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1 online resource (423 pages) |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
The body and the corporation: Norris, Chambers -- Double consciousness: Johnson, Chesnutt, Du Bois, Washington -- Pioneering women: Austin, Eaton, Stein, Eliot, Williams, Cather -- Performing maleness: Hemingway -- Colored me: Toomer, Hurston -- The rumor of race: Faulkner -- The depression: Dreiser, Fitzgerald, Yesierska, Di Donato, Himes, Farrell, Steinbeck -- The second World War: Mori, Vonnegut, Pynchon, Silko, Hersey -- Civil rights: Wright, Gaines, Baldwin, Walker, King, Clark -- Love and separateness: Welty, Petry, Douglas, Mary Mccarthy, Friedan, Steinbeck -- Revolt and reaction: Mailer, Didion -- The postmodern: Shepard, Beattie, Carver, Delillo, Gaddis -- Studying war: Cormac Mccarthy, Herr -- Slavery and memory: Morrison -- Pa not pa: Kingston, Walker, Ellison, Lee, Rodriguez -- After innocence: Roth. |
| Note |
Description based on print version record. |
| Subject |
American fiction -- History and criticism.
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History in literature.
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Literature and history -- United States -- History.
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United States -- In literature.
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Reading twentieth-century American literature |
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Print version: Wyatt, David. Secret histories : reading twentieth-century American literature. Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2010 xix, 400 pages ; 24 cm 9780801897122 (OCoLC)ocn490811349 |
| ISBN |
9780801897115 (hardcover : alk. paper) |
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0801897114 (hardcover : alk. paper) |
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9780801897122 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
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0801897122 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
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9780801899232 (electronic bk.) |
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