The Cambridge companion to American travel writing / / edited by Alfred Bendixen and Judith Hamera [[electronic resource]] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2009 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (ix, 301 pages) : digital, PDF file(s) |
Disciplina | 810.9/355 |
Collana | Cambridge companions to literature |
Soggetto topico |
Travelers' writings, American - History and criticism
American prose literature - History and criticism Travel writing - History Americans - Foreign countries - Historiography Travel in literature National characteristics in literature |
ISBN |
1-139-80137-6
1-139-00231-7 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Introduction : New worlds and old lands : the travel book and the construction of American identity / Judith Hamera and Alfred Bendixen -- Beginnings : the origins of American travel writing in the pre-revolutionary period / Philip Gould -- "Property in the horizon" : landscape and American travel writing / William W. Stowe -- New York to Niagara by way of the Hudson and the Erie / Christopher Mulvey -- The Mississippi river as site and symbol / Thomas Ruys Smith -- The Southwest and travel writing / Martin Padget -- American travel books about Europe before the Civil War / Alfred Bendixen -- Americans in Europe : Henry James to the present / William Merrill Decker -- Americans in the Holy Land, Israel, and Palestine / Hilton Obenzinger -- Americans in the larger world : beyond the Pacific coast / Christopher McBride -- South of the border : American travel writing in Latin America / Terry Caesar -- African American travel literature / Virginia Whatley Smith -- American women and travel writing / Susan L. Roberson -- Driving that highway to consciousness : late twentieth-century American travel literature / Deborah Paes de Barros. |
Record Nr. | UNISA-996201148803316 |
Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2009 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. di Salerno | ||
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A companion to the American novel [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Alfred Bendixen |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Hoboken, N.J., : Wiley-Blackwell, 2012 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (705 p.) |
Disciplina | 813.009 |
Altri autori (Persone) | BendixenAlfred |
Collana | Blackwell companions to literature and culture |
Soggetto topico |
American fiction - History and criticism
National characteristics, American, in literature Literature and society - United States |
ISBN |
1-118-22036-6
1-78268-318-6 1-280-59834-4 9786613628176 1-118-22035-8 1-118-38432-6 1-118-22039-0 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | pt. 1. Historical developments -- pt. 2. Genres and traditions -- pt. 3. Major texts. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910141335203321 |
Hoboken, N.J., : Wiley-Blackwell, 2012 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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A companion to the American novel / / edited by Alfred Bendixen |
Edizione | [1st ed.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Hoboken, N.J., : Wiley-Blackwell, 2012 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (705 p.) |
Disciplina | 813.009 |
Altri autori (Persone) | BendixenAlfred |
Collana | Blackwell companions to literature and culture |
Soggetto topico |
American fiction - History and criticism
National characteristics, American, in literature Literature and society - United States |
ISBN |
1-118-22036-6
1-78268-318-6 1-280-59834-4 9786613628176 1-118-22035-8 1-118-38432-6 1-118-22039-0 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | pt. 1. Historical developments -- pt. 2. Genres and traditions -- pt. 3. Major texts. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910820105203321 |
Hoboken, N.J., : Wiley-Blackwell, 2012 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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A companion to the American short story [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Alfred Bendixen and James Nagel |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Malden, : Wiley-Blackwell, 2010 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (535 p.) |
Disciplina |
813.0103
813.0109 813/.0103 |
Altri autori (Persone) |
BendixenAlfred
NagelJames |
Collana | Blackwell companions to literature and culture |
Soggetto topico |
Short stories, American - History and criticism
American literature |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN |
1-4051-9717-X
1-78268-571-5 1-282-54825-5 9786612548253 1-4443-1991-4 1-4443-1992-2 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
A COMPANION TO THE AMERICAN SHORT STORY; Contents; Notes on Contributors; Acknowledgments; Part I: The Nineteenth Century; 1: The Emergence and Development of the American Short Story; 2: Poe and the American Short Story; 3: A Guide to Melville's "Bartleby, the Scrivener"; 4: Towards History and Beyond: Hawthorne and the American Short Story; 5: Charles W. Chesnutt and the Fictions of a "New" America; 6: Mark Twain and the American Comic Short Story; 7: New England Local-Color Literature: A Colonial Formation; 8: Charlotte Perkins Gilman and the Feminist Tradition of the American Short Story
9: The Short Stories of Edith WhartonPart II: The Transition into the New Century; 10: The Short Stories of Stephen Crane; 11: Kate Chopin; 12: Frank Norris and Jack London; 13: From "Water Drops" to General Strikes: Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century Short Fiction and Social Change; Part III: The Twentieth Century; 14: The Twentieth Century: A Period of Innovation and Continuity; 15: The Hemingway Story; 16: William Faulkner's Short Stories; 17: Katherine Anne Porter; 18: Eudora Welty and the Short Story: Theory and Practice 19: The Short Stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald: Structure, Narrative Technique, Style20: "The Look of the World": Richard Wright on Perspective; 21: Small Planets: The Short Fiction of Saul Bellow; 22: John Updike; 23: Raymond Carver in the Twenty-First Century; 24: Multi-Ethnic Female Identity and Denise Chávez's The Last of the Menu Girls; Part IV: Expansive Considerations; 25: Landscape as Haven in American Women's Short Stories; 26: The American Ghost Story; 27: The Detective Story; 28: The Asian American Short Story; 29: The Jewish American Story; 30: The Multiethnic American Short Story 31: "Should I Stay or Should I Go?" American Restlessness and the Short-Story CycleIndex |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910140617003321 |
Malden, : Wiley-Blackwell, 2010 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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A companion to the American short story [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Alfred Bendixen and James Nagel |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Malden, : Wiley-Blackwell, 2010 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (535 p.) |
Disciplina |
813.0103
813.0109 813/.0103 |
Altri autori (Persone) |
BendixenAlfred
NagelJames |
Collana | Blackwell companions to literature and culture |
Soggetto topico |
Short stories, American - History and criticism
American literature |
ISBN |
1-4051-9717-X
1-78268-571-5 1-282-54825-5 9786612548253 1-4443-1991-4 1-4443-1992-2 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
A COMPANION TO THE AMERICAN SHORT STORY; Contents; Notes on Contributors; Acknowledgments; Part I: The Nineteenth Century; 1: The Emergence and Development of the American Short Story; 2: Poe and the American Short Story; 3: A Guide to Melville's "Bartleby, the Scrivener"; 4: Towards History and Beyond: Hawthorne and the American Short Story; 5: Charles W. Chesnutt and the Fictions of a "New" America; 6: Mark Twain and the American Comic Short Story; 7: New England Local-Color Literature: A Colonial Formation; 8: Charlotte Perkins Gilman and the Feminist Tradition of the American Short Story
9: The Short Stories of Edith WhartonPart II: The Transition into the New Century; 10: The Short Stories of Stephen Crane; 11: Kate Chopin; 12: Frank Norris and Jack London; 13: From "Water Drops" to General Strikes: Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century Short Fiction and Social Change; Part III: The Twentieth Century; 14: The Twentieth Century: A Period of Innovation and Continuity; 15: The Hemingway Story; 16: William Faulkner's Short Stories; 17: Katherine Anne Porter; 18: Eudora Welty and the Short Story: Theory and Practice 19: The Short Stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald: Structure, Narrative Technique, Style20: "The Look of the World": Richard Wright on Perspective; 21: Small Planets: The Short Fiction of Saul Bellow; 22: John Updike; 23: Raymond Carver in the Twenty-First Century; 24: Multi-Ethnic Female Identity and Denise Chávez's The Last of the Menu Girls; Part IV: Expansive Considerations; 25: Landscape as Haven in American Women's Short Stories; 26: The American Ghost Story; 27: The Detective Story; 28: The Asian American Short Story; 29: The Jewish American Story; 30: The Multiethnic American Short Story 31: "Should I Stay or Should I Go?" American Restlessness and the Short-Story CycleIndex |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910830111903321 |
Malden, : Wiley-Blackwell, 2010 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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A companion to the American short story / / edited by Alfred Bendixen and James Nagel |
Edizione | [1st ed.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Malden, : Wiley-Blackwell, 2010 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (535 p.) |
Disciplina | 813/.0103 |
Altri autori (Persone) |
BendixenAlfred
NagelJames |
Collana | Blackwell companions to literature and culture |
Soggetto topico |
Short stories, American - History and criticism
American literature |
ISBN |
1-4051-9717-X
1-78268-571-5 1-282-54825-5 9786612548253 1-4443-1991-4 1-4443-1992-2 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
A COMPANION TO THE AMERICAN SHORT STORY; Contents; Notes on Contributors; Acknowledgments; Part I: The Nineteenth Century; 1: The Emergence and Development of the American Short Story; 2: Poe and the American Short Story; 3: A Guide to Melville's "Bartleby, the Scrivener"; 4: Towards History and Beyond: Hawthorne and the American Short Story; 5: Charles W. Chesnutt and the Fictions of a "New" America; 6: Mark Twain and the American Comic Short Story; 7: New England Local-Color Literature: A Colonial Formation; 8: Charlotte Perkins Gilman and the Feminist Tradition of the American Short Story
9: The Short Stories of Edith WhartonPart II: The Transition into the New Century; 10: The Short Stories of Stephen Crane; 11: Kate Chopin; 12: Frank Norris and Jack London; 13: From "Water Drops" to General Strikes: Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century Short Fiction and Social Change; Part III: The Twentieth Century; 14: The Twentieth Century: A Period of Innovation and Continuity; 15: The Hemingway Story; 16: William Faulkner's Short Stories; 17: Katherine Anne Porter; 18: Eudora Welty and the Short Story: Theory and Practice 19: The Short Stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald: Structure, Narrative Technique, Style20: "The Look of the World": Richard Wright on Perspective; 21: Small Planets: The Short Fiction of Saul Bellow; 22: John Updike; 23: Raymond Carver in the Twenty-First Century; 24: Multi-Ethnic Female Identity and Denise Chávez's The Last of the Menu Girls; Part IV: Expansive Considerations; 25: Landscape as Haven in American Women's Short Stories; 26: The American Ghost Story; 27: The Detective Story; 28: The Asian American Short Story; 29: The Jewish American Story; 30: The Multiethnic American Short Story 31: "Should I Stay or Should I Go?" American Restlessness and the Short-Story CycleIndex |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910876706003321 |
Malden, : Wiley-Blackwell, 2010 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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