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UNINA9910828990203321 |
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Autore |
Newlin Keith |
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Titolo |
Hamlin Garland : a life / / Keith Newlin |
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Lincoln, : University of Nebraska Press, 2008 |
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ISBN |
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1-281-24139-3 |
9786611241391 |
0-8032-1771-4 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (xii, 490 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Authors, American - 19th century |
Authors, American - 20th century |
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Lingua di pubblicazione |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Prologue; 1. Return of the Private, 1860-68; 2. Boy Life on the Prairie, 1868-81; 3. Dakota Homesteader, 1881-84; 4. Boston Mentors, 1884-85; 5. The Earnest Apprentice, 1886-87; 6. Single-Tax Realist, 1888; 7. Life Under the Wheel, 1888-89; 8. Main-Travelled Roads, 1889-91; 9. Table Rapper, 1890-92; 10. The Campaign for Realism, 1893; 11. The Iconoclast, 1893-94; 12. Western Horizons, 1895; 13. ""Ho, For the Klondike!"" 1896-98; 14. The End of the Trail, 1899-1902; 15. Adrift, 1903-7 |
16. ""A Born Promoter,"" 1907-1417. A Son of the Middle Border, 1914-17; 18. Out of Step with the Moderns, 1918-30; 19. The Historian, 1919-29; 20. Fortunate Exile, 1929-40; Notes; Index; Index of Works by Hamlin Garland |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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The first and only other biography of Hamlin Garland was published more than forty years ago; since then, letters, manuscripts, and family memoirs have surfaced to provide, along with changing literary scholarship, a more evaluative and critical interpretation of Garland's life and times. Hamlin Garland: A Life is an exploration of Garland's contributions to American literary culture and places his work within |
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the artistic context of its time. |
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