TY - BOOK AU - Quirk,Tom AU - Scharnhorst,Gary ED - Gale (Firm) TI - American history through literature, 1870-1920 T2 - Gale eBooks SN - 9780684314938 AV - PS217.H57PS228.H57 U1 - 810.935809034 23 PY - 2006/// CY - Detroit, Mich. PB - Charles Scribner's Sons KW - American literature KW - 19th century KW - Encyclopedias KW - Literature and history KW - United States KW - History KW - 20th century KW - History in literature KW - Historiography KW - Electronic books N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; v. 1. Addiction to ghost stories -- v. 2. Harper & brothers to poverty -- v. 3. Pragmatism to "The Yellow Wall-Paper" and index N2 - 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 UR - https://ezp.idm.oclc.org/login?url=https://link.gale.com/apps/pub/0SGK/GVRL?sid=gale_marc&u=lom_nwmichcoll ER -