Studies in the American Renaissance
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Published: 1989
Total Pages: 376
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Concise Dictionary of American Literary Biography
Author: Mary Bruccoli
Publisher: Gale
Published: 1987
Total Pages: 352
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKConcise Dictionary of American Literary Biography covers only the American authors most frequently studied in high school and college literature courses. It extracts and fully updates essays in their entirety from the much larger Dictionary of Literary Biography series.The 6-vol. set begins each entry with a helpful chart that instantly shows the important places, influences and relationships; literary movements; major themes; cultural and artistic influences; and social and economic influences that most affected the featured author's work. The set is organized chronologically.Each volume is devoted to a single historical period, covering 30-40 representative writers from all genres. They include:Colonization to the American Renaissance, 1640-1865Realism, Naturalism, and Local Color, 1865-1917The Twenties, 1917-1929The Age of Maturity, 1929-1941The New Consciousness, 1941-1968Broadening Views, 1968-1988The Supplement to the 6-vol. set, Modern American Writers, provides additional information on 20th-century authors featured in the original volumes.
British Mystery and Thriller Writers Since 1960
Author: Gina Macdonald
Publisher: Dictionary of Literary Biograp
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 456
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKSpans much of the modern history of the mystery genre and, along with it, many of the political and social changes from the classical detective story, the World War II spy story, and the Cold War thriller to postmodern detective and spy adventures and the politics of terrorism and confrontation of the twenty-first century.
Twentieth-century American Dramatists
Author: Christopher J. Wheatley
Publisher: Dictionary of Literary Biograp
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 440
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKRepresents the diversity and productivity of American drama since 1900. The careers of playwrights whose works achieved notable popularity as well as critical success are presented in some detail. Emphasis is placed on biography and a synthesis of the critical reception of authors' works.
American Short-story Writers Since World War II.
Author: Patrick Meanor
Publisher: Dictionary of Literary Biograp
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 492
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKFocuses on how writers have established successful literary reputations without having appeared in mass-circulation magazines. Highlights the role of university presses in the success of many contemporary writers; the generally uncommitted and indifferent attitudes of most of the mass-circulation publishing houses; and the importance of prizes that various organizations award annually, and the influential anthologies in which these prizewinning stories appear.
Twentieth-century French Dramatists
Author: Mary Anne O'Neil
Publisher: Dictionary of Literary Biograp
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 552
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKEssays on twentieth-century French playwrights who were largely influenced by non-French traditions, during the greatest age of French theater since the mid 1700s. French drama of the twentieth-century was cosmopolitan, experimental and eclectic and attempted to appeal to a wider audience than in the past. Dramatists came not only from Paris but from the provinces and the French states of the Caribbean as well as from Francophone countries such as Belgium.
Pre-nineteenth-century British Book Collectors and Bibliographers
Author: William Baker
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Published: 1999
Total Pages: 536
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKEssays on British book collectors and bibliographers from the fourteenth through the eighteenth centuries. This period marked the growth of humanism and coincides with the early Renaissance, before the widespread establishment of print culture. Focuseson the historical evolution of a specific library, as well as a collecting family. Discusses the nature and variety of collecting as a cultural activity.
Twentieth-century Eastern European Writers
Author: Steven Serafin
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Published: 1999
Total Pages: 512
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKTwenty-first-century American Novelists
Author: Lisa Abney
Publisher: Dictionary of Literary Biograp
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 456
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthors at the dawn of the twenty-first century focus, predictably on topics that influence their society. Recurring with notable frequency in the writing of contemporary American authors are issues such as the environment, gender roles, terrorism and ecoterrorism, domestic abuse, religion and spirituality, technology, sexual and racial identities, the economy, the family and its construction, drug use and its social ramifications, and a resurgence in regionalism.
Twentieth-century American Dramatists
Author: Garrett Eisler
Publisher: Dictionary of Literary Biograp
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 472
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe playwrights profiled in this volume range from those active at the very beginning of the century to some just emerging by the new millennium. This collection of biographies represents the diversity of both form and content in the twentieth-century American theatre.
