Writing the American Classics - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0807818968 ISBN 13: 9780807818961

Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press, 1990

Synopsis

This collection of essays describes the genesis of ten classic works of American literature. Using biographical, cultural, and manuscript evidence, the contributors tell the ""stories of stories,"" plotting the often curious and always interesting ways in which notable American books took shape in a writer's mind.

The genetic approach taken in these essays derives from a curiosity, and sometimes a feeling of awe, about how a work of literature came to exist -- what motivated its creation, informed its vision, urged its completion. It is just that sort of wonder that first brings some people to love writers and their books.

Originally published in 1990.

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About this title

About the Author

James Barbour is a professor of English at the University of New Mexico.|Tom Quirk is a professor of English at the University of Missouri, Columbia.

Edition details

• Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
• Publication date: 1990
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0807818968
• ISBN 13: 9780807818961
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 304
• Editor: Barbour James, Quirk Tom