 | | 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. |
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| A Library of American Literature |
From the Earliest Settlement to the Present Time
In Eleven Volumes |
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Compiled and Edited by
Edmund Clarence Stedman and
Ellen Mackay Hutchinson |
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| 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. |
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| CONTENTS |
| Bibliographic Record Preface Index to Authors Index to Verse |
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 |
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