American Lives

by Sayre, Robert F.

• ISBN13: 9780299142445
• ISBN10: 0299142442
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1994-10-15
• Publisher: Univ of Wisconsin Pr

Summary

The Title, American Lives, comes from a course which Wayne Prophet and I established in the University of Iowa UndergraduateCore Curriculum in the 1970s--a pioneering effort in both the study of autobiography and the expanding of the American literary canon.

Table of Contents

Preface
Note on the Selection of Texts
Introduction: On Reading and Writing Autobiography	p. 3
Explorers, Governors, Pilgrims, and Captives, 1607-1700	p. 19
from A True Relation and The General Historie of Virginia	p. 27
To my Dear Children and In reference to her Children	p. 39
from A True History of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson	p. 46
from the Diary	p. 62
Great Awakenings, New Individuals, 1700-1775	p. 69
The Journal of Madam Knight	p. 77
Some Account of the Fore Part of the Life of Elizabeth Ashbridge	p. 99
Personal Narrative	p. 125
from The Spiritual Travels of Nathan Cole	p. 139
from the Journal of C. W., Clerk, Itinerant Minister in South Carolina	p. 151
National Identities: Patriots, Promoters, and Pretenders, 1776-1837	p. 173
from The Narrative of Colonel Ethan Allen's Captivity	p. 181
from Selected Letters, Diary and Autobiography of John Adams, and Discourses on Davila	p. 191
The Adventures of Col. Daniel Boon	p. 211
Narratives of the Revolution	p. 227
from Memoirs of Stephen Burroughs	p. 238
from A New Home - Who'll Follow?	p. 250
from Life of MA-KA-TAI-ME-SHE-KIA-KIAK	p. 261
Self-Liberators, 1836-1865	p. 273
The Life and Religious Experience of Jarena Lee, A Coloured Lady	p. 281
from The American Scholar, The Poet, and History	p. 299
from Leaves from a Slave's Journal of Life	p. 312
from Mariana	p. 321
from Fern Leaves from Fanny's Portfolio	p. 329
from The Life of P. T. Barnum and Struggles and Triumphs	p. 338
To Jesse W. Fell, Enclosing Autobiography	p. 350
from Letters of Life	p. 353
Survivors and Self-Teachers, 1865-1915	p. 367
from The Soldier's Story	p. 375
from Specimen Days	p. 383
from Diary during the War	p. 394
from Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant	p. 409
from Life and Times of Frederick Douglass	p. 418
Mountain Friends	p. 426
How I Served My Apprenticeship	p. 435
Lives in Progress, 1900-1935	p. 443
What Life Means to Me	p. 451
The Handicapped	p. 459
Initiation	p. 472
The World and the University	p. 483
The Shadow of Years	p. 493
I Refuse to Serve	p. 504
Love and Marriage and The Breakdown	p. 515
Experimental Lives, 1920-1960	p. 535
The Crack-Up	p. 545
from The Gradual Making of "The Making of Americans"	p. 558
from Let Us Now Praise Famous Men	p. 564
from The God That Failed	p. 571
Having a Baby and Love Overflows	p. 582
from The Diary of Anais Nin	p. 597
Quests for Identity, 1960-	p. 609
The Discovery of What It Means to Be an American	p. 621
Kaddish	p. 627
from The Way to Rainy Mountain and The Names	p. 647
No Name Woman	p. 654
Beyond Manzanar	p. 665
The Making of a Marginal Farm	p. 677
from Complexion	p. 686
from An American Childhood	p. 691
from Black Is a Woman's Color	p. 700
A Reading List of Other American Autobiographies	p. 711
Select Bibliography	p. 715
Index	p. 723
Titles in Wisconsin Studies in American Autobiography	p. 733
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