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author Emory Elliott, general editor ; associate

editors, Martha Banta ... [et al.] ; advisory

editors, Houston A. Baker ... [et al.].

imprint New York : Columbia University Press, 1988.

description xxviii, 1263 p.

ISBN 0231058128 (alk. paper)

Columbia literary history of the United States /

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subject American literature--History and criticism.

geographic term United States--Intellectual life.

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added author Baker, Houston A.

Banta, Martha.

Elliott, Emory, 1942-2009

title Columbia literary history of the United States / Emory Elliott, general

editor ; associate editors, Martha Banta ... [et al.] ; advisory editors,

Houston A. Baker ... [et al.].

imprint New York : Columbia University Press, 1988.

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isbn 0231058128 (alk. paper)

general note Includes index.

catalogue key 1873153


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Awards

This item was nominated for the following awards:

American Book Award, USA, 1989 : Won

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Appeared in Choice on 1988-06:

This book invites comparison to the 1948 Literary History of the United States both because

of the repetition of the name and because the editor, Emory Elliott, invites us to do so in the

preface. It does well by the comparison, even though this study is different in important ways.

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This history summarizes where we are now and opens to us the many riches of the past,

without attempting to present its findings for a single critical or dogmatic perspective or to

establish a canon. Indeed a signal contribution to literary history.

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-- Paul Fussell

Main Description

For the first time in four decades, there exists an authoritative and up-to-date survey of the

literature of the United States, from prehistoric cave narratives to the radical movements of

the sixties and the experimentation of the eighties.This comprehensive volume -- one of the

century's most important books in American studies -- extensively treats Hawthorne, Melville,

Dickinson, Hemingway, and other long-cherished writers, while also giving considerable

attention to recently discovered writers such as Kate Chopin and to literary movements and

forms of writing not studied amply in the past. Informed by the most current critical and

theoretical ideas, it sets forth a generation's interpretation of the rise of American civilization

and culture.The Columbia Literary History of the United Statescontains essays by today's

foremost scholars and critics, overseen by a board of distinguished editors headed by Emory

Elliott of Princeton University. These contributors reexamine in contemporary terms traditional

subjects such as the importance of Puritanism, Romanticism, and frontier humor in American

life and writing, but they also fully explore themes and materials that have only begun to

receive deserved attention in the last two decades. Among these are the role of women as

writers, readers, and literary subjects and the impact of writers from minority groups, both

inside and outside the literary establishment.

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A group of experts has contributed sections on all aspects of American literature from the

native Indians to the present.

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