The Connell Guide To Joseph Stalin - Softcover

Claire Shaw

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1911187414 ISBN 13: 9781911187417

Publisher: Connell Guides, 2017

Synopsis

What is distinctive about American fiction? What sets it apart from the greatest of English or European fiction? Stephen Fender, who has lectured on the US novel for more than 40 years, explores the forces which shaped it, from the mixture of exhilaration and anxiety caused by living in a New World, to the conscious need some novelists felt to distance themselves from the fusty traditions and ways of thinking of the Old World. Stephen Fender puts ten of the greatest American novels under the microscope... The Portrait of a Lady Huckleberry Finn Sister Carrie My Ántonia The Age of Innocence The Great Gatsby A Farewell to Arms The Sound and the Fury The Grapes of Wrath Native Son

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About the Author

Stephen Fender holds degrees from Stanford, Wales and the University of Manchester. He has taught at the University of Santa Clara, Williams and Dartmouth Colleges, the University College London and the University of Sussex, where he was professor and Chair of American Studies from 1985 to 2001. His books include a study of the rhetoric of the California gold rush, called Plotting the Golden West (1982), Sea Changes: British Emigration and American Literature (1992), and Nature Class and New Deal Literature (2011), about how the American country poor got treated in the novels, documentary photographs and bureaucratic prose of the New Deal liberals. He is now Honorary Professor of English at University College London.

Edition details

• Publisher: Connell Guides
• Publication date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1911187414
• ISBN 13: 9781911187417
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 114