TY - BOOK AU - Castillo,Susan P. TI - American literature in context to 1865 T2 - Literature in context SN - 9781405188647 (alk. paper) AV - PS88 .C43 2011 U1 - 810.9/973 22 PY - 2011/// CY - Chichester, West Sussex, U.K., Malden, MA PB - Wiley-Blackwell KW - American literature KW - History and criticism KW - National characteristics, American, in literature KW - Literature and history KW - United States N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; The arrival of the Europeans -- European exploration and settlement: The anvil and the golden fleece -- The city on a hill: alternative visions -- From colonies to nation -- The struggle for identity in post-revolutionary America -- American expansion and the Transcendentalists -- The originals: Edgar Allan Poe, Herman Melville, Emily Dickinson, and Walt Whitman -- A house divided: abolitionism, the women's movement, and The civil war ER -