impact of the Frontier	211	(1)
Frederick Jackson Turner
Dead Pine Over Canyonlands	212	(1)
Carol Hoy
A Fable for Tomorrow	213	(2)
Rachel Carson
Return	215	(1)
Robinson Jeffers
America the Beautiful	215	(3)
Katherine Lee Bates
John Locke
George Catlin
William Bradford
Mary Rowlandson
Tecumseh
Thomas Cole
Erik H. Erikson
William Cullen Bryant
Charles Kuralt
Herbert Johnson
Henry David Thoreau
UNIT 3 American Classic
Historical Overview: American Romanticism	218	(4)
Part One: Romantic Truths and Terrors
Self-Reliance	222	(4)
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Walden	226	(5)
Henry David Thoreau
Civil Disobedience	231	(6)
Ain't I a Woman?	237	(3)
Sojourner Truth
The Devil and Tom Walker	240	(13)
Washington Irving
The Pit and the Pendulum	253	(15)
Edgar Allan Poe
The Raven	268	(8)
Dr. Heidegger's Experiment	276	(26)
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Interdisciplinary Study	286	(5)
Language History	291	(1)
Writing Workshop	292	(4)
Beyond Print	296	(2)
Historical Overview: The Civil War	298	(4)
Part Two: The Civil War
The Attack on Fort Sumter	302	(2)
Mary Chesnut
The Gettysburg Address	304	(4)
Abraham Lincoln
Shiloh	308	(1)
Herman Melville
The Portent	308	(4)
An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge	312	(10)
Ambrose Bierce
Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant	322	(3)
Ulysses S. Grant
Farewell Order to the Army of Northern Virginia	325	(3)
Robert E. Lee
What the Black Man Wants	328	(26)
Frederick Douglass
Interdisciplinary Study	332	(6)
Writing Workshop	338	(6)
Beyond Print	344	(2)
Looking Back	346	(4)
UNIT 4 Expanding America
Historical Overview: A Changing Society	350	(4)
Part One: Letters to the Wrold
This is my letter to the World	354	(1)
Emily Dickinson
Much Madness is divinest Sense	354	(1)
The Soul selects her own Society	354	(3)
Because I could not stop for Death	357	(1)
A Bird came down the Walk	357	(4)
I Hear America Singing	361	(1)
Walt Whitman
What is the Grass? from Song of Myself	362	(2)
There Was a Child Went Forth	364	(6)
Sympathy	370	(1)
Paul Laurence Dunbar
We Wear the Mask	371	(3)
To the Maiden	374	(1)
Stephen Crane
The Wayfarer	374	(1)
I Saw a Man Pursuing the Horizon	375	(1)
A Man Said to the Universe	375	(15)
Interdisciplinary Study	377	(4)
Writing Workshop	381	(4)
Beyond Print	385	(1)
Historical Overview: The Frontier	386	(4)
Part Two: The Frontier
The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County	390	(8)
Mark Twain
El Corrido de Gregorio Cortez	398	(2)
Americo Paredes
Gold Mountain Poems	400	(3)
Anonymous
My Heart Feels Like Bursting	403	(4)
Satanta
A Wagner Matinee	407	(43)
Willa Cather
Interdisciplinary Study	416	(6)
Language History	422	(1)
Writing Workshop	423	(4)
Beyond Print	427	(2)
Looking Back	429	(2)
The Journey	431	(15)
Night Journey	432	(2)
Theodore Roethke
Madam Knight Travels to New York	434	(1)
Sarah Kemble Knight
The Grapes of Wrath	435	(1)
John Steinbeck
The Cowards Never Started, and the Weak Died Along the Way	436	(1)
Lydia Allen Rudd
The Heirloom	437	(1)
Tom Lovell
Lost Travelers	437	(1)
Ronald Reagan
The Steerage	438	(2)
Alfred Stieglitz
The Moth and the Star	440	(1)
James Thurber
Speed	440	(1)
May Swenson
Pearblossom Hwy., 11--18th April 1986	441	(1)
David Hockney
Homesick Blues	442	(1)
Langston Hughes
The Migration of the Negro series, No. 1	442	(1)
Jacob Lawrence
Indian Boarding School: The Runaways	443	(3)
Louise Erdrich
N. Scott Momaday
Abraham Lincoln
Thomas Hart Benton
William Least Heat Moon
Eddy Harris
Mark Twain
Cesar Chavez
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
James Lovell
Emma Lazarus
UNIT 5 Breaking the Mold
Historical Overview: Stretching the Limits	446	(4)
Part One: Beyond the Limits
The Story of an Hour	450	(5)
Kate Chopin
Trifles	455	(13)
Susan Glaspell
The Revolt of ``Mother''	468	(15)
Mary E. Wilkins Freeman
Crusade for Justice	483	(9)
Ida B. Wells-Barnett
The Spring and the Fall	492	(1)
Edna St. Vincent Millay
On Thought in Harness	493	(19)
Interdisciplinary Study	495	(5)
Language History	500	(1)
Writing Workshop	501	(5)
Beyond Print	506	(2)
Historical Overview: A Cultural Revolution	508	(4)
Part Two: The Harlem Renaissance
Harlem: The Culture Capital	512	(12)
James Weldon Johnson
A Black Man Talks of Reaping	524	(1)
Arna Bontemps
If We Must Die	525	(1)
Claude McKay
The Negro Speaks of Rivers	526	(1)
Langston Hughes
Harlem Wine	526	(1)
Countee Cullen
Youth	527	(1)
Langston Hughes
Ma Rainey	528	(5)
Sterling A. Brown
How It Feels to Be Colored Me	533	(35)
Zora Neale Hurston
Interdisciplinary Study	538	(5)
Writing Workshop	543	(5)
Beyond Print	548	(1)
Looking Back	549	(2)
The Search for Equality	551	(13)
15th, 19th, and 26th amendments	552	(1)
Stump Speaking	553	(1)
George Caleb Bingham
Follow the Drinking Gourd	554	(1)
The Price of Freedom	554	(1)
Lewis Douglass
Tragic Prelude	555	(1)
John Steuart Curry
There Are No Laundries in China	556	(1)
Booker T. Washington and W. E. B. DuBois Debate	556	(1)
The Promised Land	557	(1)
Mary Antin
Raise Less Corn and More Hell!	558	(1)
Mary Elizabeth Lease
Which Side Are You On?	558	(1)
Florence Reece
The American Working Man of the Future	558	(1)
Frederick Opper
The Feeling of Solidarity	559	(1)
Roberto Acuna
Viva Chavez	559	(1)
Paul Davis
The Indian and the Buffalo	560	(1)
Jim Domke
Return to Wounded Knee	560	(1)
Mary Crow Dog
Affirmative Action: Pro and Con	561	(3)
Roger Wilkins
Shelby Steele
Thomas Jefferson
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Alexis de Tocqueville
Hector St. Jean de Crevecoeur
Eleanor Roosevelt
UNIT 6 Modern Dilemmas
Historical Overview: Between the Wars	564	(4)
Part One: Lost in a Crowd
The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock	568	(8)
T. S. Eliot
Richard Cory	576	(1)
Edwin Arlington Robinson
1(a	577	(3)
E. E. Cummings
In Another Country	580	(6)
Ernest Hemingway
Winter Dreams	586	(19)
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Black Boy	605	(6)
Richard Wright
The Jilting of Granny Weatherall	611	(25)
Katherine Anne Porter
Interdisciplinary Study	620	(4)
Language History	624	(1)
Writing Workshop	625	(6)
Beyond Print	631	(1)
Historical Overview: The Strength of Tradition	632	(4)
Part Two: The Strength of Tradition
Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening	636	(1)
Robert Frost
Mending Wall	637	(2)
Birches	639	(5)
The Tall Men	644	(14)
William Faulkner
Blue Winds Dancing	658	(9)
Thomas S. Whitecloud
A Worn Path	667	(9)
Eudora Welty
The Leader of the People	676	(14)
John Steinbeck
Lord Byron's Love Letter	690	(30)
Tennessee Williams
Interdisciplinary Study	699	(5)
Writing Workshop	704	(6)
Beyond Print	710	(2)
Looking Back	712	(4)
UNIT 7 Years of Change
Historical Overview: Postwar Culture	716	(4)
Part One: Person to Person
The Life You Save May Be Your Own	720	(12)
Flannery O'Connor
I Stand Here Ironing	732	(10)
Tillie Olsen
Separating	742	(12)
John Updike
The Woman Warrior	754	(6)
Maxine Hong Kingston
Everyday Use	760	(11)
Alice Walker
Mirror	771	(1)
Sylvia Plath
One Art	772	(1)
Elizabeth Bishop
Legacies	773	(1)
Nikki Giovanni
Leaves	774	(1)
Hamod
To Jesus Villanueva, with Love	775	(19)
Alma Luz Villanueva
Interdisciplinary Study	779	(5)
Writing Workshop	784	(5)
Beyond Print	789	(1)
Historical Overview: A Stormy Era	790	(4)
Part Two: In the Midst of Struggle...
To Be Young, Gifted and Black	794	(6)
Lorraine Hansberry
Letter from a Birmingham Jail	800	(6)
Martin Luther King, Jr.
The Autobiography of Malcolm X	806	(6)
Malcolm X
On the Rainy River	812	(16)
Tim O'Brien
Where the Ashes Are	828	(10)
Nguyen Qui Du'c
Village	838	(28)
Estela Portillo Trambley
Interdisciplinary Study	846	(5)
Language History	851	(1)
Writing Workshop	852	(5)
Beyond Print	857	(1)
Looking Back	858	(4)
UNIT 8 American Voices Today
Historical Overview: Building Unity on Diversity	862	(4)
Citizens of Tomorrow
Teenage Wasteland	866	(10)
Anne Tyler
Gary Keillor	876	(12)
Garrison Keillor
Salvador Late or Early	888	(5)
Sandra Cisneros
Coca-Cola and Coco Frio	893	(1)
Martin Espada
Lost Sister	894	(2)
Cathy Song
Naming Myself	896	(2)
Barbara Kingsolver
Red Wagons	898	(4)
Ana Castillo
Mother Tongue	902	(9)
Amy Tan
This Is What It Means to Say Phoenix, Arizona	911	(12)
Sherman Alexie
Top of the Food Chain	923	(7)
T. Coraghessan Boyle
A Blizzard Under Blue Sky	930	(6)
Pam Houston
The Janitor	936	(29)
August Wilson
Interdisciplinary Study	939	(6)
Language History	945	(1)
Writing Workshop	946	(5)
Beyond Print	951	(2)
Looking Back	953	(2)
The Media	955	(10)
Ballyhoo	956	(1)
Frederick Lewis Allen
Media Blitz	957	(1)
Ruben Martinez
``Yellow Journalism and the Spanish-American War''	958	(1)
James Creelman
William Randolph Hearst as ``The Yellow Kid''	959	(1)
``Let Us Prey''	959	(1)
Thomas Nast
Newsstand in Omaha, Nebraska, 1938	960	(1)
John Vauhon
Supermarket Tabloids	961	(1)
Fanzines	962	(1)
Talk Shows	963	(1)
Video Games	964	(1)
The Internet	965
Andy Warhol
Will Rogers
William Lloyd Garrison
Pagan Kennedy
Geraldo Rivera