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Social issues in literature
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Women's issues in Amy Tan's The Joy Luck Club
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Industrialism in John Steinbeck's the Grapes of Wrath
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Issues of class in Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice
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Male and female roles in Ernest Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises
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Greenhaven Press
Pub. Date
2008
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English
Description
Provides background on the life of American author Harper Lee and the influences that shaped her life, features twelve articles that explore racism as portrayed in her novel "To Kill a Mockingbird," and examines the ongoing issue of racism in the early twenty-first century.
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Racism in Maya Angelou's I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
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Suicide in Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman
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Women's issues in Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter
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Workers' rights in Upton Sinclair's The jungle
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Civil rights in Richard Wright's Native Son
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Coming of age in William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet
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Depression in J.D. Salinger's The catcher in the rye
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Genocide in Elie Wiesel's Night
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Peer pressure in Robert Cormier's The chocolate war
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Race relations in Alan Paton's Cry, the beloved country
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Racism in the autobiography of Malcolm X
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Violence in William Golding's Lord of the flies
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War in Joseph Heller's Catch-22
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The abuse of power in George Orwell's Nineteen eighty-four
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The American dream in John Steinbeck's of Mice and men
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Bioethics in Aldous Huxley's Brave new world
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Bioethics in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
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Corruption in William Shakespeare's Hamlet
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The environment in Henry David Thoreau's Walden
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Freedom of thought in Jerome Lawrence and Robert Edwin Lee's Inherit the wind
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Gender in Lorraine Hansberry's a Raisin in the Sun
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Mental illness in Ken Kesey's One flew over the cuckoo's nest
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Patriarchy in Sandra Cisneros's house on Mango Street
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Greenhaven Press
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
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Provides background on the life of English novelist George Orwell and his influences, features eleven articles that explore politics in his novel "Animal Farm," and examines contemporary perspectives on the political issues addressed in the novel.
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Social and psychological disorder in the works of Edgar Allan Poe
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Greenhaven Press
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
Each title in this series examines an important literary work through the lens of a major social issue with which the work is deeply entwined and includes biographical and critical information about the author, helping students navigate the intersection between literature and social studies and supporting cross-curricular studies of the world's enduring masterworks.
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Censorship in Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451
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Class conflict in Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights
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The environment in Rachel Carson's Silent Spring
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Genocide in Anne Frank's the Diary of a young girl
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Race in Ralph Ellison's Invisible man
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Tyranny in William Shakespeare's Julius Caesar
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War in John Knowles's A separate peace
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War in Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-five
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War in Tim O'Brien's The things they carried
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Women's issues in Alice Walker's The color purple
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Women's issues in Kate Chopin's The awakening
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Women's search for independence in Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre
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Colonialism in Joseph Conrad's Heart of darkness
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Depression in Sylvia Plath's The bell jar
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Greenhaven Press
Pub. Date
c2012
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English
Description
Provides background on the life of american novelist s. e. hinton and her influences, features sixteen articles that explore teenager issues in her novel "the outsiders," and examines teenage issues in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries.
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Poverty in John Steinbeck's The pearl
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Race in William Shakespeare's Othello
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Women's issues in Margaret Atwood's The handmaid's tale
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Women's issues in Zora Neale Hurston's Their eyes were watching God
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Coming of age in Sue Monk Kidd's The secret life of bees
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War in Erich Maria Remarque's All quiet on the Western front
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Death in Ernest Hemingway's The old man and the sea
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Sexuality in the comedies of William Shakespeare
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Sexuality in William Shakespeare's A midsummer night's dream
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Violence in Burgess' Clockwork Orange
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War in Ernest Hemingway's A farewell to arms
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Wildness in Jack London's The call of the wild
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