American history through literature, 1870-1920 / editors in chief, Tom Quirk, Gary Scharnhorst.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Quirk, Tom, 1946- editor.

Scharnhorst, Gary, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American literature--19th century--Encyclopedias.

American literature.

Literature and history--United States--History--19th century--Encyclopedias.

Literature and history.

Literature and history--United States--History--20th century--Encyclopedias.

American literature--20th century--Encyclopedias.

History in literature--Encyclopedias.

History in literature.

United States--History--19th century--Historiography--Encyclopedias.

United States.

United States--History--20th century--Historiography--Encyclopedias.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1348 p.)

Edition:

001 ed.

Place of Publication:

Farmington Hills, Michigan : Thomson Gale, 2006.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This A-Z, cross-referenced and illustrated title provides 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. The set features more than 250 survey entries. Subjects include: political topics (Reform, Women's Suffrage); ideas in context (Scientific Materialism, Darwinism); values (Assimilation, Success); society (Labor, Mass Marketing); genres (Science Fiction, War Writing); popular entertainment (Baseball, Boxing); publishing (Scribner's Magazine); works of literature and nonfiction ("Billy Budd," "The Theory of the Leisure Class"); and much more. The analysis of a wide range of classics in American literature, viewed as cultural and historical documents, cultivates critical skills in reading texts from various perspectives, including aesthetic, biographical, social, historical, racial and gendered. Along with its companion title on the period covering 1820 to 1870, this set provides a comprehensive overview of a key century in American historical and literary studies.While Gale strives to replicate print content, some content may not be available in the eBook version due to rights restrictions. Call your Sales Rep for details.

Contents:

Front Cover ; Title Page; Editorial Board; Editorial and Production Staff; Contents; Acknowledgments; Preface; Volume 1 ; A ; Addiction; Adolescence; Adventures of Huckleberry Finn; Aestheticism; African Americans; Aging and Death; Agnosticism and Atheism; Agriculture; Alcoholism; The Ambassadors; American Indian Stories; The American Language; American Literature; Americans Abroad; The American Scene; Anarchism; Anglo-Saxonism; Annexation and Expansion; Anti-Intellectualism; Appeal to Reason; Art and Architecture; Arts and Crafts; Assimilation; The Atlantic Monthly; Autobiography

The Autobiography of An Ex-Colored ManThe Awakening; B ; Banking and Finance; Battle of The Little Bighorn; Best-sellers; The Bible; Billy Budd; Biography; The Birth of a Nation; Blacks; Bohemians and Vagabondia; Book Publishing; Boston and Concord; Boxing; Business and Industry Novels; C ; Capital Punishment; Catholics; Centennial; Century Magazine; Chicago; Chicago World's Fair; Children's Literature; Chinese; Christianity; Christianity and The Social Crisis; Christian Science; Circuses; City Dwellers; Civil Rights; Civil War Memoirs; Civil War Memorials and Monuments; Clubs and Salons

The Conjure WomanA Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court; Copyright; The Country of The Pointed Firs; Courtship, Marriage, and Divorce; Cross-ressing; D ; Daisy Miller; The Damnation of Theron Ware; Dance; Darwinism; Dime Novels; Disasters; Diseases and Epidemics; Divorce; Domestic and Sentimental Fiction; E ; Editors; Education; The Education of Henry Adams; The Emperor Jones; Ethnology; Evolution; F ; Farmers and Ranchers; Fashion; Feminism; Folklore and Oral Traditions; Food and Drink; Foreign Visitors; The Four Million; Free Love; Frontier; G ; Genteel Tradition; Ghost Stories

Volume 2 H ; Harper & Brothers; Harper's New Monthly Magazine; Haymarket Square; A Hazard of New Fortunes; Health and Medicine; Historical Romance; History; Homosexuality; Houghton Mifflin; The House of Mirth; Humor; I ; Illustrations and Cartoons; Imagism; Immigration; Imperialism and Anti-Imperialism; Impressionism; Indians; Indian Wars; Influenza Epidemic of 1918; In the Tennessee Mountains; Iola Leroy; Irish; JK ; Jews; Jim Crow; Journalism; The Jungle; Jurisprudence; Ku Klux Klan; L ; Labor; The Land of Little Rain; Law Enforcement; Lectures; Libraries; Literary Colonies

Literary CriticismLiterary Friendships; Literary Marketplace; Little Magazines and Small Presses; Lochner v. New York; "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock"; Lynching; Lyric Poetry; Lyrics of Lowly Life; M ; McClure's Magazine; McTeague; Maggie, a Girl of the Streets; Main Street; Main-travelled Roads; The Man Against the Sky; Marriage; The Marrow of Tradition; "The Marshes of Glynn"; Mass Marketing; Mexican Revolution; Migration; Miscegenation; Moon-Calf; Mormons; Motion Pictures; Mrs. Spring Fragrance; Muckrakers and Yellow Journalism; Murder; Museums; Music; My Ántonia

My First Summer in the Sierra

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ISBN:

9780684325286

0684325284