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    <title>complete idiot's guide to American literature</title>
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    <namePart>Rozakis, Laurie</namePart>
    <namePart type="date">1952-</namePart>
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    <publisher>Alpha Books</publisher>
    <dateIssued>c1999</dateIssued>
    <dateIssued encoding="marc">1999</dateIssued>
    <edition>1st ed.</edition>
    <issuance>monographic</issuance>
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  <physicalDescription>
    <extent>468 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.</extent>
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  <abstract>What book begins "Call me Ishmael?" What's the name of Toni Morrison's first novel? Why is "The Catcher in the Rye" so named? Answers to these questions and thousands more can be found inside this one comprehensive but high-spirited book</abstract>
  <tableOfContents>Part 1: A New Land, A New Literature (1607–1840)
America the Beautiful—and Talented
In the Beginning: America's First Writers
The Revolutionary Period
Washington Irving: Big Daddy of American Fiction
James Fenimore Cooper: Father of the American Novel
Edgar Allan Poe: Father of the Modern Short Story
Part 2: The New England Renaissance (1840–1855)
Ralph Waldo Emerson and Transcendentalism
Henry David Thoreau: A Natural Thinker
Nathaniel Hawthorne: The Dark Romantic
Herman Melville: Into the Deep
Walt Whitman: The Good Gray Poet
Emily Dickinson: The Belle of Amherst
Part 3: Realism and Regionalism (1855–1914)
Mark Twain: The Great American Humorist
Kate Chopin and Women’s Voices
Henry James and Psychological Realism
Part 4: Modernism and Beyond (1914–Today)
The Lost Generation: Hemingway and Fitzgerald
The Harlem Renaissance: Hughes and Hurston
Southern Voices: Faulkner and O’Connor
Postwar Voices: Salinger, Miller, and Ellison
Contemporary Writers: Morrison, Walker, Updike
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  <note type="statement of responsibility">by Laurie E. Rozakis.</note>
  <note>Includes bibliographical references and index.</note>
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    <topic>Literatura estadounidense</topic>
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  <classification authority="lcc">PS 94 R893c 1999</classification>
  <classification authority="ddc">810.9</classification>
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  <identifier type="isbn">9780028633787</identifier>
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