A History of American Literature

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Richard Gray

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Updated throughout and with much new material, A History of American Literature, Second Edition, is the most up-to-date and comprehensive survey available of the myriad forms of American Literature from pre-Columbian times to the present. 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 Biography:

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.

Release date Australia

November 18th, 2011

Author

Richard Gray

Audience

Professional & Vocational

Edition

2nd edition

Pages

928

Dimensions

170x244x46

ISBN-13

9781405192286

Product ID

10395176

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