"The first two volumes of the full Broadview Anthology of American Literature (“Beginnings to 1820” and “1820 to Reconstruction”) were published in 2022. This concise volume, designed to suit the needs of one-term survey courses, provides a single-volume option covering the full “Beginnings to Reconstruction” period. As with the volumes of the full anthology, the Concise Edition presents an extraordinarily wide selection of work by canonical authors, but also presents American literature in the round-literature from the South and West as well as the Northeast, literature by a wide range of black and Indigenous as well as white writers, literature by Hispanic writers, literature reflective of different sexual orientations, and popular literature as well as literature established by scholarly and pedagogical convention as “literary.” All genres are represented-oral literature and oratory as well as prose non-fiction, fiction, poetry, and drama. Access to the extensive online component of the anthology is included with the purchase of the bound book volume."--