| There is a considerable period in every man’s life, when the best thing he can do is to let his mind soak and tan in the vats of literature. |
| —The Road to a Liberal Education |
| Charles Francis Adams, Jr. |
A Library of American Literature
From the Earliest Settlement to the Present Time In Eleven Volumes
Compiled and Edited by Edmund Clarence Stedman and Ellen Mackay Hutchinson
| This extraordinary man-woman editorial partnership revived neglected works and created the essential reference for American studies for generations of scholars. The 6000 pages of the 11 volumes contain over 2500 selections by more than 1100 authors. The country’s growth is traced—in every genre—through representative writings from the Great Awakenings, Independence, National Literature, the American Renaissance, the slavery debate, dialect writings, and the growth of the sciences, interspersed with over 1200 poems. |
Bibliographic Record Preface Index to Authors Index To Verse
Contents
| NEW YORK: CHARLES L. WEBSTER & COMPANY, 1891 NEW YORK: BARTLEBY.COM, 2013 |
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Vols.
I–II.Colonial Literature, 1607–1764 III. Literature of the Revolutionary Period, 1765–1787 IV. Literature of the Republic, Part I., 1788–1820 V. Literature of the Republic, Part II., 1821–1834 VI–VIII. Literature of the Republic, Part III., 1835–1860 IX–XI. Literature of the Republic, Part IV., 1861–1889