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Author: Adam Augustyn Assistant Manager and Assistant Editor, Literature
Publisher: The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
Published: 2010-08-15
Total Pages: 500
ISBN-13: 1615301321
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Explores the works, writers, and movements that shaped the American literary canon from the end of the nineteenth century through the first half of the twentith.
Author: Britannica Educational Publishing
Publisher: Britannica Educational Publishing
Published: 2010-04-01
Total Pages: 250
ISBN-13: 1615302344
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Deviating from the romanticism of earlier works, American literature that emerged after the mid-19th century adopted a distinct realism and an often critical view of American society. With penetrating analyses, writers such as Henry Adams and Upton Sinclair exposed fundamental flaws in government and industry, while Mark Twain and H.L. Mencken incisively satirized social ills such as prejudice and intolerance. Readers will encounter these and other great minds whose fluid pens challenged the status quo.
Author: Adam Augustyn Assistant Manager and Assistant Editor, Literature
Publisher: The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
Published: 2010-08-15
Total Pages: 476
ISBN-13: 1615301240
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Traces the progress of the written word as America was evolving as a nation.
Author: Sacvan Bercovitch
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1997-01-28
Total Pages: 846
ISBN-13: 9780521585712
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Volume I of The Cambridge History of American Literature was originally published in 1997, and covers the colonial and early national periods and discusses the work of a diverse assemblage of authors, from Renaissance explorers and Puritan theocrats to Revolutionary pamphleteers and poets and novelists of the new republic. Addressing those characteristics that render the texts distinctively American while placing the literature in an international perspective, the contributors offer a compelling new evaluation of both the literary importance of early American history and the historical value of early American literature.
Author: Maryemma Graham
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2011-02-03
Total Pages: 861
ISBN-13: 0521872170
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A major new history of the literary traditions, oral and print, of African-descended peoples in the United States.
Author: Paul S. Boyer
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2012-08-16
Total Pages: 182
ISBN-13: 0199911657
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This volume in Oxford's A Very Short Introduction series offers a concise, readable narrative of the vast span of American history, from the earliest human migrations to the early twenty-first century when the United States loomed as a global power and comprised a complex multi-cultural society of more than 300 million people. The narrative is organized around major interpretive themes, with facts and dates introduced as needed to illustrate these themes. The emphasis throughout is on clarity and accessibility to the interested non-specialist.
Author: Nina Baym
Publisher: W. W. Norton
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 1220
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Includes outstanding works of American poetry, prose, and fiction from the Colonial era to the present day.
Author: Sarah N. Roth
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2014-07-21
Total Pages: 331
ISBN-13: 1139992805
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In the decades leading to the Civil War, popular conceptions of African American men shifted dramatically. The savage slave featured in 1830s' novels and stories gave way by the 1850s to the less-threatening humble black martyr. This radical reshaping of black masculinity in American culture occurred at the same time that the reading and writing of popular narratives were emerging as largely feminine enterprises. In a society where women wielded little official power, white female authors exalted white femininity, using narrative forms such as autobiographies, novels, short stories, visual images, and plays, by stressing differences that made white women appear superior to male slaves. This book argues that white women, as creators and consumers of popular culture media, played a pivotal role in the demasculinization of black men during the antebellum period, and consequently had a vital impact on the political landscape of antebellum and Civil War-era America through their powerful influence on popular culture.
Author: J. E. Luebering Manager and Senior Editor, Literature
Publisher: The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
Published: 2010-08-15
Total Pages: 267
ISBN-13: 1615301100
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Details the evolution of literature during a period representing a staggering amount of change, moving from one-dimensional action stories and religious lessons to stories with subtleties of plot and character development.
Author: J. E. Luebering Manager and Senior Editor, Literature
Publisher: The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
Published: 2010-08-15
Total Pages: 242
ISBN-13: 1615301151
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Introduces the elements considered essential to English literature, in which writing became more personal and had a new sense of humanity.
