American History through Literature, 1870-1920

Quirk, Tom

Scharnhorst, Gary (Editors)

Charles Scribner's Sons/Thomson Gale

Series Editors: Gary Scharnhorst, University of New Mexico and Eric Haralson, State University of New York, Stony Brook. This is the only series to provide in-depth critical introductions to major modern and contemporary short story writers worldwide. Each volume offers: a comprehensive overview of the artists short fiction-including detailed analyses of every significant story; interviews, essays, memoirs and other biographical materials -- often previously unpublished; a representative selection of critical responses; and a comprehensive primary bibliography, a selected bibliography of important criticism, a chronology of the artists life and works and an index.

Mark Twain: A Study of the Short Fiction (Twayne's Studies in Short Fiction, No. 66)

Literature & Fiction

History & Criticism

Twayne Publishers

Bergsonian "vitalism" challenged the dominance of Spencerian determinism in the early twentieth century and seemed to offer a new foundation for belief in human freedom and individual possibility. Quirk traces the impact of Bergsonism upon the American sensibility and shows how individual writers -- particularly two such different artists as Willa Cather and Wallace Stevens -- appropriated vitalistic notions and made them serve the peculiar requirements of their own unique creative imaginations. Originally published in 1990. A UNC Press Enduring Edition -- UNC Press Enduring Editions use the latest in digital technology to make available again books from our distinguished backlist that were previously out of print. These editions are published unaltered from the original, and are presented in affordable paperback formats, bringing readers both historical and cultural value.

Bergson and American Culture: The Worlds of Willa Cather and Wallace Stevens

Reference

The University of North Carolina Press

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. A UNC Press Enduring Edition -- UNC Press Enduring Editions use the latest in digital technology to make available again books from our distinguished backlist that were previously out of print. These editions are published unaltered from the original, and are presented in affordable paperback formats, bringing readers both historical and cultural value.

Writing the American Classics

Biographies & Memoirs

Bergson and American Culture: The Worlds of Willa Cather and Wallace Stevens (Enduring Editions)

Realism and Regionalism: 1865-1914 covers American literature from the second half of the 19th century up to the start of World War I. Informative study guides provide necessary background information on this time period, suggest helpful areas of research, and list the best secondary sources.

Realism and Regionalism, 1865-1914 (Research Guide to American Literature)

Scharnhorst, Gary

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This&nbsp;set&nbsp;features seven indispensable handbooks that provide useful strategies for studying and writing literary topics. Each volume contains dozens of study guides on a particular period in American literature--including colonial literature, romanticism and transcendentalism, American modernism, postwar literature, and contemporary literature.&nbsp;Each guides examines a particular work, author, movement, or theme, providing an overview,&nbsp;suggesting fruitful areas of research and listing the best secondary sources.

Research Guide to American Literature

Nowatzki, Robert C

Cusatis, John

Anderson, George Parker

Vietto, Angela

Moser, Linda Trinh

West, Kathryn

Franklin, Benjamin, V

Habich, Robert D.

Melville's Confidence Man: From Knave to Knight

Univ of Missouri Pr

Explains the undying appeal of Mark Twain's 1876 classic novel by showing how it can be approached from many different angles, and how each of these appeals to different people in different eras. Also speculates on how the recently discovered 600-page manuscript of an early version might change, or at least augment, our understanding of the book and the author. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.

Coming to Grips With Huckleberry Finn: Essays on a Book, a Boy, and a Man

In Coming to Grips with HUCKLEBERRY FINN, Tom Quirk traces the history of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn from its inception in 1876 to its problematic presence in today's American culture. By approaching Twain's novel from several quite different perspectives, Quirk reveals how the author's imagination worked and why this novel has affected so many people for so long and in so many curious ways.

Coming to Grips with Huckleberry Finn: Essays on a Book, a Boy, and a Man (Volume 1)

University of Missouri

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