The Norton Anthology of American Literature

Product Description
A diverse collection with innovative resources to tackle today’s teaching challenges. The Tenth Edition introduces diverse, compelling, relevant texts―from Civil War songs and stories to
The Turn of the Screw to
The Great Gatsby to poems by Juan Felipe Herrera and Claudia Rankine to a science fiction cluster featuring Octavia Butler and N. K. Jemisin. And continuing its course of innovative and market-responsive changes, the anthology now offers resources to help instructors meet today’s teaching challenges. Chief among these resources is InQuizitive, Norton’s award-winning learning tool, which includes interactive questions on the period introductions and often-taught works in the anthology. In addition, the Tenth Edition maintains the anthology’s exceptional editorial apparatus and generous and diverse slate of texts overall. Available in print and as an annotatable ebook, the anthology is ideal for online, hybrid, or in-person teaching.
About the Author
Robert S. Levine (Ph.D. Stanford; General Editor and Editor, 1820–1865) is Distinguished University Professor of English and Distinguished Scholar-Teacher at the University of Maryland, College Park. He is the author of
Conspiracy and Romance: Studies in Brockden Brown, Cooper, Hawthorne, and Melville; Martin Delany, Frederick Douglass, and the Politics of Representative Identity; Dislocating Race and Nation: Episodes in Nineteenth-Century American Literary Nationalism; The Lives of Frederick Douglas; Race, Transnationalism, and Nineteenth-Century American Literary Studies; and (upcoming from Norton)
The Failed Promise: Reconstruction, Frederick Douglass, and the Impeachment of Andrew Johnson. He has edited a number of books, including
The New Cambridge Companion to Herman Melville and Norton Critical Editions of Hawthorne’s
The House of the Seven Gables and Melville’s
Pierre. Levine has received fellowships from the NEH and the Guggenheim Foundation. In 2014 the American Literature Section of the MLA awarded him the Hubbell Medal for Lifetime Achievement in American Literary Studies.\nMichael A. Elliott (Ph.D. Columbia; Editor, 1865–1914) is Asa Griggs Candler Professor of English and American Studies and Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at Emory University. He is the author of
The Culture Concept: Writing and Difference in the Age of Realism and Custerology: The Enduring Legacy of the Indian Wars and George Armstrong Custer. He is also the co-editor of two additional books:
The American Novel, 1865–1940 (volume 6 of the Oxford History of the Novel in English) and
American Literary Studies: A Methodological Reader.\nNew to the Tenth Edition,
Lisa Siraganian (Ph.D. Johns Hopkins, Editor, 1914–1945) is Associate Professor and the J. R. Herbert Boone Chair in Humanities at the Johns Hopkins University. She is the author of
Modernism’s Other Work: The Art Object’s Political Life and
Modernism and the Meaning of Corporate Persons. In addition, she has published essays in, among others,
Law and Literature, American Literary History, Modernism/Modernity, Modern Fiction Studies, nonsite, and
Post45.\nAmy Hungerford (Ph.D. Johns Hopkins; Editor, 1945 to the Present) is the Ruth Fulton Benedict Professor of English and Comparative Literature and the Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences at Columbia University. She is a scholar of twentieth- and twenty-first-century American literature and the author of
The Holocaust of Texts: Genocide, Literature, and Personification; Postmodern Belief: American Literature and Religion since 1960; and, most recently,
Making Literature Now. She is a founder of the Post45 collective and site editor of the group's open access journal on post–1945 American literature and culture (post45.org).\nNew to the Tenth Edition, GerShun Avilez (Ph.D. Pennsylvania; coeditor, 1945 to the Present) is Associate Professor of English at the University of Maryland, College Park. He is the author of
Radical Aesthet