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A History of American Literature (Blackwell History of Literature)
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by Richard Gray
Sales Rank: 291538
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List Price: $42.95
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Cover Type: Paperback with 912 pages
Published by: Wiley-Blackwell February 23, 2004
Written in: English
ISBN 10 Number: 0631221352
ISBN 13 Number: 978-0631221357
Book Dimensions:
9.5 x 6.8 x 2 inches
Weighs: 3.5 pounds
Product Review
"Richard Gray's real achievement is somehow to have compressed more than 400 years of thrillingly rich literary history between two covers." Literary Review
"Highly readable, jargon-free, and engaging." American Literary Scholarship
“This book is the first comprehensive, single volume history of American literature since The Columbia Literary History of the United States edited by Elliott Emory and published sixteen years ago. It is a puzzle, given the extraordinary interest in American literature at home and abroad, that so few full histories of American literature have been published. Consider the fact that the Columbia history arrived nearly four decades after R. E. Spiller’s Literary History of the United States. What makes Gray’s book so extraordinary is that it supercedes the Spiller and Emory texts in nearly every respect, and even challenges the supremacy of the titanic (this pun is intentional), multi-volume, still-evolving Cambridge History of American Literature. How Gray managed to so captivatingly capture the depth and breadth of so complex a literature in under a thousand pages is worth considering. […] Richard Gray possesses the most balanced scholarship of the entire range of American literature I ever read. […] This is the first history of American literature fully worthy of the multi-dimensionality of its subject.” Norman Weinstein, Boise State University
"Richard Gray's real achievement is somehow to have compressed more than 400 years of thrillingly rich literary history between two covers." Literary Review "Highly readable, jargon-free, and engaging." American Literary Scholarship "This book is the first comprehensive, single volume history of American literature since The Columbia Literary History of the United States edited by Elliott Emory and published sixteen years ago. It is a puzzle, given the extraordinary interest in American literature at home and abroad, that so few full histories of American literature have been published. Consider the fact that the Columbia history arrived nearly four decades after R. E. Spiller's Literary History of the United States. What makes Gray's book so extraordinary is that it supercedes the Spiller and Emory texts in nearly every respect, and even challenges the supremacy of the titanic (this pun is intentional), multi-volume, still-evolving Cambridge History of American Literature. How Gray managed to so captivatingly capture the depth and breadth of so complex a literature in under a thousand pages is worth considering. [] Richard Gray possesses the most balanced scholarship of the entire range of American literature I ever read. [] This is the first history of American literature fully worthy of the multi-dimensionality of its subject." Norman Weinstein, Boise State University
Product Description
This major new history of American literature from pre-Columbian times to the present is written in an informed but accessible style by one of the leading authorities in the field.
- A major new one-volume history of American literature from pre-Columbian times to the present.
- Extremely broad-ranging, taking in Native American, Anglo American, African American, Asian American and Hispanic American literature.
- Covers oral literature, folktales, spirituals, the blues, the western, the detective story, the thriller and science fiction, as well as canonical literature.
- Relates the history of American literature to American social and cultural history.
- Takes account of changes in critical and theoretical debates about literature in the last thirty years.
- Written by a leading international authority on American literature.
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