Pearson Custom Library: American Literature

Pearson Custom Library gives you the power to create tailor-made materials for your course that save time and control student costs

The process of developing course materials can be extremely time-consuming. Many instructors spend countless hours and resources searching for the right materials for their course, only to end up settling for something that doesn’t quite fit, or requiring students to purchase multiple, expensive textbooks, using only a few chapters from each. With the Pearson Custom Library online book building platform , you can select as many or as few chapters as you need to suit your course, or combine chapters from multiple texts, and we’ll custom publish your unique text. You’re in full control of the content, sequence, and price, so you get what you want, and students pay only for what they need.

Pearson Custom Library: American Literature gives you the freedom to choose exactly the works you want from a collection of more than 1,800 classic and contemporary pieces of literature. Create your own customized anthology with your choice of essays, letters, plays, poems, short stories and excerpts from major works.

• Convenient — Search, review and select the content you want using the online book building platform.
• Five in-depth period introductions, three thematic introductions, and biographical headnotes for each author, written by members of the editorial board
• Flexibility to revise the content of your anthology each semester
• On-line book build system with extensive multivariable search function and on-line viewing capability
• Anchor volume TOC for each period which can be used in its entirety or as a starting point in compiling your own book
• Unlimited Outside Materials — Upload any additional outside materials you want to include.  There’s no limit to the amount of outside content you can include in your book.
• Free Original Material — Include up to 50 pages of self-authored, or permissions-free original material, free of charge, and without any additional expense for students.*
• Collaborate with Colleagues — Share your custom book with colleagues via our book build platform before you make an adoption decision to make group teaching and committee adoption decisions more efficient.
• Diverse Cover Options — Create your own cover, selecting from a library of options.
• Choose Your Preferred Evaluation Copy Format — Digital evaluation copies available immediately.  Hard copies available within 1 — 4 weeks.
• Quick Turnaround — Bookstores receive books within 4 — 8 weeks, depending on the color of the text.

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John Bryant is professor of English at Hofstra University. He has published five books and numerous articles on Melville, and is the editor of the Penguin Classics edition of Typee. He has been the general editor of the Melville Society since 1990 and is editor of Leviathan: A Journal of Melville Studies. He is the author of the recently published The Fluid Text: A Theory of Revision and Editing for Book and Screen and the forthcoming
Melville Unfolding.

Jacquelyn Y. McLendon is an associate professor of English and the director of Black Studies at the College of William and Mary. She has published two books: Phillis Wheatley: A Revolutionary Poet, a children's biography, and The Politics of Color in the Fiction of Jessie Fauset and Nella Larsen, a critical analysis of the works of these two black women writers of the Harlem Renaissance. She has also published a number of articles and entries on the work of writers such as Gwendolyn Brooks, Langston Hughes, Alice Walker, Amiri Baraka, and Chester Himes. She is currently working on another book about the Harlem Renaissance that will include writers, visual artists, and performers of that era.

Cristanne Miller is Edward H. Butler Professor of Literature and Chair of the English Department at SUNY University at Buffalo. Among other work, she has published Emily Dickinson: A Poet's Grammar (1987), Marianne Moore: Questions of Authority (1994), Modernist Cultures: Marianne Moore, Mina Loy, Else Lasker-Schüler, Gender and Literary Community in New York and Berlin (2005), and co-authored Comic Powerin Emily Dickinson (with Suzanne Juhasz and Martha Nell Smith, 1993); she has also coedited
The Selected Letters of Marianne Moore (with Bonnie Costello and Celeste Goodridge, 1997) and The Emily Dickinson Handbook (with Roland Hagenbüchle and Gudrun Grabher, 1998).

Robin Schulze is an Associate Professor of English at Penn State University. She is a specialist in American modernist poetry and the author of The Web of Friendship: Marianne Moore and Wallace Stevens (1995) and Becoming Marianne Moore: The Early Poems, 1907-1924 (2002), as well as numerous articles on modernist verse and editorial theory. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Michigan in 1991.

David S. Shields is a historian of early American literature and culture. A Professor at the University of South Carolina, he edits the journal Early American Literature. Author of Civil Tongues and Polite Letters in British America (1997) and Oracles of Empire (1990). He has also served as president of the Society of Early Americanists. An expert in print culture and the history of cultural institutions, he was one of the five authors of the Cambridge History of American Literature, Vol. 1, and a collaborator in volumes 1 and 2 of A History of the Book in America.