Autobiographical Occasions and Original Acts: Versions of American Identity from Henry Adams to Nate Shaw. This item is unavailable.
Language: English
Published by University of Pennsylvania Press, 1982
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- Title
- Autobiographical Occasions and Original Acts: Versions of American Identity from Henry Adams to Nate Shaw
- Author
- Stone, Albert E.
- Publisher
- University of Pennsylvania Press
- Publication year
- 1982
- Condition
- Very Good
- Dust jacket
- No Jacket
- Binding
- Paperback
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0812211278
- ISBN 13
- 9780812211276
- Item weight
- 1.3 pounds
Gives an anaylsis of the social themes and cultural perspectives of modern American autobiographies.
"An excellent reference for students of autobiography, an essential text for students of American autobiography, and the central critical work for students of modern American autobiography."--James Olney
"Stone displays a breadth of scholarship that is impressive. There are scores of allusions to lives other than the ones under discussion, and there are frequent references . . . which make this a truly interdisciplinary study and for which Stone should be strongly commended."--Literature and History
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Review
"An excellent reference for students of autobiography, an essential text for students of American autobiography, and the central critical work for students of modern American autobiography."--James Olney
"Stone displays a breadth of scholarship that is impressive. There are scores of allusions to lives other than the ones under discussion, and there are frequent references . . . which make this a truly interdisciplinary study and for which Stone should be strongly commended."--Literature and History
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