Category: American Literature

By Sarah Bird Wright

ISBN-10: 0816055831

ISBN-13: 9780816055838

The Scarlet Letter, ''The condominium of the Seven Gables'', ''Young Goodman Brown,'' and ''Rappaccini's Daughter'' are staples of highschool English sessions around the nation. Nathaniel Hawthorne's works and characters have left an enduring effect on writers, students, and readers world wide. ''Critical better half to Nathaniel Hawthorne'' deals serious entries on Hawthorne's novels, brief tales, go back and forth writing, feedback, and different works, in addition to photos of characters, together with Hester Prynne and Roger Chillingworth. This finished reference additionally offers entries on Hawthorne's relatives, associates - starting from Herman Melville to President Franklin Pierce - publishers, and critics, in addition to periodicals that released his paintings and critical areas and occasions in his lifestyles. masking every thing of value in Nathaniel Hawthorne's existence and paintings, this necessary consultant bargains a whole view of this respected writer. insurance contains: a biography of Nathaniel Hawthorne; entries on his works, either significant and minor, together with serious surveys and insurance of significant characters; entries on relatives, associates, locations, critics, and extra; and appendixes, together with complete texts of vital modern stories (including Edgar Allan Poe's well-known evaluation of ''Twice-Told Tales''), a bibliography, a chronology of Hawthorne's lifestyles, and extra.

By Maria Herrera-Sobek, Helena Maria Viramontes

ISBN-10: 082631712X

ISBN-13: 9780826317124

This provocative mix of unique poetry, prose, feedback, and visible paintings records the continued progress of literature via and approximately Chicanas. via leading edge use of language and photographs, the artists represented right here discover girl sexuality, monetary and social injustice, gender roles, and the contributions of severe theory.Chicana Creativity and feedback, first released in 1988, contains poetry via Lorna Dee Cervantes, Lucha Corpi, Evangelina Vigil-Pin?n, Denise Ch?vez, and Naomi Quin?nez; prose by means of Alma E. Cervantes, Helena Mar?a Viramontes, Roberta Fern?ndez, and Sheila Ortiz Taylor; feedback by means of Tey Diana Rebolledo, Yvonne Yarbro-Bejarano, Norma Alarc?n, and Mar?a Herrera-Sobek; and artwork by means of Carmen Lomas Garza, Yreina Cerv?ntez, and Laura Aguilar.

By Brian Jones, Geoff Hamilton

ISBN-10: 1476600538

ISBN-13: 9781476600536

This encyclopedia introduces readers to American poetry, fiction and nonfiction with a spotlight at the surroundings (broadly outlined as humanity's average surroundings), from the invention of the United States in the course of the current. The paintings comprises biographical and literary entries on fabric from early explorers and colonists akin to Columbus, Bartolome de Las Casas and Thomas Harriot; via local American construction myths; canonical 18th- and 19th-century works of Jefferson, Emerson, Thoreau, Whitman, Hawthorne, Twain, Dickinson, et al.; to more moderen figures corresponding to Jack London, Ernest Hemingway, Norman Mailer, Stanley Cavell, Rachel Carson, Jon Krakauer and Al Gore. it's intended to supply a synoptic appreciation of the way the very idea of our surroundings has replaced over the last 5 centuries, providing either a basic creation to the subject and a useful source for prime tuition and collage classes eager about environmental matters.

By Dorrit Claire Cohn

This publication investigates the complete spectrum of suggestions for portraying the psychological lives of fictional characters in either the stream-of-consciousness novel and different fiction. every one bankruptcy offers with one major strategy, illustrated from quite a lot of 19th- and twentieth-century fiction by way of writers together with Stendhal, Dostoevsky, James, Mann, Kafka, Joyce, Proust, Woolf, and Sarraute.

By Theresa M. Towner

ISBN-10: 0521671558

ISBN-13: 9780521671552

ISBN-10: 0521855462

ISBN-13: 9780521855464

"This introductory publication presents scholars and readers of Faulkner with a transparent evaluation of the lifestyles and paintings of 1 of America's so much prolific writers of fiction. His nineteen novels, together with The Sound and the Fury, As I Lay demise, pass Down, Moses, and Absalom, Absalom!, are mentioned intimately, as are his significant brief tales and nonfiction. excited by the works themselves, but in addition delivering worthy information approximately their serious reception, this creation is an available advisor to Faulkner's tough and complicated oeuvre."--BOOK JACKET. Read more...

By Sacvan Bercovitch

ISBN-10: 0521301076

ISBN-13: 9780521301077

Quantity three covers a pivotal period within the formation of yank id in addition to an enduring multi-faceted literary tradition within the usa. 4 major students attach the literature with the large expansive ancient adjustments then underway. The narratives of Richard Brodhead, Nancy Bentley, Walter Benn Michaels and Susan L. Mizruchi represent a wealthy and distinctive account of yank literature and tradition that started to include a large spectrum of cultural outsiders in addition to excessive literature via William Dean Howells and Henry James.

By Louisa May Alcott

ISBN-10: 1407015362

ISBN-13: 9781407015361

Overview

Life within the March loved ones is filled with adventures and injuries because the 4 very diverse March sisters persist with their various paths to maturity, constantly keeping the precise bond among them. brilliant Meg, impetuous Jo, shy Beth and inventive Amy each one need to confront assorted demanding situations as they develop up jointly and try to easy methods to be either chuffed and good.

Chronicles the funny and nostalgic fortunes of the 4 March sisters as they develop into younger women and marry in nineteenth-century New England.

By Willa Cather

ISBN-10: 1443432334

ISBN-13: 9781443432337

O Pioneers! is a 1913 novel by means of American writer Willa Cather. It was once written partly while Cather was once dwelling in Cherry Valley, big apple, with Isabelle McClung and used to be accomplished on the McClungs' domestic in Pittsburgh. The ebook is quantity eighty three at the American Library Association's checklist of most often banned or challenged books.

O Pioneers! tells the tale of the Bergsons, a family members of Swedish immigrants within the farm nation close to the fictitious city of Hanover, Nebraska, on the flip of the 20 th century. the most personality, Alexandra Bergson, inherits the relatives farmland while her father dies, and he or she devotes her existence to creating the farm a workable firm at a time whilst different immigrant households are giving up and leaving the prairie. the unconventional can be curious about romantic relationships, one among Alexandra and family members pal Carl Linstrum and one other among Alexandra's brother Emil and the married Marie Shabata. - from Wikipedia

By Andy Adams

ISBN-10: 0143039687

ISBN-13: 9780143039686

Straightforwardly instructed, wealthy intimately, and laced with beautiful campfire humor, Andy Adams's lifelike The Log of a Cowboy is a vintage portrayal of the western livestock nation. Drawing on his personal reviews as a cowboy operating in livestock and horse drives, Adams provides a shiny portrait of the demanding situations of path existence on a farm animals force from Texas to Montana—the day-by-day drudgery of livestock trailing, in addition to the dramatic stampedes and different treacherous disruptions. Populated by means of a wide selection of well-drawn, energetic characters, The Log of a Cowboy continues to be the landmark novel of the yankee West a century after its first visual appeal. this is often the 1st version of this paintings released as a Penguin Classic. 

By Barbara H. Solomon

ISBN-10: 1101160276

ISBN-13: 9781101160275

Gathered for the 1st time in a single volume.

How does money—or the shortcoming of it—affect our lives? What occurs whilst the wealthy meet the terrible, whilst prestige comes with a cost tag, while own wants do conflict with monetary matters? This particular anthology bargains a mosaic of solutions, with tales by:

T.C. Boyle
Barbara Kingsolver
Alice Walker
John Cheever
Francine Prose
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Jack London
Kate Chopin
Ethan Canin
Gloria Naylor
Sandra Cisneros
O. Henry
Theodore Dreiser
Stephen Crane
Kate Braverman
James T. Farrell
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
and extra.