Product Description: The activist tradition in American literature has long testified to the power of words to change people and the power of people to change the world, yet in recent years many professional humanists have chosen to distract themselves with a postmodern fundamentalism of indeterminacy and instability rather than engage with social and political issues...read more

Product Description: One of the most important activist texts in American Literature is now available in a thoroughly updated and revised Norton Critical Edition.In the nineteenth century, Uncle Tom’s Cabin sold more copies than any book in the world except the Bible...read more

Product Description: These novels played a unique and lasting role in the development of American literature, and each one remains a beloved and widely read work of fiction. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn?arguably the great American novel. Ethan Frome?an enduring rural tragedy...read more

Product Description: General for the Series: The Casebooks in Criticism introduce readers to the essential criticism on landmark works of literature and film. For each volume, a distinguished scholar who is an authority on the text has collected the most elucidating and distinctive scholarly essays on that work and added key supporting materials...read more

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The era in the United States between the Civil War and the end of World War I, was marked by increased nation-building, immigration, internal migration and racial tension. This period of time saw the rise of local colour literature, which described the peculiarities of regional life through "lived experiences". This anthology brings together works from every part of America, written by men and women of many cultures, ethnicities, ideologies and literary styles. The book features such familiar writers as Joel Chandler Harris, Kate Chopin, Hamlin Garland and Sarah Orne Jewett, and introduces less well-known voices like Sui Sin Far, Abraham Cahan and Zitkala-Sa. The writings illuminate varying concepts of the American identity and racial, class and ethnic stereotypes are both introduced and challenged in many of of the stories.

Collects stories by women authors from early twentieth century issues of the Colored American magazine and the Crisis

Product Description: The early 1890s through the late 1920s saw an explosion in serious long fiction by women in the United States. Considering a wide range of authors--African American, Asian American, white American, and Native American--this book looks at the work of seventeen writers from that period: Frances Ellen Harper, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Sarah Orne Jewett, Alice Dunbar-Nelson, Kate Chopin, Pauline Hopkins, Gertrude Stein, Mary Austin, Sui Sin Far, Willa Cather, Humishuma, Jessie Fauset, Edith Wharton, Ellen Glasgow, Anzia Yezierska, Edith Summers Kelley, and Nella Larsen...read more

Provides a comprehensive, authoritative survey of women's writing, history, and concerns covering four centuries of literature, examining various regions, ethnic focuses, and genres, and including voices as diverse as Kate Chopin, Annie Dillard, Wendy Wasserstein, Rachel Carson, and Susan B. Anthony. UP. (view table of contents)

Product Description: In the nineteenth century Uncle Tom's Cabin sold more copies than any other book in the world except the Bible.It was quickly translated into thirty-seven languages and has never gone out of print. The book had a far-reaching impact and deeply affected the national conscience of antebellum America...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This Norton Critical Edition of Edith Wharton's quintessential novel of the Gilded Age reprints the Scribner's magazine text of 1905, including the eight original illustrations.The text has been introduced and thoroughly annotated by the editor for student readers...read more