The American Story is designed for survey courses in early American Literature. It was written and designed for the current generation of college students. The book includes extensive annotations and definitions to help with critical reading skills. Information before each author’s work, and inside the works, aids with understanding historical and cultural context.
Bryan, Genie
About the Author
Genie Bryan
About the Author
Genie Bryan is a professor of English at Georgia Southwestern State University. She teaches everything from Composition to the Gothic. She has been carrying on with Nathaniel Hawthorne since graduate school (it’s ok; her husband knows). Her research focuses on preparing for classes for the most part these days, but, when granted time by the cycles of the moon, she prefers to dwell in the spaces of the Gothic. She works for two cats: Cesare and Lucrezia Borgia. They like it when people are at their table playing Dungeons & Dragons.
Part 1 The Story Begins
- John Smith
- William Bradford
- Thomas Morton
- John Winthrop
- Roger Williams
- Anne Bradstreet
- Jonathan Edwards
Part 2 The Making of a New Nation
- Hector St. Jon De Crevecoeur
- John and Abigail Adams
- Thomas Paine
- Thomas Jefferson - Declaration of Independence
- Phillis Wheatley
- Washington Irving
Part 3 The New Nation Reckons with Itself: Romanticism in America
- William Cullen Bryant
- Lydia Maria Child
- Henry David Thoreau
- Nathaniel Hawthorne
- Herman Melville
- Edgar Allan Poe
- Fanny Fern
- Margaret Fuller
- Angelina E. Grimke
- Harriet Jacobs
- William Wells Brown
- Emily Dickinson
- Rebecca Harding Davis