The Harper Single Volume American Literature
Third Edition
Donal McQUade University of California, Berkeley
General Editor
Robert Atwan Seton Hall University
Martha Banta University of California, Los Angeles
Justin Kaplan Cambridge, Massachusetts
David Minter Rice University
Robert Stepto Yale University
Cecelia Tichi Vanderbilt University
Helen Vendler Harvard University
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