historical fiction, american

Presents over forty historical documents, essays, and interviews that provide context for Willa Cather's novels "O Pioneers!" and "My Antonia.".

Collects critical essays on William Faulkner's "Absalom, Absalom!" including selections by Nicole Moulinoux, Aimee E. Berger, Richard Forrer, and others; and includes a chronology of the life of the author.

The summer of 1855 was an important one for Louisa May Alcott. At the age of twenty-two, she longs to free herself from family and societal constraints and do what she loves most. But love complicates her decision and she finds she must make a difficult choice. Mixing fact and fiction, this novel re-creates that summer.

An annotated compilation of 154 books selected and arranged to present aspects of American history through fiction.

A bibliography of American historical fiction listing 3,048 novels published from 1917 to 1984.

Provides assistance for elementary teachers in planning integrated units of study involving history, featuring summaries of fiction titles, with discussion starters and multidisciplinary activities; bridge and poetry titles; and nonfiction titles related to events in the 1600s, 1700s, 1800s, and 1900s.

An annotated listing of 201 historical fiction titles recommended as supplements to history texts for middle and secondary school students, arranged alphabetically within eight broad chronological and topical categories.

A critical study of the work of American author E.L. Doctorow, analyzing each of his eight novels in terms of his intentions, inventions, politics, creation of voice, taste for melodrama, and character types, and focusing on Doctorow's use of the family as the source of fascination and sympathy.

A guide to Hawthorne's "The Scarlet Letter", offering biographical information about the author, analysis of the text, a character list, and critical excerpts.