Social Issues
in Literature           

 

“Great literary works resonate with readers not only because of well-deserved characters and plots, but also because they often reflect important social themes. The Social Issues in Literature series brings together the disciplines of sociology and literature in a unique format designed to support cross-curricular studies.  Each volume explores a work of literature through the lens of the major social issue reflected in it, and features carefully-selected content representing a variety of perspectives.  All volumes in the series contain biographical and critical information about the author; secondary excepts offering both historical and contemporary views of the highlighted social issue; a timeline of the author’s life; a “For Further Reading” section of other works on the issue; and a detailed subject index.”

 

                                    

809.933                 Social issues in literature: Bioethics in Aldous Huxley's Brave new

SOC                      world / Dedria Bryfonski, book editor.  -- Detroit : Greenhaven Press,

                             c2010. -- (Social issues in literature)

                         

809.933                 Social issues in literature: Bioethics in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein

SOC                      / Gary Wiener, book editor.  -- Detroit : Greenhaven Press, c2010. -- (

                             Social issues in literature)

 

809.933                 Social issues in literature: Civil rights in Richard Wright's Native

SOC                      son / Candice L. Mancini, book editor.  -- Detroit : Greenhaven Press,

                             c2009. -- (Social issues in literature)

 

809.933                 Social issues in literature: Class conflict in F. Scott Fitzgerald's The

SOC                      great Gatsby / Claudia Johnson, book editor.  -- Detroit, MI :

                             Greenhaven Press, c2008. -- (Social issues in literature)

 

809.933                 Social issues in literature: Colonialism in Chinua Achebe's Things

SOC                      fall apart / Louise Hawker, book editor.  -- Detroit : Greenhaven Press,

                             c2010. -- (Social issues in literature)

 

809.933                 Social issues in literature: Coming of age in William Shakespeare's

SOC                      Romeo and Juliet / Vernon Elso Johnson, book editor.  -- Detroit :

                             Greenhaven Press, c2009. -- (Social issues in literature)

                                    

809.933                 Social issues in literature: Corruption in William Shakespeare's

SOC                      Hamlet / Vernon Elso Johnson, book editor.  -- Detroit : Greenhaven

                             Press, c2010. -- (Social issues in literature)

                                    

809.933                 Social issues in literature: Depression in J.D. Salinger's The catcher

SOC                      in the rye / Dedria Bryfonski, book editor.  -- Detroit : Greenhaven

                             Press, c2009. -- (Social issues in literature)

                                    

809.933                 Social issues in literature: Freedom of thought in Jerome Lawrence

SOC                      and Robert Edwin Lee's Inherit the wind / Candice Mancini, book

                             editor.  -- Detroit : Greenhaven Press, c2010. -- (Social issues in

                             literature)

 

809.933                 Social Issues in Literature: Gender in Lorraine Hansberry's A raisin

SOC                      in the sun / Gary Wiener, book editor.  -- Detroit, MI : Greenhaven

                             Press, c2011. -- (Social issues in literature)

 

809.933                 Social issues in literature: Genocide in Elie Wiesel's Night / Louise

SOC                      Hawker, book editor.  -- Detroit : Greenhaven Press, c2009. -- (Social

                             issues in literature)

                                    

809.933                 Social issues in literature: Industrialism in John Steinbeck's The

SOC                      grapes of wrath / Louise Hawker, book editor.  -- Detroit : Greenhaven

                             Press, c2008. -- (Social issues in literature)

                                    

809.933                 Social issues in literature: Issues of class in Jane Austen's Pride

SOC                      and prejudice / Claudia Durst Johnson, book editor.  -- Detroit [Mich.] :

                             Greenhaven Press, c2009. -- (Social issues in literature)

                                    

809.933                 Social issues in literature: Justice in Arthur Miller's The crucible /

SOC                      Claudia Durst Johnson, book editor.  -- Detroit : Greenhaven Press,

                             c2009. -- (Social issues in literature series)

                                    

809.933                 Social issues in literature: Male and female roles in Ernest

SOC                      Hemingway's The sun also rises / Dedria Bryfonski, editor.  --

                             Detroit, MI : Greenhaven Press/Gale, c2008. -- (Social issues in

                             literature)

                                    

809.933                 Social issues in literature: Mental illness in Ken Kesey's One flew

SOC                      over the cuckoo's nest / Dedria Bryfonski, book editor.  -- Detroit :

                             Greenhaven Press, c2010. -- (Social issues in literature)

                                    

809.933                 Social issues in literature: Patriarchy in Sandra Cisneros's The

SOC                      house on Mango Street / Claudia Durst Johnson, book editor.  --

                             Detroit : Greenhaven Press, c2010. -- (Social issues in literature)

                                    

809.933                 Social issues in literature: Peer pressure in Robert Cormier's The

SOC                      chocolate war / Dedria Bryfonski, book editor.  -- Detroit : Greenhaven

                             Press, c2010. -- (Social issues in literature)

                                    

809.933                 Social issues in literature: Political issues in J. K. Rowling's Harry

SOC                      Potter series / Dedria Bryfonski, book editor.  -- Detroit : Greenhaven

                             Press, c2009. -- (Social issues in literature)

                         

809.933                 Social issues in literature: Politics in George Orwell's Animal farm /

SOC                      Dedria Bryfonski, book editor.  -- Detroit : Greenhaven Press, c2010.

                             -- (Social issues in literature)

                                    

809.933                 Social issues in literature: Power in William Shakespeare's Macbeth

SOC                      / Vernon Elso Johnson, book editor.  -- Detroit : Greenhaven Press,

                             c2009. -- (Social issues in literature)

                                    

809.933                 Social issues in literature: Race in Mark Twain's Adventures of

SOC                      Huckleberry Finn / Claudia Durst Johnson, book editor.  -- Detroit :

                             Greenhaven Press, c2009. -- (Social issues in literature)

                                    

809.933                 Social issues in literature: Race relations in Alan Paton's Cry, the

SOC                      beloved country / Dedria Bryfonski, book editor.  -- Detroit :

                             Greenhaven Press, c2009. -- (Social issues in literature)

 

809.933                 Social issues in literature: Racism in Harper Lee's To kill a

SOC                      mockingbird / Candice Mancini, book editor.  -- Detroit, MI :

                             Greenhaven Press, c2008. -- (Social issues in literature)

 

809.933                 Social issues in literature: Racism in The autobiography of Malcolm

SOC                      X / Candice Mancini, book editor.  -- Detroit : Greenhaven Press,

                             c2009. -- (Social issues in literature)

 

809.933                 Social issues in literature: Racism in Maya Angelou's I know why

SOC                      the caged bird sings / Claudia Johnson, book editor.  -- Detroit, MI :

                             Greenhaven Press, c2008. -- (Social issues in literature)

                                    

809.933                 Social issues in literature: Social and psychological disorder in the

SOC                      works of Edgar Allan Poe / Claudia Durst Johnson, book editor.  --

                             Detroit : Greenhaven Press, c2010. -- (Social issues in literature)

                                    

809.933                 Social issues in literature: Suicide in Arthur Miller's Death of a

SOC                      salesman / Alicia Cafferty Lerner and Adrienne Wilmoth Lerner, book

                             editors.  -- Farmington Hills, MI : Greenhaven Press, c2008. -- (Social

                             issues in literature)

 

809.933                 Social issues in literature: The abuse of power in George Orwell's

SOC                      Nineteen eighty-four / Dedria Bryfonski, book editor.  -- Detroit :

                             Greenhaven Press, c2010. -- (Social issues in literature)

 

809.933                 Social issues in literature: The American dream in John Steinbeck's

SOC                      of Mice and men / Hayley Mitchell Haugen, editor.  -- Detroit :

                             Greenhaven Press, c2010. -- (Social issues in literature)

 

809.933                 Social issues in literature: The environment in Henry David

SOC                      Thoreau's Walden / Gary Wiener, book editor.  -- Detroit :

                             Greenhaven Press, c2010. -- (Social issues in literature)

                                    

809.933                 Social issues in literature: Violence in William Golding's Lord of the

SOC                      flies / Dedria Bryfonski, book editor.  -- Detroit : Greenhaven Press,

                             c2010. -- (Social issues in literature)

                                    

809.933                 Social issues in literature: War in Joseph Heller's Catch-22 / Dedria

SOC                      Bryfonski, book editor.  -- Detroit : Greenhaven Press, c2009. -- (

                             Social issues in literature)

                                    

809.933                 Social issues in literature: War in Stephen Crane's The red badge of

SOC                      courage / David Haugen and Susan Musser, book editor.  -- Detroit :

                             Greenhaven Press, c2010. -- (Social issues in literature)

 

809.933                 Social issues in literature: Women's issues in Amy Tan's The Joy

SOC                      Luck Club / Gary Wiener, book editor.  -- Detroit, MI : Greenhaven

                             Press, c2008. -- (Social issues in literature)

                                    

809.933                 Social issues in literature: Women's issues in Nathaniel

SOC                      Hawthorne's The scarlet letter / Claudia Durst Johnson, book editor. 

                             -- Detroit : Greenhaven Press, c2009. -- (Social issues in literature)

                                    

809.933                 Social issues in literature: Workers' rights in Upton Sinclair's The

SOC                      jungle / Gary Wiener, book editor.  -- Detroit : Greenhaven

                             Press/Gale, c2008. -- (Social issues in literature)