Literature in America: An Illustrated History - Hardcover

Conn, Peter.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0521303737 ISBN 13: 9780521303736

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 1989

Synopsis

Literature In America : An Illustrated History

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Synopsis:

The entire span of American literature, in all its variety, from the early seventeenth century to the late 1980s, is vividly recorded in this authoritative new book. Professor Conn summarises the distinctive achievement of the novelists, poets, playwrights, and prose writers who together make up the fabric of America's literary heritage Classics such as Thoreau, Whitman, and Emily Dickinson, contemporaries like Norman Mailer and Toni Morrison - all are expertly placed in their literary, historical, and cultural context. The scope of the book is enlarged by helpful chronological tables, an annotated guide to further reading, and above all by abundant illustrations. Its almost 200 half-tones and colour plates comprise portraits and photographs of writers, original illustrations from novels, scenes from famous productions of plays, reproductions of manuscripts, paintings, cartoons, and rare printed material - an exceptional range of visual images which enrich and extend the book's discussion.The entire span of American literature, in all its variety, from the early seventeenth century to the late 1980s, is vividly recorded in this authoritative new book.

Professor Conn summarises the distinctive achievement of the novelists, poets, playwrights, and prose writers who together make up the fabric of America's literary heritage Classics such as Thoreau, Whitman, and Emily Dickinson, contemporaries like Norman Mailer and Toni Morrison - all are expertly placed in their literary, historical, and cultural context. The scope of the book is enlarged by helpful chronological tables, an annotated guide to further reading, and above all by abundant illustrations. Its almost 200 half-tones and colour plates comprise portraits and photographs of writers, original illustrations from novels, scenes from famous productions of plays, reproductions of manuscripts, paintings, cartoons, and rare printed material - an exceptional range of visual images which enrich and extend the book's discussion.

About this edition

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 1989
• ISBN 10: 0521303737
• ISBN 13: 9780521303736
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 588