american literature

Contains over four hundred alphabetically arranged entries that provide biographical, bibliographical, and critical information on authors of fiction, poetry, and drama for readers between the ages of eleven and nineteen.

Collection of stories praising America's favorite sport, football.

The history, story, and impressions of the city of Chicago as seen by some of America's most notable authors.

Explores patterns of female heroism in American and British literature from the Anglo-Saxon period to the present.

Contains brief biographies, plot summaries, and other aspects of American literary life and history from the Colonial period to the modern era.

Presents a revision of the 1973 Norton Critical Edition of Walt Whitman's "Leaves of Grass," and includes the full text of the 1855 edition, as well as excerpts from two prose works, annotations, and commentary.

An introduction to twentieth-century American literature that explores the events that shaped the lives of individual authors, examines the challenge of thinking and writing about twentieth-century American literature, and profiles a diverse selection of American literature.

A collection of autobiographical essays in which twenty-seven Native Americans discuss what their heritage means to them.