The Norton Anthology of American Literature Shorter Fifth Edition Edited by Nina Baym, General Editor, et al. 2,862 pages 0-393-97291-7 / paper Order Online Package Options Back to the English Page

Thirteen Complete Works The Shorter Fifth Edition offers students more works in their entirety than does any other one-volume anthology of American literature. Appearing here in full are Emerson's Nature, Whitman's Song of Myself (1881), Melville's Bartleby, the Scrivener and Benito Cereno, Davis's Life in the Iron-Mills, Clemens's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, James's Daisy Miller: A Study, Cather's Neighbour Rosicky, Eliot's The Waste Land, O'Neill's Long Day's Journey into Night, Hemingway's The Snows of Kilimanjaro, Williams's A Streetcar Named Desire, and Ginsberg's Howl. Early Women Writers Eighteenth- and nineteenth-century women writers are richly represented by four new authors-Susanna Rowson, Catharine Maria Sedgwick, Lydia Maria Child, and Fanny Fern-and expanded selections by Bradstreet, Wheatley, Fuller, and Stowe. Diarists and letter-writers, poets, short story and sketch writers, best-selling novelists, columnists, abolitionists, suffragists, labor agitators-these authors illuminate the essential role that women played in the literary cultures of diverse regions of early America. Short Prose Fiction Twenty-two complete works of short fiction, ideal for the one-semester course, are new to the Shorter Fifth Edition, among them Hurston's The Gilded Six-Bits, Poe's The Tell-Tale Heart, Baldwin's Going to Meet the Man, and-for the first time-two Fitzgerald stories, Winter Dreams and Babylon Revisited. Prose since 1945 Jerome Klinkowitz, University Distinguished Scholar at the University of Northern Iowa, has reconceived "American Prose since 1945" to more fully convey the diverse movements in fiction over the past five decades. New writers include Grace Paley, Raymond Carver, Toni Cade Bambara, Sandra Cisneros, and Toni Morrison. A new period introduction outlines the large-scale economic, technological, and cultural changes that have transformed postwar America and American literature. Poetry since 1945 Included here are poems by three new poets-U.S. Poet Laureate Robert Pinsky, Mary Oliver, and Joy Harjo-as well as Allen Ginsberg's complete Howl, a generous excerpt from Adrienne Rich's long poem An Atlas of the Difficult World, and recent work by John Ashbery and Rita Dove, among others. American Drama Unique to one-volume anthologies, the Shorter Fifth Edition offers O'Neill's Long Day's Journey into Night and Williams's A Streetcar Named Desire, both in their entirety. Videotaped film adaptations of these plays are available free to qualified adopters. Native American Traditions In response to instructors' requests, a new cluster of Native American Trickster Tales from the Navajo, Koasati, and Winnebago tribes now joins the Creation Stories in "Literature to 1620." Introductions carefully explain the transcription and translation process and the cultural contexts of the different trickster figures. New writer Joy Harjo and new selections by Samson Occom, Black Elk, and Louise Erdrich further enrich the volume's strong Native American offerings. Helpful Apparatus New pedagogical features include timelines preceding each period and revised endpaper maps. The period introductions, author headnotes, annotations, and bibliographies have been thoroughly revised in light of recent scholarship. Balanced, comprehensive, and accessible apparatus has long distinguished The Norton Anthology of American Literature; the Shorter Fifth Edition continues that tradition.