The Works of William Wells Brown: Using His "Strong, Manly Voice" - Rilegato

Gates Jr., Henry Louis

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ISBN 10: 0195309634 ISBN 13: 9780195309638

Casa editrice: OUP Oxford, 2006

Riassunto

William Wells Brown is considered the first African-American novelist. This volume brings together the most vital and provocative of his non-fiction output.

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L'autore

Paula Garrett is an associate professor of English and American Studies, and directs the Millsaps College Writing Program. She received her Ph.D. from Louisiana State University, with a specialization in Nineteenth-Century American writing and rhetoric. Her prior work has focused on Grace Greenwood, the first female correspondent for theNew York Times; this research has been published in Legacy: A Journal of American Women Writers, Women's Writing, andStudies in American Humor. She is currently at work on a full-length Greenwood project and on an article exploring the humor in Brown'sMy Southern Home.

Hollis Robbins is a member of the Humanities Faculty at the Peabody Institute of The Johns Hopkins University. She received her Ph.D. in English from Princeton University and has an M.P.P. from the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard as well as an M.A. in English literature from the University of Colorado, Boulder. Dr. Robbins is co-editor, with Henry Louis Gates, Jr., of the forthcomingAnnotated Uncle Tom's Cabin (2006), as well as In Search of Hannah Crafts: Critical Essays on The Bondwoman's Narrative (2003) and she is currently writing an article on Henry "Box" Brown.

Product Description

An exceptional copy; fine in an equally fine dw, now mylar-sleeved. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Literally as new2006 pages; Description: xxxviii, 481 p. ; 24 cm. Subjects: Brown, William Wells (1814? -1884) --African Americans --Fiction --African American authors --Biography

Dettagli dell?edizione

• Editore: OUP Oxford
• Data di pubblicazione: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0195309634
• ISBN 13: 9780195309638
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Lingua: Inglese
• Numero di pagine: 519
• Redattore: Garrett Paula, Robbins Hollis