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Becoming America

An Exploration of American Literature from Precolonial to Post-Revolution

Edited by Wendy Kurant, Ph.D.

ISBN: 978-1-940771-31-1

Print Version:

  • Large Format (8.5 x 11 inches)
    • Volume 1: $59.99 | 978-1-940771-61-8
    • Volume 2: $69.99 | 978-1-940771-62-5
  • Small Format (6 x 9 inches)
    • Volume 1: $39.99 | 978-1-940771-63-2
    • Volume 2: $44.99 | 978-1-940771-64-9

Digital Version: Free

Becoming America: An Exploration of American Literature from Precolonial to Post-Revolution is an anthology highlighting early American voices. Featuring 69 authors, historical context, images, and instructional support, it invites students to critically engage with literature that helped shape American identity.

The University of North Georgia Press and Affordable Learning Georgia bring you Becoming America: An Exploration of American Literature from Precolonial to Post-Revolution. Featuring sixty-nine authors and full texts of their works, the selections in this open anthology represent the diverse voices in early American literature. This completely-open anthology will connect students to the conversation of literature that is embedded in American history and has helped shaped its culture.

Features:

  • Contextualizing introductions from Pre- and Early Colonial Literature to Early American Romanticism
  • Over 70 historical images
  • In-depth biographies of each author
  • Instructional Design, including Reading and Review Questions

This textbook is an Open Educational Resource (OER). It can be reused, remixed, and reedited freely without seeking permission.

Wendy Kurant, Ph.D., teaches Early American Literature, American Romanticism, Realism, Naturalism, and Southern Literature at the University of North Georgia (UNG). Her research interests center on new Historicism and depictions of the South and the Civil War in Literature. She has taught at UNG since 2005.

Instructor Resources are available! Educators can request access by submitting the Request OER Instructor Resources form.

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