The Heath Anthology of American Literature

by Paul Lauter

066932972X

In its first edition, this two-volume survey text, employing the work and ideas of hundreds of specialists, expanded the canon of American literature in ways that have changed how this course is taught in colleges across the country. Works by women, people of color, and various minorities were thoroughly integrated with the established master works in the field. The second edition adds the voices of more than forty new writers to its pages in order to bring students the richest, most complete, most flexible anthology of its kind. From Arthur Miller's The Crucible to proslavery tales from the antebellum South, from the works of Rita Dove, Sandra Cisneros, and David Henry Hwang to a collection of political poetry from the 1930s, the new material included in this text allows American literature to be taught from innumerable provocative and challenging perspectives.

The Heath Anthology has been thoroughly reorganized and updated, and the program of ancillaries has been expanded. In addition to the critically acclaimed Instructor's Guide a separate volume of work by Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson can be packaged with the second volume of the text for instructors who wish to cover these poets in their post-Civil War courses. Syllabus Builder, an innovative pedagogical tool for instructors, has been revised and made available for both Macintosh and IBM users. Other primary works, software programs, and scholarly apparatus are also available.

2965 pages, Paperback

Published January 1, 1994

About the author

Paul Lauter (b. 1932) is Allan K. and Gwendolyn Miles Smith Professor of Literature at Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut. He has served as President of the American Studies Association (of the United States), and he is General Editor of the groundbreaking Heath Anthology of American Literature, now in its sixth edition.