{"product_id":"literary-capital-christopher-sten-9780820338361","title":"Literary Capital: A Washington Reader","description":"\u003cp\u003eWashington, D.C., has long been a magnet for writers and an object of interest and fascination to essayists, novelists, and poets. \u003ci\u003eLiterary Capital\u003c\/i\u003e offers a compelling portrait of the city through the work of seventy authors ranging from early Americans such as Abigail Adams and Washington Irving to contemporaries such as Edward P. Jones and Joan Didion. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eArranged by both period and theme, this anthology begins with the founding of Washington in 1800 and extends through the early twenty-first century. In the introduction Christopher Sten explores two broad categories of prose--historical writing focused on politics and writing about the lives and times of the people of D.C. with official Washington as the setting. Sten also defines a core group of \"Washington writers,\" native and naturalized authors who focus much of their work on the city: Frederick Douglass, Henry Adams, Jean Toomer, John Dos Passos, Gore Vidal, Ward Just, and Susan Richards Shreve, among others. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIncluded are letters, essays, short stories, poems, and excerpts from novels and historical writings by a broad selection of such renowned American and international authors as Nathaniel Hawthorne, Charles Dickens, Alexis de Tocqueville, Louisa May Alcott, Walt Whitman, Mark Twain, Sinclair Lewis, Norman Mailer, Mary McCarthy, and Joseph Heller. The reader also incorporates many writings by well-known African American authors, including Booker T. Washington, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Jean Toomer, Sterling A. Brown, Langston Hughes, May Miller, Ralph Ellison, and Marita Golden.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Christopher Sten\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0820338362\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780820338361\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Georgia Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/01\/2011\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 484\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.86lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.55h x 6.48w x 1.39d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eForeword\u003c\/i\u003e 06\/29\/2011","brand":"Christopher Sten","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44059868365055,"sku":"9780820338361","price":36.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_bedba25a-7155-4c4e-aa0c-a7e9c1dad19b.jpg?v=1685060791","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/literary-capital-christopher-sten-9780820338361","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}