Designed to be compatible with virtually every standard textbook in its subject field, Barron's EZ-101 Study Keys gives you a valuable overview of your college-level course. Classroom-style notes emphasize important facts, remind you what you need to remember for term papers and exams, and help guide you through the complexities of lectures and textbooks.

In American Literature, all main periods are covered, from the colonial period to the twentieth century and the present movement toward cultural diversity. Also covered are key themes and personalities, with emphasis on major figures, including Anne Bradstreet, Ben Franklin, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nathaniel Hawthorn, Henry David Thoreau, Walt Whitman, Herman Melville, Emily Dickinson, Henry James, Edith Wharton, Gertrude Stein, William Faulkner, Langston Hughes, Robert Lowell, Flannery O'Connor, Saul Bellow, Tennessee Williams, Alice Walker, and many more.