Title American history through literature, 1820-1870 / Janet Gabler-Hover and Robert Sattelmeyer, editors-in-chief.| [Gale electronic resource]

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Detroit, Mich. : Charles Scribner's Sons, 2006.

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Description	1 online resource (3 volumes (xxi, 1424 pages)) : illustrations
Series	Gale eBooks
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents	v. 1. abolitionist writing to gothic fiction -- v. 2. Harpers ferry to quakers -- v. 3. "The Raven" to "Young Goodman Brown" and index.
Summary	Presents literature not as a simple inventory of authors or titles but rather as a historical and cultural field viewed from a wide array of contemporary perspectives. The set, which is "new historicist" in its approach to literary criticism, endorses the notion that not only does history affect literature, but literature itself informs history.
Subject	American literature -- 19th century -- Encyclopedias.
	Literature and history -- United States -- History -- 19th century -- Encyclopedias.
	History in literature -- Encyclopedias.
	United States -- History -- 19th century -- Historiography -- Encyclopedias.
Added Author	Gabler-Hover, Janet, editor.
	Sattelmeyer, Robert, editor.
	Gale Group.
Other Form:	Print version: American history through literature, 1820-1870. Detroit, Mich. : Charles Scribner's Sons, c2006 9780684314600
ISBN	9780684314921 (electronic book)
	0684314924 (electronic book)
	9780684314600 (set : alk. paper)
	0684314606 (set : alk. paper)
	9780684314617 (v. 1 : alk. paper)
	0684314614 (v. 1 : alk. paper)
	9780684314624 (v. 2 : alk. paper)
	0684314622 (v. 2 : alk. paper)
	9780684314631 (v. 3 : alk. paper)
	0684314630 (v. 3 : alk. paper)

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