Linda Wagner-Martin

Broschiertes Buch

A History of American Literature

1950 to the Present

Beschreibung

The History of American Literature from 1950 to the Present offers a comprehensive analysis of the wide range of literary works that extends into the 21st century
Covers drama, poetry, fiction, non-fiction, memoirs, science fiction, and detective novels
Features discussion of American works within the context of such 21st-century issues as globalization, medicine, gender, education, and other topics

Autor

Linda Wagner-Martin is Frank Borden Hanes Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA. She is the recipient of Guggenheim, Rockefeller, Bunting Institute, and other fellowships, as well as holding the Hubbell Medal for American Literature. She writes widely on twentieth-century American literature, biography, women's writing, and pedagogy. Her publications include " Favored Strangers": Gertrude Stein and Her Family (1995), The Oxford Companion to Women's Writing in the United States and its anthology(1995), Sylvia Plath: A Literary Life (1999/2003), Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald (2004), Emily Dickinson, A Literary Life (2013) Barbara Kingsolver's World: Nature, Art and the 21st Century (2014) and Toni Morrison and the Maternal, from the Bluest Eye to Home, 2014.

Produktdetails

• Wiley-Blackwell Histories of American Literature
• Verlag: Wiley & Sons
• 1. Auflage
• Seitenzahl: 416
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Juli 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 227mm x 154mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 519g
• ISBN-13: 9781119062523
• ISBN-10: 1119062527
• Artikelnr.: 41786077

Rezensionen

"This commendable handbook should stimulate renewed debate on the canon. Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty." (Choice, 1 September 2013)