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Nov 5, 2009
Nathaniel Hawthorne and Sophia Peabody: Author of The Scarlet Letter's Courtship and Marriage
By: Vickie Britton
Nov 3, 2009
Themes in Sister Carrie: Theodore Dreiser Connects Money and Morality
By: Eva Gordon
Nov 2, 2009
The Origin of Rip Van Winkle: Washington Irving’s Classic American Folktale Had Antecedents
By: John K. Davis
Nov 1, 2009
Willa Cather's Childhood in Red Cloud, Nebraska: Cather's Early Years Inspired My Antonia, O Pioneers, Paul's Case
By: Vickie Britton
Oct 29, 2009
Henry Miller's Tropic of Cancer; Sex, Lust, Art: Controversial Novel Detailing Sexual Experiences Sparks Discussions
By: Yahan Wu
Oct 23, 2009
Literature Review – Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451: Dystopic American Literature on Censorship, Reality TV
By: Nicholas Morine
Oct 11, 2009
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Its Origins: Washington Irving’s Halloween Ghost Story of the Headless Horseman
By: John K. Davis
Oct 7, 2009
The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton: A 21st Century Feminist Criticism
By: Holly Anderson
Oct 5, 2009
A Rose for Emily by William Faulkner: Plot Summary of Faulkner’s Short Story
By: Jeris Swanhorst
Sep 30, 2009
Young Goodman Brown by Nathaniel Hawthorne: Reviewing a 19th Century Creepy Classic
By: Roberta Laurie
Sep 30, 2009
The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Gilman Perkins: A Review of Gilman's Classic Tale of Psychological Terror
By: Roberta Laurie
Sep 25, 2009
Emerson Redefines the Concept of Reason: "Nature" Essay Conflates Ideas of Intuition, Faith, and Imagination
By: Angela Zito
Sep 23, 2009
Ambrose Bierce: A Writer Forged by the Civil War
By: Kristin Hanneman
Sep 22, 2009
The Ghosts in the Stories of Henry James: The Jolly Corner, The Turn of the Screw and Other Works
By: Vickie Britton
Sep 19, 2009
Knowledge is Misery in The Giver by Lois Lowry: Ignorance Keeps Pain Out of Utopian Societies
By: Nadia Santiago
Sep 15, 2009
Blue Shadows Farm by Wisconsin Writer Jerry Apps: Fictional Story of a Civil War Veteran Homesteading a Family Farm
By: Christine Eirschele
Sep 12, 2009
The San Francisco Beat Writers: The Other Poets, Activists and Literary Artists of the Beat Movement
By: Jennifer Berube
Sep 7, 2009
The Reed College Beat Writers: The Other Poets, Activists and Literary Artists of the Beat Movement
By: Jennifer Berube
Sep 7, 2009
The First New York Beat Writers: The Other Poets, Activists and Literary Artists of the Beat Movement
By: Jennifer Berube
Sep 7, 2009
The Beat Generation in New York: The Other Poets, Activists and Literary Artists of the Beat Movement
By: Jennifer Berube
Sep 7, 2009
The Women Behind Kerouac and Ginsberg: The Inspiration, Muses, Great Loves and Losses of the Original Beats
By: Jennifer Berube
Sep 7, 2009
The Women Behind Burroughs, Kerouac and Cassady: The Inspiration, Muses, Great Loves and Losses of the Original Beats
By: Jennifer Berube
Sep 5, 2009
Paul's Case by Willa Cather-An Analysis: Cather's Most Significant Short Story About Spirituality VS Reality
By: Vickie Britton
Sep 4, 2009
Disappearances in the Stories of Ambrose Bierce: Chilling Tales of the Unexplained in Late 19th Century America
By: Michelle White
Sep 2, 2009
The Ghost Stories of Edith Wharton: The Spooky Colliding with the Everday in Turn-of-the-Century America
By: Michelle White
Sep 1, 2009
Jack Kerouac and the Other Original Beat Writers: The Cultural Movement That Came to be known as the Beat Generation
By: Jennifer Berube
Aug 30, 2009
Theme in Jack London's To Build a Fire: Man v. Nature in London’s Short Story
By: Jeris Swanhorst
Aug 27, 2009
Atlas Shrugged Delivers Timeless Message: Big Business Versus Big Government
By: Patricia Faulhaber
Aug 23, 2009
Huckelberry Finn and the Great American Novel: A Journey of Morality as Youth Grows Up
By: George Garza
Aug 20, 2009
Social Symbolism in The Scarlet Letter: The Numerous Important Social Symbols in Nathaniel Hawthorne’s Book
By: Bailey Shoemaker Richards
Aug 20, 2009
Religious Symbolism in The Scarlet Letter: The Importance of Religion in Nathaniel Hawthorne’s Book
By: Bailey Shoemaker Richards
Aug 9, 2009
"The Mysterious Rider" Predictable, but Engaging: Zane Grey's Book Filled With Stereotypes, but Enjoyable Nonetheless
By: R.L. Coffield
Jul 24, 2009
Literature Review – Steinbeck's "Tortilla Flat": American Classic Lit Bearing Themes of Poverty, Love, Friendship
By: Nicholas Morine
Jul 20, 2009
Book Review of East of Eden: John Steinbeck´s Epic Novel Draws Readers In
By: Yirssi Bergman
Jul 16, 2009
Theme in The Great Gatsby: F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Novel of Illusions
By: Jeris Swanhorst
Jul 3, 2009
Book Review of At Fault by Kate Chopin: A Classic Novel From One of America’s Most Notable Literary Voices
By: Michelle Bailat-Jones
Jun 11, 2009
The Last of the Mohicans: James Fenimore Cooper's Classic
By: Samantha Markham
Jun 9, 2009
Dancing To Henderson the Rain King: Saul Bellow's Novel of Africa is Still a Joy to Behold
By: Douglas Nordfors
Jun 9, 2009
Herman Melville and Moby-Dick: The Writer and Great American Novel Re-examined
By: William Padgett
Jun 4, 2009
Little Women: Louisa May Alcott's Perennial Best-Seller
By: Samantha Markham
Jun 3, 2009
Short Story Summer Reading: Five Short Stories That Should be on One's College Prep Reading List
By: Cynthia Jones-Shoeman
Jun 1, 2009
Book Review of Revolutionary Road: Richard Yates’s First Novel
By: Jeris Swanhorst
Apr 27, 2009
Moby Dick – An Analysis: Herman Melville's Tale of The Big White Whale
By: Samantha Markham
Mar 31, 2009
The Life of Ayn Rand: The Story of the Author of Atlas Shrugged, 1905-1957
By: Jeffrey Donaldson
Mar 26, 2009
A-G Famous American Literature: Ernest Hemingway, Washington Irving, Henry James, Harper Lee…
By: M.L. Costa
Mar 26, 2009
H-N Famous American Literature: Ernest Hemingway, Washington Irving, Henry James, Harper Lee…
By: M.L. Costa
Mar 26, 2009
O-T Famous American Literature: Eugene O’Neill, Edgar Allan Poe, Robert Frost, Mark Twain…
By: M.L. Costa
Mar 26, 2009
U-Z Famous American Literature: Tennessee Williams, Edith Wharton, F. Scott Fitzgerald…
By: M.L. Costa
Mar 7, 2009
Irony in Edgar Allan Poe's Works: The Cask of Amontillado and Tell-Tale Heart
By: Gwendolyn Cuizon
Mar 6, 2009
Burmese Days: Book Review: George Orwell is a Master of His Craft
By: Todd Christopher Petty
Feb 27, 2009
Review: On the Road: Hitting the Highway With Jack Kerouac
By: Jennifer Berube
Feb 19, 2009
Zane Grey - Riders of the Purple Sage: A Closer Examination of Grey's Use of Figurative Language
By: John Hansen
Jan 29, 2009
The Alphabet and The Devil's Dictionary: Ambrose Bierce's Parody Subverts Its Own Ordering Principle
By: Luke Arnott
Jan 20, 2009
Coming of Age in 'I Want to Know Why': Boy's Hero Falls from Grace in Sherwood Anderson's Short Story
By: David Alliger
Jan 10, 2009
Sherwood Anderson's I Want to Know Why: Anderson’s Young Protagonist Learns Life Lesson About Betrayal
By: Cicely A. Richard
Jan 6, 2009
Most Important American Authors: Hawthrone, Melville, Whitman, and Twain Produced American Classics
By: Ret Talbot
Dec 23, 2008
John Steinbeck's Philosophy on Human Strength: Grapes of Wrath Characters Reflected in Steinbeck's Nobel Speech
By: Christine Deakers
Dec 18, 2008
The Grapes of Wrath and Biblical Allusions: John Steinbecks References the Holy Book
By: Christine Deakers
Dec 18, 2008
The Grapes of Wrath and the American Religion: John Steinbeck Writes About Oakies' Religion
By: Christine Deakers
Dec 15, 2008
The Basil & Josephine Stories: F. Scott Fitzgerald's Youthful Short Story Collection
By: Dale Van Every
Dec 13, 2008
Understanding Hills Like White Elephants: A Quick How to for Understanding an Ernest Hemingway Classic
By: Derek Clendening
Dec 11, 2008
The Great Gatsby's Summer & American Dream: F. Scott Pursues Seasonal Imagery to Describe the Loss of Hope.
By: Christine Deakers
Dec 11, 2008
Flashback and Night and Day in the Great Gatsby: F. Scott Fitzgerald Writes About Time Destroying Opportunity
By: Christine Deakers
Dec 5, 2008
Gone With The Wind by Margaret Mitchell: A Classic Historical Novel, America's War and Peace
By: Karen Murdarasi
Nov 12, 2008
The American Dream in "The Great Gatsby": A Quest for Power, Fame and Fortune in Fitzgerald’s Classic Novel
By: Jenna Galley
Nov 4, 2008
The Real Scarlet Letter by Nathanial Hawthorne: A Novel about Patriotism and Politics, not Rosebushes or Embroidery
By: Ret Talbot
Nov 4, 2008
F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby: Fitzgerald’s Gatsby Symbolizes the Illusion of American Dream
By: Cicely A. Richard
Oct 29, 2008
A Review of 'Tender is The Night': F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Romantic Tragedy
By: Jen Syrkiewicz
Oct 22, 2008
John Steinbeck's The Pastures Of Heaven: East of Eden Author's First Short Story Cycle
By: Dale Van Every
Oct 21, 2008
Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin: How the Story of Slavery Changed History
By: Cicely A. Richard
Oct 12, 2008
Joe Christimas' Treament of Women: Sexism in William Faulkner's Light in August
By: Allison D. Schisler
Oct 12, 2008
Joe Christimas' Treament of Women: Sexism in William Faulkner's Light in August
By: Allison D. Schisler
Oct 12, 2008
From Yoknapatawpha County to Jefferson: Female Protagonists of William Faulkner's As I Lay Dying
By: Allison D. Schisler
Oct 11, 2008
From Yoknapatawpha County to Jefferson: Female Protagonists of William Faulkner's As I Lay Dying
By: Allison D. Schisler
Sep 5, 2008
F. Scott Fitzgerald's Short Stories: Novelist's Most Prolific Writing Was For Popular Magazines
By: Dale Van Every
Aug 19, 2008
Desiree's Baby: Manifest Destiny and Providence: How Colonialist Ideology Facilitated American Slavery
By: Douglas Allen Rhodes
Jul 31, 2008
Review of Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry: Pulitzer Prize Epic of the American West
By: Jessica Workman
Jul 27, 2008
Thomas Clayton Wolfe: American Author of Autobiographical and Depression-Era Novels
By: Vickie Britton
Jul 11, 2008
The Deeper Value of The Scarlet Letter: Themes of Humanity Behind Hawthorne's Great American Classic
By: Brody Slostad
Jul 7, 2008
Walker's The Color Purple: Celie Storms The Castle (Figuratively Speaking)
By: Jessica Gleason
Jul 7, 2008
Death Comes for the Archbishop: Willa Cather's Most-Studied Novel with Southwestern Setting
By: Vickie Britton
Jul 4, 2008
Thomas Wolfe: Four of the Greatest Autobiographical Novels
By: Vickie Britton
Jun 26, 2008
Call of the Wild Relevant Today: Yukon Survival--Not for Children, or the Sqeamish, or Faint of Heart
By: Jeannie Delahunt
May 24, 2008
O'Henry's "The Gift of the Magi": The Power of Setting in Literature
By: Richard DeWayne Morris
May 3, 2007
True Crime: An American Tragedy: The Murder Trial That Inspired Theodore Dreiser's Novel
By: Meg Nola
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