Quicksand: A Norton Critical Edition: 0 (Norton Critical Editions) - Softcover

Larsen, Nella

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0393932427 ISBN 13: 9780393932423

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, 2019

Synopsis

This Norton Critical Edition includes:

• Nella Larsen's stunning 1928 novel, accompanied by Carla Kaplan's full and far-reaching introduction and explanatory annotations.
• Twenty-seven carefully chosen reviews of one of the Harlem Renaissance's most sensational literary debuts as well as contemporary biographical and cultural contexts.
• Related writings by Nella Larsen repudiating racial stereotypes.
• Major critical assessments by Laura Doyle, Ann duCille, Lori Harrison-Kahan, Arne Lunde and Anna Westerstahl Stenport, Deborah McDowell, Hanna Musiol, Susan M. Reverby, and Cherene Sherrard-Johnson.
• A chronology and a selected bibliography.

About the Series
Read by more than 12 million students over fifty-five years, Norton Critical Editions set the standard for apparatus that is right for undergraduate readers. The three-part format--annotated text, contexts, and criticism--helps students to better understand, analyze, and appreciate the literature, while opening a wide range of teaching possibilities for instructors. Whether in print or in digital format, Norton Critical Editions provide all the resources students need.

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About the Author

Carla Kaplan is the Davis Distinguished Professor of American Literature at Northeastern University. She is the author of The Erotics of Talk: Women's Writing and Feminist Paradigms, Zora Neale Hurston: A Life in Letters, and Miss Anne in Harlem: The White Women of the Black Renaissance (forthcoming). She is also editor of Every Tongue Got to Confess: Negro Folk Tales from the Gulf States and Dark Symphony and Other Works by Elizabeth Laura Adams.

Edition details

• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Publication date: 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0393932427
• ISBN 13: 9780393932423
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 328
• Editor: Kaplan Carla