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Claudia Hunter Johnson
Crafting Short Screenplays That Connect, Sixth Edition, stands alone among screenwriting books by emphasizing that human connection, though often overlooked, is as essential to writing effective screenplays as conflict. This…
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Theater Symposium, Volume 32 seeks to explore the collaborative interactions and ritual chains specific to performance during the collective reemergence into a hope filled post-COVID landscape. The contributors choose to…
Jane Austen
Catherine Morland’s sentimental illusions crumble as she enters into adulthood.
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Catherine Morland meets all the trappings of Gothic horror and imagines the worst. Disaster does eventually strike, as it does in the real world as distinct from the romantic one…
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Presents essays that examine class conflict and other related issues in The Great Gatsby, discussing such topics as class snobbery and education, the universality of class divisions, and humor and…
One of the most influential works in the canon of black American literature, Maya Angelou’s autobiographical work I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings offers readers a frank and inspirational…
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A compendium of information and opinion on gender issues in The color purple, including background on the author and perspectives on women’s issues in general.
Claudia Johnson
A story of national interest chronicling one woman’s struggle to restore literary classics to public classrooms of rural north Florida.
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Claudia Johnson Severin
Author Claudia J. Severin took things into her own hands when her genealogy research seemed limiting. Follow her foremothers, four mothers plucked from her family tree. She reimagines the lives…
Claudia Durst Johnson
Studies the everyday details of the colonists in New England and debunks myths that have been misrepresenting these people until now.
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Claudia L Johnson
A selection of Anti-Jacobin novels reprinted in full with annotations. The set includes works by male and female writers holding a range of political positions within the Anti-Jacobin camp, and…
An ideal student companion to understanding the novel with more than 40 primary documents that illuminate its historical context and thematic issues.
Responding directly to the era of U.S. politics known as McCarthyism, Arthur Miller’s 1953 play The Crucible positions the Salem witch trials at the center of a narrative that seeks…
A collection of essays discuss issues of gender, ethnicity, family, and class in Cisneros’s novel.
When the matriarch of the Bundren family dies, her family must confront the daunting task of transporting her body across the state of Mississippi for burial in her hometown. As…
The memoirs in the chapter Mark Twain’s Mississippi Valley illuminate the novel’s pastoral view of nature in conflict with a violent civilization resting on the institution of slavery and shaped…
Although John Steinbeck’s novellas Of Mice and Men, The Red Pony, and The Pearl are works of fiction, they provide a window on the history of the times and places…
When The Grapes of Wrath was published in 1939, it had an explosive effect on the public, calling attention to the problems of migrant farm workers during the Great Depression…
Examines Jack London’s The Call of the Wild from the Yukon Gold Rush to the animal rights issues confronting our society today.
Claudia D. Johnson
Series Editor: Robert Lecker, McGill University
Written in an easy-to-read, accessible style by teachers with years of classroom experience, Masterwork Studies are guides to the literary works most frequently studied…
Jane Austen pioneered the modern novel by focusing on realistic depictions of ordinary people, with an eye toward unraveling the social structures that ruled Victorian England. This volume explores the…
When an extramarital affair with a minister results in a child, Hester Pryne is publically shamed and ostracized by her community in Puritan Boston. Her subsequent attempts at a quiet…
Collection of essays discussing whether Mark Twain’s book is racist, the issue of race in the novel itself, and race relations in 21st century America.
This title offers an in-depth examination of colonialism as presented in Chinua Achebe’s novel Things Fall Apart, as well as contemporary perspectives on this issue. Discussions include the use of…
First published in 1847, Charlotte Bronte’s Jane Eyre follows the title character through her journey into womanhood, shedding critical insight into the roles morality, love, and independence play in the…
Colonialism in Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness: Background on Joseph Conrad; Colonialism in Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness; Contemporary Perspectives on Colonialism –
One of Kurt Vonnegut’s most influential works, Slaughterhouse-Five is a science fiction-inspired tale that touches upon the experiences of Billy Pilgrim, an American soldier, in the time before, during, and…
This compelling volume explores the poetry of Emily Dickinson through the lens of death and dying, offering readers a set of essays that present varied perspectives on Dickinson’s work and…
This important volume explores the Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass through the lens of slavery. Coverage includes an examination of Frederick Douglass’ life and influences, a look at…
Through these documents, the reader also gains a taste for the historical events which influenced the novel as well as the novel’s relevance in today’s world. The significant parallels of…
The first book-length study of Harper Lee’s two novels, this is the ultimate reference for those interested in Harper Lee’s writing, most notably as it considers race, class, and gender…
