Brief History of American Lite by Gray, Richard

Brief History of American Lite (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781405192309)

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Brief History of American Lite by Gray, Richard

Brief History of American Lite

$46.95
Brief History of American Lite by Gray, Richard

Brief History of American Lite

$46.95
Format: Paperback
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  • 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


Author: Richard Gray
ISBN-10: 1405192305
ISBN-13: 9781405192309
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Language: English
Published: 02/21/2011
Pages: 432
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.50lbs
Size: 9.50h x 6.60w x 1.00d
By Richard Gray
By Richard Gray
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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.

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