THE GLORIOUS AMERICAN ESSAY

A monumental, canon-defining anthology of three centuries of American essays, from Cotton Mather and Benjamin Franklin to David Fost er Wallace and Zadie Smith.Many of the essays Phillip Lopate has gathered here address themselves--sometimes critically--to American values, but even in those that don't, one can detect a subtext about being American. The Founding Fathers and early American writer s self-consciously struggle to establish a recognizable national culture. The shining stars of the mid-nineteenth-century American R enaissan...[Read more]