About the Anthology Guided by the latest scholarship in American literary studies, and deeply committed to inclusiveness, social responsibility, and rigorous contextualization, The Broadview Anthology of American Literature balances representation of widely agreed-upon major works with a thoroughgoing reassessment of the canon that emphasizes American literature’s diversity, variety, breadth, and connections with the rest of the Americas. This concise volume represents American literature from its pre-contact Indigenous beginnings through the Reconstruction period, offering a more streamlined alternative to the full two-volume set covering the same timespan. A volume covering Reconstruction to the Present is also in development. Highlights of Concise Volume 1: Beginnings to Reconstruction • Complete texts of Mary Rowlandson’s captivity narrative; Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave ; and Benito Cereno - • In-depth thematic sections on such topics as “Rebellions and Revolutions,” “Print Culture and Popular Literature,” and “Expansion, Native American Expulsion, and Manifest Destiny” - • More extensive coverage of Indigenous oral and visual literature and African American oral literature than in competing anthologies - • Full author sections in the anthology are devoted to authors such as Anne Hutchinson, Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, Briton Hammon, Jane Johnston Schoolcraft, José María Heredia, Black Hawk, and many others - • Extensive online component offers well over a thousand pages of additional readings and other resources Comments on Concise Volume 1 “This single yet capacious volume impressively captures the flourishing diversity, cultural and geographical, of American literature from its earliest years through the period of Reconstruction. (A broad view, indeed!) Furthermore, its selection of literary texts is greatly enhanced by its generous attention to historical contexts. Notes drawn from recent scholarship are judicious and helpful, and the wonderful variety of images reproduced here illustrate the rich history of print culture in America. This anthology constitutes a new standard for the teaching of American literature.” ― John Hay, University of Nevada, Las Vegas “I am very much looking forward to the arrival of the Broadview Concise Anthology of American Literature. One thing that distinguishes this anthology is its commitment to presenting authors of color in conversation with their white counterparts. The editors offer thoughtful selections from authors like Olaudah Equiano, Jane Johnston Schoolcraft, George Moses Horton, and Harriet Jacobs (to name some standouts). But Broadview further offers selections on abolition, racial identity, and colonialism from white authors like Franklin, Lydia Sigourney, Longfellow, and Melville, whose investment in such issues might be less familiar to students. The intersection between these selections serves to integrate authors of color into the fabric of American experience, rather than isolating them.” ― Vera Foley, Gustavus Adolphus College Comments on Volumes A & B “ The Broadview Anthology of American Literature expands anthology options to students and teachers of American literature by simultaneously balancing canonical expectations and reflecting the vibrant expanse of literary expression. As such, the anthology is a welcome introduction to historical, thematic, and literary developments up through the early nineteenth century…. [I]t reckons with how literature establishes and maintains structures of settler colonialism, white supremacy, and heteropatriarchy while simultaneously serving as a site of alternatives and resistance, persuasively presenting the complexity of early America and early American literary studies. … The anthology is organized around multiple levels of contextual background and thematic constellations, balancing a wider discussion of literary developments with useful information about historical and social movements. … With this organization, The Broadview Anthology answers the multiple demands placed upon many instructors of early American literature, who often introduce students to relevant historical background in addition to literary studies…. While the volume … works to introduce new writers, it also expands the texts associated with figures readers may already know. … This anthology prompts us to repeatedly imagine the vast richness of literature in the early Americas. ” ― Kimberly Takahata, Villanova University, in ABO: Interactive Journal for Women in the Arts, 1640-1830 “The Broadview Anthology is, quite simply, a breakthrough. From reproducing essential canonical texts to recovering unjustly forgotten ones, the editors offer a remarkably panoramic collection of American literature…. Meticulously researched and expertly assembled, the Broadview should be the new gold standard for scholars and teachers alike.” ― Michael D’Alessandro, Andrew W. Mellon Assistant Professor of E