english prose literature

Examines the works of a variety of authors including a concise biography, critical extracts, and bibliography of the author's separate publications: Anne Morrow Lindbergh, Mary McCarthy, Kate Millett, Anais Nin, Hester Thrale Piozzi, May Sarton, Gertrude Stein, Eudora Welty, Jade Snow Wong, Virginia Woolf.

Examines the works of a variety of authors including a concise biography, critical extracts, adn bibliography of the author's separate publications: Maya Angelou, Vera Brittain, Frances Fanny Burney, Annie Dillard, Janet Frame, Martha Gellhorn, Lillian Hellman, Violet Hunt, Zora Neale Hurston, Harriet Ann Jacobs, Alice James, Maxine Hong Kingston.

Presents a survey of the life and times of seventeenth-century English author John Milton, discussing his epic poems, "Paradise Lost," "Paradise Regained," and "Samson Agonistes," in the context of the times in which they were written.

Contains nine essays that describe how labor and workplace issues are presented in major works of literature such as Charles Dicken's "Hard Times" and John Steinbeck's "Grapes of Wrath," and includes plot summaries and historical background information.

Explores the use of voice, form, and setting in the works of twelve women authors who used their writings to construct a testament of their own identity, including Maya Angelou, Zora Neale Hurston, and Lillian Hellman.

Uses memoirs and essays from the twentieth century to demonstrate how the idea of self has changed over the last one hundred years.