american literature

A comprehensive overview of the Harlem Renaissance that discusses the concept of the New Negro, the foundation and international context of the movement, major authors and texts, and the post-Renaissance.

A collection of writings from colonial America, covering a period that ranges from before Columbus through the early nineteenth century with a focus on the American Revolutionary period.

Examines baseball writing in America from the early nineteenth century to the present, highlighting popular writers and works from the genre.

Presents a comprehensive history of the Harlem Renaissance during the early decades of the twentieth century; and contains essays and an audio CD on the music, art, literature, and politics of that era.

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.