Secret histories reading twentieth-century American literature / David Wyatt.
| Author/creator | Wyatt, David, 1948- |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, |
| Description | xix, 400 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete |
| Subjects |
| Portion of title | Reading twentieth-century American literature |
| 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. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (p. [377]-391) and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2009052701 |
| ISBN | 9780801897115 (hardcover : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 0801897114 (hardcover : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 9780801897122 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 0801897122 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
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