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1920., Yale University Press Call No: 973 C557 Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Chronicles of America series Volume: v. 34
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., Scribner Call No: REF Literature Region USA v. 1v. 2v. 3v. 4 Availability:4 of 4 At Your Library Series Title: University of Minnesota pamphlets on American writers.
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[1973], University of Illinois Press Call No: BLK 811 W1334b Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Illini book
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By Tarnoff, Ben2014., Adult, The Penguin Press Call No: 810.9 T189b Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Traces the birth of modern America as reflected by the writings of Mark Twain, Bret Harte, Charles Warrant Stoddard, and Ina Coolbrith, placing their achievements and personal lives against a backdrop of the post-Gold Rush era in California.
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c1994., Dutton, Penguin Books Call No: 823.9 D441c Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: DeSalvo (Virginia Woolf: The Impact of Childhood Sexual Abuse on Her Life and Work) examines here the psychological forces that inform creativity in this lively literary study. Focusing on three 20th-century novels and one play, she presents biographical research to demonstrate how each author exacted revenge through writing fiction. Barnes's play, The Actiphon, according to the author, was a thinly disguised history of the sexual assaults she had endured from her father and brothers. Henry Miller wrote Crazy Cock to strike back at a wife who obsessed him, and the negative portrait of Hermione in Lawrence's Women in Love, DeSalvo argues, was based on former lover Lady Ottoline Morrell. DeSalvo also suggests provocatively that Leonard Woolf's characterization of his wife, Virginia, in The Wise Virgins, as frigid was inaccurate; rather, it was Leonard who was repelled by Virginia's sexual needs. Illustrations not seen by PW. Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc. -From Publisher's Weekly.
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1952., Dutton Call No: 810.9 B873c Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Makers and finders: a history of the writer in America, 1800-1915 Volume: 5
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By Ward, Jesmyn2016., Scribner Call No: BLK 305.896 W259f Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "National Book Award-winner Jesmyn Ward takes James Baldwin's 1963 examination of race in America, The Fire Next Time, as a jumping off point for this groundbreaking collection of essays and poems about race from the most important voices of her generation and our time. In light of recent tragedies and widespread protests across the nation, The Progressive magazine republished one of its most famous pieces: James Baldwin's 1962 "Letter to My Nephew," which was later published in his landmark book, The Fire Next Time. Addressing his fifteen-year-old namesake on the one hundredth anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation, Baldwin wrote: "You know and I know, that the country is celebrating one hundred years of freedom one hundred years too soon." Award-winning author Jesmyn Ward knows that Baldwin's words ring as true as ever today. In response, she has gathered short essays, memoir, and a few essential poems to engage the question of race in the United States. And she has turned to some of her generation's most original thinkers and writers to give voice to their concerns. The Fire This Time is divided into three parts that shine a light on the darkest corners of our history, wrestle with our current predicament, and envision a better future. Of the eighteen pieces, ten were written specifically for this volume. In the fifty-odd years since Baldwin's essay was published, entire generations have dared everything and made significant progress. But the idea that we are living in the post-Civil Rights era, that we are a "post-racial" society is an inaccurate and harmful reflection of a truth the country must confront. Baldwin's "fire next time" is now upon us, and it needs to be talked about. Contributors include Carol Anderson, Jericho Brown, Garnette Cadogan, Edwidge Danticat, Rachel Kaadzi Ghansah, Mitchell S. Jackson, Honoree Jeffers, Kima Jones, Kiese Laymon, Daniel Jose Older, Emily Raboteau, Claudia Rankine, Clint Smith, Natasha Trethewey, Wendy S. Walters, Isabel Wilkerson, and Kevin Young"--
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1936., Doubleday, Doran, & Company, Inc. Call No: 827 L434gr Edition: [1st ed.] Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library
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2009., Alfred A. Knopf Call No: 810.9 S559j Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: In a narrative of immense scope and fascination--spanning nearly 400 years and brimming with Showalter's characteristic wit and incisive opinions--readers are introduced to more than 250 female writers, both famous and little known.
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c1989., Scribner Call No: REF Literature Region Latin America v. 1v. 2v. 3 Availability:3 of 3 At Your Library
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2018., Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers Call No: 809.9332 S966l Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: LITERARY LANDSCAPES delves deep into the geography, location, and terrain of our best-loved literary works and looks at how setting and environmental attributes influence storytelling, character, and our emotional response as readers. Fully illustrated with hundreds of full-colour images throughout. Some stories couldn't happen just anywhere. As is the case with all great literature, the setting, scenery, and landscape are as central to the tale as any character, and just as easily recognized. LITERARY LANDSCAPES brings together more than 50 literary worlds and examines how their description is intrinsic to the stories that unfold within their borders. Follow Leopold Bloom's footsteps around Dublin. Hear the music of the Mississippi River steamboats that set the score for Huckleberry Finn. Experience the rugged bleakness of New Foundland in Annie Proulx's The Shipping News or the soft Neapolitan breezes in My Brilliant Friend. The landscapes of enduring fictional characters and literary legends are vividly brought to life, evoking all the sights and sounds of the original works. LITERARY LANDSCAPES will transport you to the fictions greatest lands and allow you to connect to the story and the author's intent in a whole new way.
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1989, c1988., Knopf : Distributed by Random House Call No: 820.9 E471L Edition: 1st American ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library