american literature

Contains twenty-seven alphabetically arranged articles that provide information about significant African-American authors, each with a biographical overview, a survey of principal writings, an assessment of the subject's work as a whole, and a bibliography; and includes a discussion of the Black Arts Movement.

Includes seven short stories and nonfiction selections from The Man-Made World: Our androcentric culture, and Women and economics.

A guide to reading and understanding Ernest Hemingway's novel "The Sun Also Rises" that includes an in-depth biography of the author, essays which examine various aspects of the novel, and information on the book's themes and characters.

A collection of urban articles, essays, interviews, and poems.

In "The Turn of the Screw" two children are haunted by the evil spirits of two former servants. In "Daisy Miller, " the life of a young girl is tragically ruined.

An anthology of previously uncollected works by African-American poet Paul Laurence Dunbar.

Features poetry and prose by twenty-seven women of the Beat Generation, including Mimi Albert, Joyce Johnson, Jan Kerouac, Laura Ulewicz, and Anne Waldman.

Contains alphabetically arranged essays that provide biographical and critical information aboutthirty-six significant American short-story writers active before 1880; each with a list of principal works and a bibliography.

Contains alphabetically arranged entries that examine the contributions of forty-three nineteenth-century American literary critics and scholars to letters in the U.S.; each with a bibliography. Includes a cumulative index.