The Heath Anthology of American Literature

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i v Part I
Contents
xv Pedagogical Introduction
xix Course Planning and The Heath Anthology of
American Literature: Challenges and
Strategies
xxix Using The Heath Anthology of American
Literature
Website
Pedagogical Introduction: Colonial Period to 1700
1
5 Native American Oral Literatures
8 Native American Oral Narrative
11 Native American Oral Poetry
19 Cluster: America in the European Imagination
25 New Spain
30 Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca (1490?–1556?)
36 Cluster: Cultural Encounters: A Critical
Survey
39 New France
43 Chesapeake
43 Thomas Harriot (1560–1621)
45 Edward Maria Wingfield (1560?–1613?)
47 John Smith (1580–1631)
49 Richard Frethorne (fl. 1623)
51 Nathaniel Bacon (1647–1677)
54 James Revel (after 1640s–?)
56 New England
56 Thomas Morton (1579?–1647?)
58 John Winthrop (1588–1649)
60 William Bradford (1590–1657)
64 Roger Williams (1603?–1683)
69 Thomas Shepard (1605–1649)
76 Anne Bradstreet (1612?–1672)
80 Michael Wigglesworth (1631–1705)
84 The Bay Psalm Book (1640), The New England Primer (1683?)
87 Mary White Rowlandson (Talcott) (1637?–1711)
89 Edward Taylor (1642?–1729)
98 Samuel Sewall (1652–1730)
102 Cotton Mather (1663–1728)
106 John Williams (1664–1729)
110 A Sheaf of Seventeenth-Century Anglo-
American Poetry
Pedagogical Introduction: Eighteenth Century
113
116 Settlement and Religion
116 Sarah Kemble Knight (1666–1727)
119 Louis Armand de Lom d’Arce, Baron de Lahontan (1666–1715)
121 William Byrd II (1674–1744)
125 Jonathan Edwards (1703–1758)
127 Elizabeth Ashbridge (1713–1755)
130 John Woolman (1720–1772)
132 Francisco Palou (1723–1789)
134 A Sheaf of Eighteenth-Century Anglo-
American Poetry
137 Voices of Revolution and Nationalism
137 Handsome Lake (Seneca) (1735–1815)
138 Benjamin Franklin (1706–1790)
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144 Mercy Otis Warren (1728–1814)
147 J. Hector St. John de Crèvecoeur (1735–1813)
149 Thomas Paine (1737–1809)
150 John Adams (1735–1826) and Abigail Adams (1744–1818)
152 Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826)
156 Federalist and Anti-Federalist Contentions
158 Toussaint L’Ouverture (1744?–1803)
162 Patriot and Loyalist Songs and Ballads
165 Contested Visions, American Voices
165 Jupiter Hammon (1711–1806?)
167 James Grainger (1721?–1766)
171 Samson Occom (Mohegan) (1723–1792)
175 Briton Hammon (fl. 1760)
177 Prince Hall (1735?–1807)
178 Olaudah Equiano (1745–1797)
182 Judith Sargent Murray (1751–1820)
185 Ann Eliza Bleecker (1752–1783)
187 Philip Freneau (1752–1832)
189 Timothy Dwight (1752–1817)
192 Phillis Wheatley (1753–1784)
194 Lemuel Haynes (1753–1833)
195 Joel Barlow (1754–1812)
198 Royall Tyler (1757–1826)
201 Hendrick Aupaumut (Mahican) (1757–1830)
203 Hannah Webster Foster (1758–1840)
207 Susanna Haswell Rowson (1762–1824)
213 Charles Brockden Brown (1771–1810)
Pedagogical Introduction: Early Nineteenth
Century:
1800–1865 217
222 Native America
222 Teaching the Texts in “Native America”
233 Jane Johnston Schoolcraft (Ojibwa) (1800–1841)
234 Major George Lowrey (Cherokee) (c. 1770–1852)
241 Elias Boudinot (Cherokee) (c. 1802–1839)
242 John Ross et al. (Cherokee)
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243 William Apess (Pequot) (1798–?)
244 John Wannuaucon Quinney (Mahican) (1797–1855)
248 Seattle (Duwamish) (1786–1866)
249 George Copway (Kah-ge-ga-gah-bowh; Ojibwa) (1818–1869)
253 John Rollin Ridge (Cherokee) (1827–1867)
254 Spanish America
254 Tales from the Hispanic Southwest
255 Lorenzo de Zavala (1788–1836)
257 Narratives from the Mexican and
Early American Southwest
257 Pio Pico (1801–1894)
257 Mariano Guadalupe Vallejo (1808–1890)
259 Richard Henry Dana Jr. (1815–1882)
259 Alfred Robinson (1806–1895)
259 Josiah Gregg (1806–1850)
260 Frederick Law Olmsted (1822–1903)
261 The Cultures of New England
261 Lydia Howard Huntley Sigourney (1791–1865)
264 Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
268 John Greenleaf Whittier (1807–1892)
272 Sarah Margaret Fuller (1810–1850)
274 Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
277 Race, Slavery, and the Invention of the
“South”
277 David Walker (1785–1830)
279 William Lloyd Garrison (1805–1879)
282 Lydia Maria Child (1802–1880)
284 Angelina Grimké (1805–1879),
Sarah Moore Grimké (1792–1873)
287 Henry Highland Garnet (1815–1882)
289 Frederick Douglass (1818–1895)
291 Nancy Gardner Prince (1799–1859?)
294 Caroline Lee Hentz (1800–1856)
296 George Fitzhugh (1804–1881)
299 Frances Ellen Watkins Harper (1825–1911)
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299 Thomas Wentworth Higginson (1823–1911)
302 Harriet Ann Jacobs (1813–1897)
305 Mary Boykin Chesnut (1823–1886)
307 Wendell Phillips (1811–1884)
310 Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865)
312 Literature and the “Woman Question”
312 Sarah Moore Grimké (1792–1873)
313 Sojourner Truth (c. 1797–1883)
315 Fanny Fern (Sara Willis Parton) (1811–1872)
318 Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815–1902)
321 The Development of Narrative
321 Cluster: Humor of the Old Southwest
323 Washington Irving (1783–1859)
326 James Fenimore Cooper (1789–1851)
329 Catharine Maria Sedgwick (1789–1867)
332 Caroline Kirkland (1801–1864)
335 Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804–1864)
340 Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849)
344 Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811–1896)
348 William Wells Brown (1815–1884)
352 Herman Melville (1819–1891)
371 Alice Cary (1820–1871)
375 Elizabeth Stoddard (1823–1902)
377 Rebecca Harding Davis (1831–1910)
380 The Emergence of American Poetic Voices
380 Songs and Ballads
382 William Cullen Bryant (1794–1878)
384 Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807–1882)
386 Frances Sargent Locke Osgood (1811–1850)
388 Walt Whitman (1819–1892)
391 Emily Dickinson (1830–1886)
Pedagogical Introduction: Late Nineteenth Century:
1865–1910 399
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405 Nation, Regions, Borders
405 African-American Folktales
408 Samuel Langhorne Clemens (Mark Twain) (1835–1910)
413 Joel Chandler Harris (1848–1908)
416 Charles Waddell Chesnutt (1858–1932)
417 Cluster: Literacy, Literature, and Democracy
in Postbellum America
419 Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872–1906)
422 George Washington Cable (1844–1925)
426 Grace King (1852–1932)
428 Alice Dunbar-Nelson (1875–1935)
431 Ghost Dance Songs
431 Alexander Lawrence Posey (Creek) (1873–1908)
432 John Milton Oskison (Cherokee) (1874–1947)
433 Corridos
434 María Amparo Ruiz de Burton (1832–1895)
438 William Dean Howells (1837–1920)
441 Henry James (1843–1916)
444 Kate Chopin (1851–1904)
448 Ambrose Bierce (1842–1914?)
450 Hamlin Garland (1860–1940)
453 Stephen Crane (1871–1900)
456 Jack London (1876–1916)
458 Critical Visions of Postbellum America
458 Standing Bear (Machunazha Ponca) (1829–1908)
460 Charles Alexander Eastman (Sioux) (1858–1939)
463 Sarah Winnemucca (Thocmetony) (c. 1844–1891)
467 Frances Ellen Watkins Harper (1825–1911)
470 Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860–1935)
473 Finley Peter Dunne (1867–1936)
475 Upton Sinclair (1878–1968)
478 Henry Adams (1838–1918)
479 Developments in Women's Writing
479 Julia A. J. Foote (1823–1900)
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481 Louisa May Alcott (1832–1888)
483 Harriet Prescott Spofford (1835–1921)
486 Constance Fenimore Woolson (1840–1894)
489 Sarah Orne Jewett (1849–1909)
492 Mary E. Wilkins Freeman (1852–1930)
498 Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins (1859–1930)
501 A Sheaf of Poetry by Late-Nineteenth-
Century
American Women
505 The Making of “Americans”
505 Abraham Cahan (1860–1951)
507 Edith Maud Eaton (Sui-Sin Far) (1865–1914)
508 Onoto Watanna (Winifred Eaton) (1875–1954)
513 Mary Austin (1868–1934)
515 Gertrude Bonnin (Zitkala-Sa) (Sioux) (1876–1938)
519 Mary Antin (1881–1949)
521 José Martí (1853–1895)
Pedagogical Introduction: Modern Period:
1910–1945 525
530 Toward the Modern Age
530 Booker Taliaferro Washington (1856–1915)
532 W. E. B. Du Bois (1868–1963)
533 James Weldon Johnson (1871–1938)
538 Edwin Arlington Robinson (1869–1935)
540 Ellen Glasgow (1873–1945)
543 Edith Wharton (1862–1937)
546 Edgar Lee Masters (1869–1950)
548 Willa Cather (1873–1947)
549 Susan Glaspell (1876–1948)
552 Robinson Jeffers (1887–1962)
556 Robert Frost (1874–1963)
558 Sherwood Anderson (1876–1941)
562 Theodore Dreiser (1871–1945)
564 Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892–1950)