A New Literary History of America

by W. Sollors and Gish Jen

Book Overview

America is a nation making itself up as it goes along--a story of discovery and invention unfolding in speeches and images, letters and poetry, unprecedented feats of scholarship and imagination. In these myriad, multiform, endlessly changing expressions of the American experience, the authors and editors of this volume find a new American history.

In more than two hundred original essays, A New Literary History of America brings...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674035941
• ISBN13: 9780674035942
• Release Date: September 2009
• Publisher: Belknap Press
• Length: 1128 Pages
• Weight: 3.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 2.1" x 7.0" x 10.0"