A few days ago
Rashangel

Know anything about American Literature?

I have project to do for my English 11 class. I have to research an author that is American and has some literary criticism and has at least 4 books, and 2 bibliography’s.

Can you please name some authors. Thank you!

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A few days ago
soniakidman

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1 Jonathan Edwards (1703-1758)

The works of Jonathan Edwards. Perry Miller, general editor. New Haven: Yale UP, 1957-1989. BX7117 .E3 1957 Library Has: v.1-v.9:

Freedom of the will. Edited by Paul Ramsey. 1957. BX7117 .E3 1957 v.1

Religious affections. Edited by John E. Smith. 1959. BX7117 .E3 1957 v.2

Original sin. Edited by Clyde A. Holbrook. 1970. BX7117 .E3 1957 v.3

The great awakening: A faithful narrative. The distinguishing marks. Some thoughts concerning The revival, letters relating to The revival. Preface to True religion by Joseph Bellamy. Edited by C. C. Goen. 1972. BX7117 .E3 1957 v.4

Apocalyptic writings. Edited by Stephen J. Stein. 1977. BX7117 .E3 1957 v.5

Scientific and philosophical writings. Edited by Wallace E. Anderson. 1980. BX7117 .E3 1957 v.6

The life of David Brainerd. Edited by Norman Pettit. 1985. BX7117 .E3 1957 v.7

Ethical writings. Edited by Paul Ramsey. 1989. BX7117 .E3 1957 v.8

A history of the work of redemption. Eited by John F. Wilson. 1989. BX7117 .E3 1957 v.9

A Jonathan Edwards reader. Edited by John E. Smith, Harry S. Stout, and Kenneth P. Minkema. New Haven: Yale UP, 1995. BR50 .E34

Chamberlain, Ava. ed. The “Miscellanies”, 501-832. New Haven: Yale UP, 2000.

Claghorn, George S. ed. Letters and Personal Writings. New Haven: Yale UP, 1998.

Lee, Sang Hyun ed. Writings on the Trinity, Grace, and Faith. New Haven: Yale UP, 2002.

Lesser, M. X. ed. Sermons and Discourses, 1734-1738. New Haven: Yale UP, 2001.

Minkema, Kenneth P. ed. Sermons and Discourses, 1723-1729. New Haven: Yale UP, 1997.

Pauw, Amy P. ed. The “Miscellanies”, 833-1152. New Haven: Yale UP, 2002.

Stout, Harry S. ed. Sermons and Discourses, 1739-1742. New Haven: Yale UP, 2003.

Selected Bibliography 1980-Present

Brand, David C. Profile of the Last Puritan: Jonathan Edwards, Self-Love, and the Dawn of the Beatific. Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1991.

Conforti, Joseph A. Jonathan Edwards, Religious Tradition, and American Culture. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 1995.

Cowell, Patricia. Jonathan Edwards. Boston: Twayne Publishers, 1988.

Fiering, Norman. Jonathan Edwards’s Moral Thought and its British Context. Chapel Hill: U of North Carolina P, 1981. BX7260 .E3 F53

Hatch, Nathan O. Jonathan Edwards and the American Experience. NY: Oxford UP, 1988. BX7260 .E3 J65

Jenson, Robert W. America’s Theologian: A Recommendation of Jonathan Edwards. NY: Oxford UP, 1988. BX 7260 .E3 J45

Kuklick, Bruce. Churchmen and Philosophers: From Jonathan Edwards to John Dewey. New Haven: Yale UP, 1985. BT30 .U6 K85

Lesser, M. X. Jonathan Edwards. Boston: Twayne P, 1988. PS742 .L47

– – -. Jonathan Edwards: An Annotated Bibliography, 1979-1993.Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1994.

Miller, Perry. Jonathan Edwards. Amherst: U of Massachusetts P, 1981. BX7260 .E3 M5

Oberg, Barbara B. and Harry S. Stout. Benjamin Franklin, Jonathan Edwards, and the Representation of American Culture. New York: Oxford University Press, 1993.

Scheick, William J., ed. Critical Essays On Jonathan Edwards. Boston: G. K. Hall, 1980. BX7260.E3 C67

Smith, John E, Harry S. Stout and Kenneth P. Minkema. A Jonathan Edwards Reader. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1995.

Tracy, Patricia J. Jonathan Edwards, Pastor: Religion and Society in Eighteenth Century Northampton. NY: Hill and Wang, 1980. BX7260.E3 T72

2 Anne Bradstreet (c. 1612-1672)

Selected Secondary Bibliography on Anne Bradstreet

Arner, Robert D. “The Structure of Anne Bradstreet’s Tenth Muse.” Discoveries & Considerations: Essays on Early American Literature & Aesthetics Presented to Harold Jantz. Ed. Calvin Israel. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1976. 46-66.

Blackstock, Carrie Galloway. “Anne Bradstreet and Performativity.” Early American Literature 32.3 (1997): 222-249.

Blackstock, Carrie Galloway. “Anne Bradstreet and Performativity: Self-Cultivation, Self- Deployment.” Early American Literature 32.3 (1997): 222-48.

Brackett, Virginia. “The Countesse of Lincolne’s Nurserie as Inspiration for Anne Bradstreet.” Notes and Queries 42.240) (1995): 364-66.

Brackett, Virginia. “Putting the Flowers In.” Arachne: An Interdisciplinary Journal of the Humanities 7.1-2 (2000): 5-20.

Bradstreet, Anne The Works of Anne Bradstreet. Ed. Robert Hensley. Cambridge, Mass.: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1967.

Brandt, Ellen B. “Anne Bradstreet: The Erotic Component in Puritan Poetry.” Women’s Studies 7.1-2 (1980): 39-53.

Caldwell, Patricia. “Why Our First Poet Was a Woman: Bradstreet and the Birth of an American Poetic Voice.” Prospects: An Annual Journal of American Cultural Studies 13 (1988): 1-35.

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A few days ago
emvball_19
well i’m in english 11 too…so hopefully i can help! heres a few authors:

ray bradbury- best known for fahrenheit 451

f. scott fitzgerald- best known for the great gatsby

ernest hemingway- best known for for whom the bell tolls or

the old man and the sea

mark twain- best known for huckleberry finn or tom sawyer

herman melville- best known for moby dick

nathaniel hawthorne- best known for the scarlet letter

edgar allen poe- best known for the raven

these are just some of the most famous ones. i hope this helps!!

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