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The Hidden Hand (Oxford Popular Fiction)

1 review
E. D. E. N. Southworth

Oxford University Press, USA, 1997

Reclaiming sentimental fiction
Southworth's novel maniupulates many of the tropes of sentimental fiction in a uniquely subversive way. She stuffs it all within her pages- the damsel in distress, the dastardly villian, the orphan- but ultimately achieves a surprisingly feminist ideology. Her heroine, Capitola, is self reliant, creative, and genuinely heroic. She romps through Southworth's pages comically overturning many of ...

The Awakening & Selected Stories (Modern Library)

4 reviews
Kate Chopin, Nina Baym

Modern Library, 1993

The quintessential edition of an essential work.
Like far too many, I was first introduced to Chopin in college. As an educator, I find Chopin's work to be timeless. Chopin speaks to contemporay society--and especially American society--in ways that few authors can and do. I use "The Awakening," as one of the cornerstones (yes; one may have more than one cornerstone) of my literature class--a class that relies on trade publications rather ...

The Norton Anthology of American Literature, Package 2: Volumes C, D, and E

3 reviews

W. W. Norton, 2007

Norton Rocks
Norton is always an excellent choice in anthology for literature!! The indexes and bibliographies are wonderful resources! Many college literature classes use the Norton as their text of choice.

The Norton Anthology of American Literature, Shorter Seventh Edition, One-Volume Paperback (Norton Anthology)

3 reviews

W. W. Norton, 2007

GREAT COMPILATION!
This is one of the few text books that will remain a permanent part of my library. A wonderfully concise compilation of American Literature. From beginning of the United States to the modern writers of importance. Speaking Of modern fiction writers do check out Misfits Country.

The Lamplighter (American Women Writers)

5 reviews
Maria S. Cummins, Nina Baym

Rutgers University Press, 1988

Moving, well written, beautiful period piece.
This book was a surprise. As my mother told me often of a book her mother read to her as a child and longed to have a copy of this book, I used a search company to locate this book. Having found this on the Amazon search I have ordered copies for all my aunts as well as my daughter and nieces. My mother was a very poor child and their books were extremely limited, the last book her mother read ...

The Norton Anthology of American Literature, Sixth Edition, Volume A: Literature to 1820

2 reviews

W. W. Norton & Company, 2002

Good Book
Well for school purposes this definately does the trick and at a slightly lower price than I would have had to pay for it at my school's bookstore.

The Scarlet Letter (Penguin Classics)

405 reviews
Nathaniel Hawthorne

Penguin Classics, 2002

A wonderful piece of literature, however
I completely agree with most HS students that this book should be optional reading for them because HS teachers should very well know that there are many different minds that need very different kinds of reading material and exposure to variety is not always a good thing that's why you end up having reviews of books like this by some HS students who puke on it rather then have savored it like I ...

The Norton Anthology of American Literature

21 reviews
Nina Baym, Edith Wharton

W W Norton & Co Inc (Np), 1998

Fast Secure Shipping!
The college bookstore was TOO busy this semester. I took a couple of minutes and LOTS OF FAITH in ordering the volumes on-line. This order was shipped and at my home before I could blink!

The Norton Anthology of American Literature, Seventh Edition: Volume B: 1820-1865

1 review

W. W. Norton, 2007

Thanks!
The book was exactly what I was needing. It was in good shape as promised.

The Norton Anthology of American Literature, Package 1: Volumes A and B

2 reviews

W. W. Norton, 2007

Cheaper than the University Bookstore
I havent even taken this book from it's packaging, but all I know for sure is that I paid far less on Amazon than I would have at the University Bookstore and that's all that needs to be said. I give this book 5 stars for that reason alone.

The Awakening and Other Stories (Modern Library Classics)

5 reviews
Kate Chopin

Modern Library, 2000

a counterpoint to the last review
I got turned on to KC in college through one story--The Storm--and a little background on her (she wrote ahead of her time, was published and then forgotten until the 1960's Feminist Movement dug her up again). She became one of those authors I lodge in the back of my head to investigate later. I happened upon this wonderful book at the book tent at New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Fest and grabbed ...

Woman's Fiction

2 reviews
Nina Baym

Cornell University Press, 1980

Pioneering and path-breaking study
Nina Baym's pioneering study paved the way for the recovery of nineteenth-century American women novelists, writers who were "disappeared" by literary critics in the first half of the twentieth century intent on creating a pantheon of American literature peopled only by male writers (with the exception of Emily Dickinson). Indeed, Nina Baym is one of the "founding mothers" of scholarship on ...

American Women of Letters and the Nineteenth-Century Sciences: Styles of Affiliation
Nina Baym

Rutgers University Press, 2001

The Norton Anthology of American Literature, Package 1: Volumes A-B

7 reviews

W. W. Norton & Company, 2002

Not revisionism, breadth
The reviewer who complains about the great authors being excluded in favour of the mediocre is missing the point. For me, to study American literature is not just to study the great works. Instead, it's to study American literature. That includes slave songs, native American chants, and anything else that was produced with a commitment to art and expression rather than simple commerce. We can't, ...

The Norton Anthology of American Literature, Shorter Seventh Edition, Volume 2: 1865 to the Present

2 reviews

W. W. Norton, 2007

lol
tiffany, grow up and try to open your mind. illiteracy is a dying sport. this book is great.

The Norton Anthology of American Literature, Shorter Seventh Edition, Volume 1: Beginnings to 1865 (Norton ...

1 review

W. W. Norton, 2007

Need Refund! Returned Book!!!!
I have taken this book back a fews ago. Where is my refund? It has been less than 30 days. Please email me back with details. I cannot review this book because I returned it.

The Scarlet Letter: A Romance (The Penguin American Library)

2 reviews
Nathaniel Hawthorne

Penguin Classics, 1983

Challenging the Norm in Puritannical America
I'm sure most of you have heard of the book by Nathaniel Hawthorne, "The Scarlet Letter". Hawthorne weaves a tale of hardship, struggle, and victory as we follow the life of Hester Prynne, a woman who has had a child out of wedlock, whom she names Pearl. She is shunned from the community, refuses to confess the identity of Pearl's father, and is forced to wear a letter "A" on her dress, the ...

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