Thematic Guide to the American Novel

Author Lynda G. Adamson

Publisher Greenwood Publishing Group

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Lynda G. Adamson

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Greenwood Publishing Group

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2002

ISBN13

9780313076206

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eBook

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9th Grade - College Senior

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Overview

This resource provides readers with a systematic guide to the central themes in 150 of the most commonly taught American novels.
Front Cover.
Title Page.
Copyright Page.
Contents.
Acknowledgments.
Introduction.
Abandonment.
Absurdity of War.
Alienation.
American Dream.
Battered Women.
Being and Becoming.
Bereavement.
Betrayal.
Community.
Compassion.
Corrupting Power.
Courage.
Cultural Conflict.
Death.
Disabled.
Duty.
Emotional Abuse.
Family.
Fathers and Sons.
Friendship.
Greed.
Grotesques.
Healers.
Immigrant Life.
Imprisonment.
Independent Women.
Injustice.
Journeys.
Knowableness of God.
Loneliness.
Loss.
Love.
Male Behavior.
Masquerading.
Mothers and Daughters.
Multiracial Offspring.
Nature.
Oppression.
Outsiders.
Quests.
Rejection.
Responsibility.
Revealing Family History.
Search for a Father.
Search for Identity.
Storytelling.
Suicide.
Survival.
Trials.
Value of Land.
Appendix A: Additional Selected Themes and Topics.
Appendix B: Guide to Suggested Themes in 150 American Novels.
Author and Title Index.
Subject and Character Index.
About the Author.
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