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American History Through Literature 1870-1920 vol 1 by Tom Quirk, Tom Quirk, Gary Scharnhorst is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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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 The analysis of a wide range of classics in American literature, viewed as cultural and historical documents, cultivates critical skills in reading texts from various perspectives, including aesthetic, biographical, social, historical, racial and gendered.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.

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Author

Tom Quirk, Tom Quirk, Gary Scharnhorst

Publisher

Charles Scribners Sons/Reference

Published

2005

Language

EN

ISBN

9780684314655

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

History, Literary Fiction, Literary Criticism