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A History of American Literature - eBook
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▼▲Title: A History of American Literature - eBook By: Richard Gray Format: DRM Protected ePub Vendor: Wiley-Blackwell | Publication Date: 2011 ISBN: 9781444345681 ISBN-13: 9781444345681 Stock No: WW27317EB |
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▼▲- The most comprehensive and up-to-date history of American literature available today
- Covers fiction, poetry, drama, and non-fiction, as well as other forms of literature including folktale, spirituals, the detective story, the thriller, and science fiction
- Explores the plural character of American literature, including the contributions made by African American, Native American, Hispanic and Asian American writers
- Considers how our understanding of American literature has changed over the past?thirty years
- Situates American literature in the contexts of American history, politics and society
- Offers an invaluable introduction to American literature for students at all levels, academic and general readers
Author Bio
▼▲Richard Gray is Professor of Literature at the University of Essex and former Distinguished Visiting Professor at a number of universities in the United States. He is the first specialist in American literature to be elected a Fellow of the British Academy and has published over a dozen books on the topic, including the award-winning Writing the South: Ideas of an American Region (1986) and The Life of William Faulkner: A Critical Biography (1994). His History of American Literature (Blackwell, 2004) is widely considered to be one of the standard works on the subject.
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