"This book offers a one-stop reference work covering the Gilded Age and Progressive era that serves teachers and their students. Integrates and aligns material for American literature and social studies curricula. Offers a range of tools to support literary works--analysis, history, document excerpts, and areas for study. Provides historical context for multiple key works of literature on the Gilded Age and Progressive era"--Provided by publisher.
A collection of essays that discusses the work of nineteenth-century America poet Emily Dickinson, covering her life, publication history, poetic themes and strategies, and the historical and cultural contexts in which she wrote.
Presents the travel narratives of four seventeenth- and eighteenth-century American colonists, which relate such experiences as capture by Native Americans and survey of a disputed boundary line. Includes an introduction, explanatory notes, and an extensive selected bibliography.
Examines the lives and experiences of three representative American women poets in the context of their historical time and place, including Puritan Anne Bradstreet, Emily Dickinson in the nineteenth century, and contemporary poet Adrienne Rich.
Presents an introduction to Kate Chopin's 1899 novel "The Awakening, " the story of a Victorian-era wife and mother who becomes enamored with a young man she meets while on vacation, and includes four critical essays, and guides to further reading.
the best contemporary short stories by North American women
Martin, Wendy
2004
Presents short stories from 1972 through 2002 by twenty-four North American women authors including Toni Cade Bambara, Sandra Cisneros, Joyce Carol Oates, and Alice McDermott.
