Richard Gray

Brief History of American Lite

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Produktbeschreibung

A Brief History of American Literature offers students and general readers a concise and up-to-date history of the full range of American writing from its origins until the present day.
Represents the only up-to-date concise history of American literature
Covers fiction, poetry, drama and non-fiction, as well as looking at other forms of literature including folktales, spirituals, the detective story, the thriller and science fiction
Considers how our understanding of American literature has changed over the past twenty years
Offers students an abridged version of History of American Literature , a book widely considered the standard survey text
Provides an invaluable introduction to the subject for students of American literature, American studies and all those interested in the literature and culture of the United States

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wiley & Sons
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 1A405192300
• 1. Aufl.
• Seitenzahl: 422
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. Februar 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 244mm x 170mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 750g
• ISBN-13: 9781405192309
• ISBN-10: 1405192305
• Artikelnr.: 32567880

Autorenporträt

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 (1944). His History of American Literature is widely considered to be one of the standard works on the subject.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface and Acknowledgments. 1 The First Americans: American Literature
During the Colonial and Revolutionary Periods. Imagining Eden. Writing of
the Colonial and Revolutionary Periods. 2 Inventing Americas: The Making of
American Literature 1800-1865. Making a Nation. The Making of American
Myths. The Making of American Selves. The Making of Many Americas. The
Making of an American Fiction and Poetry. 3 Reconstructing the Past,
Reimagining the Future: The Development of American Literature 1865-1900.
Rebuilding a Nation. The Development of Literary Regionalisms. The
Development of Literary Realism and Naturalism. The Development of Women's
Writing. The Development of Many Americas. 4 Making It New: The Emergence
of Modern American Literature 1900-1945. Changing National Identities.
Between Victorianism and Modernism. The Inventions of Modernism.
Traditionalism, Politics, and Prophecy. Community and Identity. Mass
Culture and the Writer. 5 Negotiating the American Century: American
Literature since 1945. Towards a Transnational Nation. Formalists and
Confessionals. Public and Private Histories. Beats, Prophets, and
Aesthetes. The Art and Politics of Race. Realism and Its Discontents.
Language and Genre. Creating New Americas. Index.

Rezensionen

"This is a wonderful book. Writing in an elegantly accessible style, Richard Gray offers the reader a truly comprehensive narrative of American literature from the seventeenth to the twenty-first centuries. The entire range, diversity, and richness of American writing are made available here in a single, superbly authoritative volume." --Andrew Hook, University of Glasgow "Drawing upon a lifetime of reading and research in this field, and covering a huge range of material from the Bay Psalm Book to Walter Mosley, Richard Gray's Literature of the United States offers an excellent survey that holds the American cultural tradition in a compelling, synoptic whole." --Paul Giles, University of Sydney "Richard Gray's A Brief History of American Literature is an extraordinary achievement. Gray offers us a fascinating and nuanced overview of United States writing, employing literary sensibility to examine a range of periods and genres." --Susan Castillo, King's College, London