From Home and Abroad

American and British Writers in Philadelphia 1800-1910

Häftad, Engelska, 1995

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This book is a detailed account of the visits of twenty-one famous writers—four British and seventeen American—who visited Philadelphia. Burke focuses on the literary history of Philadelphia. Contents: Preface; Passing Through; Thomas Moore; Washington Irving; Ralph Waldo Emerson; (Amos) Bronson Alcott; James Fenimore Cooper; Edgar Allan Poe; John Greenleaf Whittier; Charles Dickens; James Russell Lowell; Henry Wadsworth Longfellow; William Makepeace Thackeray; Samuel Langhorne Clemens (Mark Twain); Henry David Thoreau; Emily Dickinson; Walt Whitman; William Dean Howells; Oscar Wilde; Edith Wharton; Theodore Dreiser; William Carlos Williams; Henry James.

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Utgivningsdatum:1995-03-21
Mått:164 x 224 x 11 mm
Vikt:213 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:108
Förlag:University Press of America
ISBN:9780819195920

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John J. Burke is Associate Professor of English at St. Joseph's University.

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the delight of From Home and Abroad is not its fleeting sociology but its thought-provoking vignettes.. -- Dominic V. O'Brien, Ursinus College The Philadelphia Inquirer ...this scholarly handbook will no doubt be greeted enthusiastically by students of the literature of the United States. -- Dominic V. O'Brien, Ursinus College ...this scholarly handbook will no doubt be greeted enthusiastically by students of the literature of the United States. -- Dominic V. O'Brien, Ursinus College the delight of From Home and Abroad is not its fleeting sociology but its thought-provoking vignettes.. -- Dominic V. O'Brien, Ursinus College The Philadelphia Inquirer