Gray A History of American Literature

2. Auflage 2011
ISBN: 978-1-4443-4567-4
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 912 Seiten, E-Book

Updated throughout and with much new material, A History ofAmerican Literature, Second Edition, is the most up-to-date andcomprehensive survey available of the myriad forms of AmericanLiterature from pre-Columbian times to the present.
* The most comprehensive and up-to-date history of Americanliterature available today
* Covers fiction, poetry, drama, and non-fiction, as well asother forms of literature including folktale, spirituals, thedetective story, the thriller, and science fiction
* Explores the plural character of American literature, includingthe contributions made by African American, Native American,Hispanic and Asian American writers
* Considers how our understanding of American literature haschanged over the past?thirty years
* Situates American literature in the contexts of Americanhistory, politics and society
* Offers an invaluable introduction to American literature forstudents at all levels, academic and general readers

Autoren/Hrsg.

Gray, Richard

Über Autor(innen)

Richard Gray is Professor of Literature at the Universityof Essex and former Distinguished Visiting Professor at a number ofuniversities in the United States. He is the first specialistin American literature to be elected a Fellow of the BritishAcademy and has published over a dozen books on the topic,including the award-winning Writing the South: Ideas of anAmerican Region (1986) and The Life of WilliamFaulkner: A Critical Biography (1994). His History ofAmerican Literature (Blackwell, 2004) is widely considered tobe one of the standard works on the subject.