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  • The New Mark Twain Handbook

    Collections series Routledge Library Editions: The American Novel
    This authors of this useful handbook, originally published in 1985, not only summarise Mark Twain scholarship, but also evaluate, in much detail, the various contributions. Each chapter includes a thorough annotated bibliography. This title also includes a comprehensive chronological table of the significant events in Mark Twain’s Life, including the publication dates of his works. This title will ... En savoir plus

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    Essays from the Classics to Pop Culture

    FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARDAND THE PEN ART OF THE ESSAY AWARDOver the past decade and a half, Daniel Mendelsohn’s reviews for The New York Review of Books, The New Yorker, and The New York Times Book Review have earned him a reputation as “one of the greatest critics of our time” (Poets & Writers). In Waiting for the Barbarians, he brings together twenty-four of his recent ... En savoir plus

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  • The Book of the Month

    Sixty Years of Books in American Life

    par Al Silverman ...
    This collection of essays and reviews from the Book-of-the-Month Club offers a unique literary history of American readership in the twentieth century.From The Sun Also Rises to The Accidental Tourist, the judges, editors, and reviewers of the Book-of-the-Month Club help readers all across America find their next favorite book.In this comprehensive anthology compiled from the Club's monthly News, ... En savoir plus

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  • Workshops of Empire

    Stegner, Engle, and American Creative Writing during the Cold War

    par Eric Bennett ...
    Collections series New American Canon
    During and just after World War II, an influential group of American writers and intellectuals projected a vision for literature that would save the free world. Novels, stories, plays, and poems, they believed, could inoculate weak minds against simplistic totalitarian ideologies, heal the spiritual wounds of global catastrophe, and just maybe prevent the like from happening again. As the Cold War ... En savoir plus

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  • Mark Twain, Travel Books, and Tourism

    The Tide of a Great Popular Movement

    Collections series Studies in American Literary Realism and Naturalism
    Winner of the Elizabeth Agee Prize for best manuscript in American LiteratureWith the publication of The Innocents Abroad (1869), Mark Twain embarked on a long and successful career as the 19th century's best-selling travel writer. Jeffrey Melton treats Twain's travel narratives in depth, and in the context of his contemporary travel writers and a burgeoning tourism culture. As Melton shows, Twain ... En savoir plus

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    COLLISION is a book written to modern America with all its technological advancements, for the purpose of understanding a strange new culture emerging from within its glory from the 7th century since Ted Kennedy opened the flood gates in 1965 without any concern for the inevitable clash that this strange culture would create in a democracy such as ours. Therefore, we will learn everything we need ... En savoir plus

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    Collections series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
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    Reading Common Schools in Nineteenth-Century American Fiction

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