Description: Hannah Webster Foster's two major Early American works with a wealth of primary materials are now available in a Norton Critical Edition.
Brief description: Bryan Waterman is Associate Professor of English at New York University. He is the author of The Friendly Club of New York Cityand the Making of American Literature and several essays on American literature and culture published in American Literary History, Early American Literature, The William and Mary Quarterly, and elsewhere. He is the coeditor, with Cyrus R. K. Patell, of The Cambridge Companion to the Literature of New York.