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American Literature: 211 Items American Literature: 211 items Beginnings to 1700: 1. The four voyages of Christopher Columbus; being his own log-book, letters and dispatches with connecting narrative drawn from the Life of the Admiral by his son Hernando Colon and other contemporary historians / ed. and trans. [from MSS] by J. M. Cohen. Harmondsworth, Penguin, 1969. Call #: E 118 .C6613 1969 2. Benjamin Franklin's Autobiography, 1st ed./ ed. J. A. Leo Lamay and P. M. Zall. New York: W. W. Norton & Co., 1986 Call #: E 302 .6 .F7 1986a 3. The invasion of America: Indians, colonialism, and the cant of conquest / by Francis Jennings. New York: Norton, 1976, c1975. Call #: F 7 .J46 1976 4. The glorious scoundrel: A biography of Captain John Smith / by Noel B. Gerson. New York: Dodd, Mead, c1978 Call #: F 229 .S7 G47 1978 5. Critical approaches to American literature (vols. 1-2) / Edited by Ray B. Browne & Martin Light. New York: Crowell, 1965 Call #: PS 121 .B77 1965 v.1/v.2 6. American Lazarus: Religion and the rise of African-American and Native American literatures / Joanna Brooks. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2003 Call #: PS 153 .N5 B668 2003 7. The Puritan oligarchy: the founding of American civilization / Thomas Jefferson Wertenbaker. New York: C. Scribner's Sons, 1947 Call #: F 67 .W4 1947 8. The Puritans, vols. 1-2/Perry Miller and Thomas H. Johnson. New York: Harper & Row, 1963 Call #: PS 531 .M5 1963 v.1/v.2 9. The Life and Times of Cotton Mather: Columbia University Press Morningside ed. /Kenneth Silverman. New York: Columbia University Press, 1985, c1984 Call #: F 67 .M43 S57 1984 10. The slave ship: a human history / Marcus Rediker. New York: Viking, 2007 Call #: HT 1322 .R42 2007 11. Messy beginnings: postcoloniality and early American studies / ed. Malini Johar Schueller, Edward Watts. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, c2003 Call #: E 188 .5 .M39 2003 12. Playing Cowboys and Indians: Tricksters and the myth of the American West / Hilda L. Silva Martínez, 2013 Call #: PS 3568 .E365 Z865 2013 13. Seeing red: Anger, sentimentality, and American Indians / Cari M. Carpenter. Columbus: Ohio State University Press, c2008 Call #: PS 153 .I52 C37 2008 14. The transatlantic Indian, 1776-1930 / Kate Flint. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2008 Call #: PR 151 .I53 F57 2009 15. Mixed bloods and other crosses: Rethinking American literature from the Revolution to the Culture Wars / Betsy Erkkila. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, c2005 Call #: PS 169 .S57 E75 2005 16. Native American Representations: First encounters, distorted images, and literary appropriations / ed. Gretchen M. Bataille. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, c2001 Call #: E 98 .P99 N38 2001 17. Contemporary American Indian writing: Unsettling literature / Dee Horne. New York: Peter Lang, c1999 Call #: PS 153 .I52 H67 1999 18. Fantasies of the Master Race: Literature, cinema and the colonization of American Indians / Ward Churchill. San Francisco, Ca.: City Light Books, 1998 Call #: PN 56 .3 .I6 C49 1998 19. Native American Identities: From stereotype to archetype in art and literature / Scott B. Vickers. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, c1998 Call #: E 98 .E85 V53 1998 20. Traditional literatures of the American Indian: Texts and interpretations; 2 nd edition / comp. and ed. Karl Kroeber. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, c1997 Call #: PM 151 .T73 1997 21. The Turn to the Native: Studies in criticism and culture / Arnold Krupat. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, c1996 Call #: PS 153 .I52 K77 1996 22. Amerindian Images and the Legacy of Columbus /ed. René Jara and Nicholas Spadaccini. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1992 Call #: E 58.A532 1992 23. The Indians of Thoreau: Selections from the Indian notebooks, 1st ed. / ed. Richard F. Fleck. Albuquerque, N. M.: Hummingbird Press, 1974 Call #: E 77 .T47 1974 24. The cultural geography of colonial American literatures: Empire, travel, modernity. /Ralph Bauer. Cambridge: New York: Cambridge UP, 2003 Call #: E 143 .B33 2003 25. The Civil War Day by Day: An Almanac/ E. B. Long and Barbara Long. New York: Da Capo Press, 1985 Call #: E 468 .3 .L6 26. A Black Woman’s Civil War Memoirs: Reminisces of my life in camp with the 33 rd U.S. Colored Troops, late 1 st South Carolina Volunteers /Susie King Taylor; ed. Patricia Romero; introd. Willie Lee Rose. New York: M. Wiener Pub., 2007 Call #: E 492 .9 T3 2007 33 rd 27. The American Crucible: Slavery, Emancipation and Human Rights /Robin Blackwell, 2011 Call #: HT 1048 B558 2011 1820-1865: 1. The colonizer abroad: American writers on foreign soil, 1846-1912 / Christopher Mark McBride. New York: Routledge, 2004 Call #: PS 366 .T73 M38 2004 2. Woman in the nineteenth century / Margaret Fuller; introd. Bernard Rosenthal. New York: Norton 1971. Call #: HQ 1154 .O8 1971 3. Margaret Fuller: From Transcendentalism to revolution / Paula Blanchard; foreword by Carolyn G. Heilbrun. Reading, Mass.: Addison-Wesley Pub. Co., c1987 Call #: PS 2506 .B57 1987 4. Poganuc people: Their loves and lives / Harriet Beecher Stowe. Objective Systems, 2006. ONLINE SOURCE. Call #: PZ3.S89 Po 2006 5. Harriet Beecher Stowe: A life / Joan D. Hedrick. New York: Oxford University Press, 1995. Call #: PS 2956 .H43 1995 6. Washington Irving: An American original / Brian Jay Jones. New York: Arcade Pub.: Distributed by Hachette Book Group USA, c2008 Call #: PS 2081 .J66 2008 7. Tales of the Alhambra /Washington Irving; ed. Miguel Sánchez. Madrid (Móstoles): Granada, Grefol, S.A., 1981 Call #: PS 2056 .A1 8. Rip van Winkle and The Legend of Sleepy Hollow /Washington Irving; ed. and introd. Haskell Springer. Tarrytown, New York: Sleepy Hollow Restoration Books, 1974 Call #: PS 2068 .A1 1974 9. The Lasting of the Mohicans: History of an American myth / Martin Barker and Roger Sabin. Jackson: Mississippi UP, 1995 Call #: PS 1408 .B37 1996 10. New Essays on Cooper's The Lasting of the Mohicans /ed. H. Daniel Peck. Cambridge (UK); New York: Cambridge UP, 1992 Call #: PS 1408 .N48 1992 11. Cooper's Caribbean: red skin, white masks in The Last of the Mohicans / John Morsellino, 2000 Call #: PS 1438 .M67 2000 12. Cooper's Americans /Kay Seymour House. Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 1965 Call #: PS 1439 .H6 1965 13. The Scarlet Letter: A Norton Critical Edition, 2nd ed. / Nathaniel Hawthorne; ed. Sculley Bradley. New York: W. W. Norton & Co., 1978 Call #: PS 1868 .A1 1978 14. Young Goodman Brown /Nathaniel Hawthorne; ed. Thomas E. Connolly. Columbus, OH: C. E. Merrill, 1968 Call #: PS 1872 .Y63 C6 1968 15. The Recognition of Nathaniel Hawthorne: Selected Criticism since 1828 /B. Bernard Cohen. Ann Arbor: Michigan UP, 1969 Call #: PS 1881 .C56 16. The House of the Seven Gables/Nathaniel Hawthorne, 4th ed. / ed. Seymour L. Gross. New York: W. W. Norton & Co., 1967 Call #: PS 1881 .H318 H082 1967 17. Salem is my dwelling place: A life of Nathaniel Hawthorne, 1st ed . /Edwin Haviland Miller. Iowa: Iowa UP, 1991 Call #: PS 1881 .M48 1991 18. "A tribe of unrealities": an example of Hawthorne's influence on the 20th century magical realist / by Inés Patricia Vassos, 1996 Call #: PS 1888 .V37 1996 19. Nathaniel Hawthorne: identity and knowledge / Jac Tharpe, with a preface by Harry T. Moore. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1967 Call #: PS 1888 .T53 1967 20. The narrative and legacy of Frederick Douglass and Linda Brent / José A. Palm Silva, 2012 Call #: E 449 .D75 P35 2012 21. Henry David Thoreau: a profile, 1 st ed . / ed. Walter Harding. New York: Hill and Wang, 1971 Call #: B931.T44 H37 1971 22. The Heart of Thoreau’s Journals /ed. Odell Shepard. New York: Dover, 1961 Call #: PS 3035 .A25 1961 23. Henry David Thoreau: A life of the mind/Robert D. Richardson, Jr. Berkeley: California UP, 1986 Call #: PS 3035 .R53 1986 24. Neighbor Thoreau’s Critical Humor /J. Golden Taylor. Logan: Utah State University, 1973 Call #: PS 3035 .T3 1973 25. New Approaches to Thoreau: A symposium / William Bysshe Stein. Transcendental Books, 1969 Call #: PS 3054 .N4 26. Louisa May Alcott and Charlotte Brontë: Transatlantic translations / Christine Doyle. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, c2000 Call #: PS 1018 .D69 2000 27. Little Women and the Feminist Imagination: Criticism, controversy, personal essays / ed. Janice M. Alberghene, Beverly Lyon Clark. New York: Garland Pub., 1999 Call #: PS 1017 .L53 L68 1999 28. The Letters of Ralph Waldo Emerson/ed. Ralph L. Rusk. New York: Columbia UP, 1939. Call #: PS 1617 LET R vol.1 1813-1835/vol. 2 1836-1841/vol. 3 1842-1847/vol. 4 1848- 1855/vol. 5 1856-1867/vol. 6 1868-1881 29. The Heart of Emerson's Journals /ed. Bliss Perry. New York: Dover Publications, 1958 Call #: PS 1631.A3 1958 30. The American Newness: Culture and Politics in the Age of Emerson /Irving Howe. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard UP, 1986 Call #: PS 1633 .H6 1986 31. Emerson and Literary Change /David T. Porter. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard UP, 1978 Call #: PS 1642 .A34 P6 32. The American Face of Edgar Allan Poe /ed. Shawn Rosenheim and Stephen Rachman. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 1995 Call #: PS 2638 .A55 1995 33. Poe: A collection of critical essays / ed. Robert Regan. Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice- Hall, 1967 Call #: PS 2631 .R38 1967 34. Moby-Dick: A Norton Critical Edition /Herman Melville; ed. Harrison Hayford and Hershel Parker. New York: W. W. Norton & Co., 1976 PS 2384 Mo 85 1976 35. The Trying-out of Moby Dick /Howard Paton Vincent. Carbondale: South Illinois UP, 1965 Call #: PS 2384 .M62 V5 1865-1914: 1. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, 1 st ed. / by Samuel Langhorne Clemens. introd. and bibliography prepared by Hamlin Hill. San Francisco: Chandler Pub.
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