american literature

Contains six novels written by American author Willa Cather in the later part of her career between 1923 and 1940, including "Death Comes for the Archbishop," and her final work, "Sapphira and the Slave Girl.".

Presents an overview of American literature from 1800 to 1860, examining the social, cultural, and historical contexts of the time, exploring such topics as Romanticism, Transcendentalism, and social reform and discussing such authors as Emily Dickinson, Frederick Douglass, Edgar Allan Poe, Longfellow, and more.

Presents an overview of American literature from 1860 to 1910, examining the social, cultural, and historical context of the time, discussing such topics as slave narratives, naturalism and sectionalism and authors including Stephen Crane, Henry James, Mark Twain, Jack London, and more.

Present an overview of American literature from 1945 to 2005, examining the social, cultural, and historical contexts of the time, discussing such topics as post-World War Two literature, ethnic and minority literature, the Civil Rights movement, Postmodernism, and more.

Presents an overview of American literature from Colonialism through 1800, examining the social, cultural, and historical contexts of the time, providing information on Puritan morality, Enlightenment philosophy, and authors such as Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Paine, Phillis Wheatley, and more.

Presents an overview of American literature from 1910 to 1945 examining the social, cultural, and historical contexts of the time, providing information on Surrealism, Expressionism, the Harlem Renaissance, and Modernism, and including a discussion of T.S. Eliot, Langston Hughes, John Steinbeck, and more.

Presents alphabetized profiles of ninety twentieth-century American writers of fiction, nonfiction, drama, poetry, and song lyrics, describing their lives, careers, major works, and creative inspirations and providing select bibliographies, lists of further resources, photos, and full-color artwork.

Presents an overview of the literary movement known as American realism, and features fifteen critical articles that offer a definition of realism, and discuss the rise of naturalism, class, race, and gender in American realism; national character in American realism; and realism after 1914.

Discusses the life of American author J.D. Salinger and the historical context, plot, characters, and themes of his novel "The Catcher in the Rye"; also includes ideas for research, excerpts of criticism, and a chronology.

An introduction to Harper Lee's famous novel, "To Kill a Mockingbird," discussing the author's life, the historical context of the novel, its plot, themes, characters, literary criticism, and pertinence for today's audiences.