Introduction

Welcome to American Literature I – ENGL 2773 at Tulsa Community College!  This textbook was created to provide information and support for our class and its assignments.  I hope you find it to be useful, and I welcome feedback about what could be added to it, removed from it, or revised within it.

My sincere thanks to the Online Consortium of Oklahoma; Tulsa Community College, and the TCC librarians in particular; the authors of the shared material that makes up a part of this textbook (listed and linked below); and the photographers of the shared images that make up a part of this textbook, including Ricky Esquivel, whose work was used to for the cover image of this textbook.

American Literature 1600-1865, Edited by Lumen Learning

American Literature I: An Open Anthology of Texts from Early America Through the Civil War, Edited by Jennifer Kurtz and Remixed by Deborah Gussman

The Anthology of Earlier American Literature: College of Western Idaho, Edited by Joel Gladd

Becoming America: An Exploration of American Literature from Precolonial to Post-Revolution, Edited by Wendy Kurant

Composition for Commodores, Edited by Mollie Chambers, Karin Hooks, Donna Hunt, Kim Karshner, Josh Kesterson, Geoff Polk, Amy Scott-Douglass, Justin Sevenker, Jewon Woo, and other LCCC Faculty

English Composition II, Edited by Lumen Learning

Hathi Trust

The Literature of Early America, Edited by Kelli Hallsten Erickson

The National Archives

The Renewable Anthology of Early American Literature, Edited by Jared Aragona

Wikisource