Civil wars : American novelists and manners, 1880-1940 / Susan Goodman

Author:: Goodman, Susan
Published:: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003.
Physical Description:: xv, 198 pages ; 24 cm

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Contents:

William Dean Howells : the lessons of a master -- Henry James : the final paradox of manners -- Edith Wharton : a backward glance -- Willa Cather : after 1922 or thereabout -- Ellen Glasgow : the social history of America -- Jessie Fauset : the etiquette of passing.

Subject(s):

American fiction—20th century—History and criticism
Manners and customs in literature
Literature and society—United States—History—20th century
Literature and society—United States—History—19th century
American fiction—19th century—History and criticism

ISBN:

0801868246 (hardcover : alk. paper)

Bibliography Note:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [179]-189) and index.

Source of Acquisition:

UP-PAT copy: Purchased with funds from the William L. and Josephine Berry Weiss Special Initiative Fund; 20034.

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