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• Sixth Edition
• Nina Baym (General Editor), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, et al.
• Pkg 1 (Vols. A & B): Lit. to 1865 • 0-393-97793-5 • 2 pb vols, bellybanded • 2002
• Pkg 2 (Vols. C, D & E): 1865 to present • 0-393-97794-3 • 3 pb vols, bellybanded • 2002
• Vol. A: American Literature to 1820 • 0-393-97898-2 • paper • 2002
• Vol. B: American Literature, 1820–1865 • 0-393-97905-9 • paper • 2002
• Vol. C: American Literature, 1865–1914 • 0-393-97899-0 • paper • 2002
• Vol. D: Between the Wars, 1914–1945 • 0-393-97900-8 • paper • 2002
• Vol. E: American Literature since 1945 • 0-393-97901-6 • paper • 2002

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American Passages is an integrated multimedia college-level course in American Literature, which can be used in a one- or two-semester setting. Its mission is to give instructors who wish to teach a diverse canon of American literature within historical and social context an exceptionally coherent, rich, and supportive program of materials in several media.

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Teaching with The Norton Anthology of American Literature: A Guide for Instructors

Bruce Michelson and Marjorie Pryse
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A lively and practical resource, the Guide includes questions to motivate close reading and discussion; concise teaching notes for individual periods, authors, and works; model exam questions and essay topics; and reading lists for a wide variety of courses using The Norton Anthology:

• A historical approach
• A "major authors" approach
• Courses emphasizing literary diversity, such as Gender and American Poetics, American Minority Voices, Marginality and Inclusion, Persuasion and Polemic in American Literature.
• Courses emphasizing genre and theme, such as The American Landscape, Immigration and Wandering, Inventing the Self, The Problem of Literary Authority.

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Instructors who adopt The Norton Anthology of American Literature, Sixth Edition, may request the following videos of film adaptations of full-length drama selections featured in The Norton Anthology:

• Eugene O’Neill’s Long Day’s Journey into Night
• Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman
• Tennessee Williams’s A Streetcar Named Desire
• David Mamet’s Glengarry Glen Ross

Contact Catherine Spencer at cspencer@wwnorton.com for more information on these videos.

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The Norton Resource Library includes the Instructor's Manual and Teaching Poetry in downloadable format, timelines, quiz questions, and exam and essay topics.

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