English 200 Level Courses: Ebooks

Covers American literature from the beginnings to the Revolutionary War. Dozens of study guides in this new resource examine a particular work, movement, author, or theme, helping high school and college students with their research and writing.

Examines American literature during the first years of the new nation. This new resource offers insightful strategies for studying and writing about early American literature, providing background information, productive areas of research, writing topics, and the best secondary sources for further study.

Explores American literature from 1820 up to the end of the Civil War. Topics covered include: Abolitionism and slavery Rebecca Davis's "Life in the Iron Mills" Frederick Douglass Ralph Waldo Emerson's Nature Exploration, expansion, and the frontier Gothicism Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter Harriet Jacobs's Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl Herman Melville's Moby-Dick Henry David Thoreau's Walden Walt Whitman's "Song of Myself" and many more.

Analyzes the literary trends of the American renaissance period and the pivotal works of such writers as Emerson, Thoreau, Alcott, Hawthorne, Poe, Dickinson, and Whitman.

The roles of exploration and colonization are discussed in ""Heart of Darkness,"" ""The Iliad, ""One Hundred Years of Solitude"", ""Things Fall Apart"", and other literary works. Featuring original essays and excerpts from previously published critical analyses, each book in the new ""Bloom's Literary Themes"" series gives students valuable insight into the title's subject theme.

Victorian England produced some of the greatest novelists in Western history, including Charles Dickens, Thomas Hardy, and George Eliot. Critical analysis focuses on the development of the Victorian novel though the second half of the 19th century.

An historical overview of the writers who helped create the basis for the modern novel, including Samuel Richardson (1689-1761) author of Pamela; Daniel Defoe (1660-1731) author of Robinson Crusoe and Moll Flanders, and Laurence Stern (1713-68), author of Tristram Shandy.

Perhaps best recognized for the horror films it has spawned, ""Frankenstein"", written by 19-year-old Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, was first published in 1818. ""Frankenstein: Or The Modern Prometheus"" warns against the ""advancements"" of modern man and the industrial revolution. Whether for research or general interest, ""Bloom's Modern Critical Interpretations"" furnishes students with a collection of the most insightful critical essays available on this Gothic thriller, selected from a variety of literary sources.

This eBook presents essay topics that provide research and writing suggestions on a range of novels in pre-1900 British literature.

This eBook presents essay topics that provide research and writing suggestions on a range of novels in post-1900 British literature.

Covers American literature from the second half of the 19th century up to the start of World War I. Informative study guides provide necessary background information on this time period, suggest helpful areas of research, and list the best secondary sources.

Covers American literature during the time of war and Depression in the first half of the 20th century. Topics covered include: T.S. Eliot's The Waste Land F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby Robert Frost Dashiell Hammett's The Maltese Falcon The Harlem Renaissance Langston Hughes Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath Writers on the boom and the crash and more.

Covers American literature during the postwar period. Topics covered include: The beat movement Confessional poetry Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird Literary responses to the civil rights movement and the black power movement Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman J.D. Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye Science fiction, spy fiction, and the cold war and more.

Determinism and self-reliance were two of the characteristics American authors sought to portray in the novels of this literary period, reflecting a more realistic view of their country as the age of industrialization took hold in the late 19th century.

From the origins of the movement in the 18th century to contemporary writers such as Stephen King, this A-to-Z guide to Gothic literature covers a vast array of works and writers from Britain and America, as well as a variety of genres - novels, short stories, poetry, plays, and even a few influential films and works of art.

Covers American literature in the contemporary period, leading up to the present day. Topics covered include: Sandra Cisneros's House on Mango Street Genre fiction and popular reading Jhumpa Lahiri's Interpreter of Maladies Literature and the environment David Mamet's Glengarry Glen Ross Toni Morrison's Beloved Multiculturalism and globalization Tim O'Brien's The Things They Carried Postmodernism John Updike's "Rabbit" novels and more.

Harlem in the 1920s and '30s was the epicenter of a flourishing in African-American literature with the poetry and prose of Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, Gwendolyn Brooks, and Claude McKay, to name a few. This volume examines the defining themes and styles of African-American literature during this period, which laid the groundwork for contemporary African-American writers.