World onto stage in Royall Tyler’s The Contrast The Contrast was written in 1787 when America had recently defeated the British in the Revolutionary war, short after the Declaration of Independence. The setting of ...

The author E.L. Doctorow addresses many major societal changes in turn-of-the-century America in his novel Ragtime. Ragtime reflects the effects of business expansion and the progressive reform in the United States. Ragtime tells the reader a lot about the climate of the American society at the tu...

Throughout “Rip Van Winkle,” Washington Irving creates a feature of a henpecked husband, Rip, who goes to the mountain to avoid his wife, but finds that he has slept for twenty years and wakes after the American Revolution. While reading “Rip Van Winkle”, I found that it goes through in a ...