INTEGRATED STUDY American History Through Literature, 1870-1920 provides a standard reference for American literature in its broadest cultural context
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Integrated study
American History Through Literature,
1870-1920
provides a standard reference for American literature in its broadest cultural context. In doing so, this interdisciplinary work offers a comprehensive overview of American history through a literary lens. Breaking free of the typical treatment of history and literature as separate disciplines, this set recognizes that the study of literature and history are necessarily intertwined.
Taking a "new historicist" approach
to literary criticism, American History
Through Literature
endorses the notion that not only does history affect literature, but literature itself informs history.MultIple perspectIves
Analyzing a wide range of classics in
American literature as cultural and
historical documents, this unique set cultivates critical skills in reading texts from various perspectives, including aesthetic, biographical, social, historical, racial and gendered. Designed for general readers and post-secondary researchers alike,
American History Through Literature,
1870-1920
presents literature not as a simple inventory of authors or titles, but rather as a historical and cultural field viewed from a wide array of contemporary perspectives. It encompasses discussions relating to ethnicity, religion, culture, major events, genres, academic disciplines, ideas in context, society, values, politics and publishing venues, as well as major works of fiction and nonfiction . AmericAn History tHrougH Liter
Ature, 1870-1920 features:
Scholarship from approximately
200 contributors representing
departments of English, history, religion, and American Studies Sidebars offering timelines, additional historical context and annotated excerpts of related primary texts Appendix featuring a bibliography of primary 19th-century American literary texts that encourages further study Approximately 200 illustrations clarifying and enlivening the text Thoughtful cross-referencing that facilitates multidisciplinary understanding of the subject
American History
t hrough
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IMpressIve range of coverage
With its integrated approach,
American
History Through Literature, 1870-1920
offer is a unique overview of the period following the Civil War through the emergence of the United States as a world power at the end of World War I.
Readers will find the major facts about
the period, clear explanations of the main lines of scholarly interpretation, and guidance through recent scholarly controversies. Arranged in alphabetical order, the approximately 250 survey entries address subjects of interest to students of
American literature, society, culture, and
ideas.
American History Through Literature,
1820-1870
includes articles such as: "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" Assimilation
The Battle of Little Bighorn
Children's Literature Chinese Civil War Memoirs Copyright Darwinism Education Illustrations and Cartoons Indians Labor Law Enforcement Little Big Horn Mass Marketing Music "My Antonia" Naturalism Photography Populism Poverty Realism Reform Science Fiction
Scientific Materialism
"Scribner's Magazine" Spanish-American War St. Louis World's Fair Success "Tarzan of the Apes" "The Theory of the Leisure Class" The Western Women and Economics Women's Suffrage
1st. Ed. About 1,500 pp. in 3 vols.
2005.
ISBN 0-684-31464-9.
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