The American canon : literary genius from Emerson to Pynchon / Harold Bloom ; edited by David Mikics...
The American canon : literary genius from Emerson to Pynchon / Harold Bloom ; edited by David Mikics...
The American canon : literary genius from Emerson to Pynchon / Harold Bloom ; edited by David Mikics.
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New York, N.Y. : The Library of America, [2019]
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G 2019/5980 , G 2020/0163
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English
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viii, 426 pages ; 24 cm
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text
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unmediated
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volume
Contents
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) -- Nathanial Hawthorne (1804-1864) -- Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849) -- Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) -- Walt Whitman (1819-1892) -- Herman Melville (1819-1891) -- Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) -- Mark Twain (1835-1910) -- Henry James (1843-1916) -- Edith Wharton (1862-1...
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New York, N.Y. : The Library of America, [2019]
Place of Publication
New York (State)
Date Published
[2019]
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"Harold Bloom is our greatest living student of literature, "a colossus among critics" (The New York Times) and a "master entertainer" (Newsweek). Over the course of a remarkable career spanning more than half a century, in such best-selling books as The Western Canon and Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human, he transformed the way we look at th...
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The American canon : literary genius from Emerson to Pynchon / Harold Bloom ; edited by David Mikics.
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"Five decades of writing on American literature"--Dust jacket.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 425-426).
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©2019
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G 2019/5980 , G 2020/0163
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74VKawMQkjZg
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1598536400 (hardcover)
9781598536409 (hardcover)
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810.9
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991024282005302626
