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Major Characters In American Fiction

by Jack Salzman
Pamela Wilkinson
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Major Characters in American Fiction is the perfect companion for everyone who loves literature—students, book-group members, and serious readers at every level.
Developed at Columbia University's Center for American Culture Studies, Major Characters in American Fiction offers in-depth essays on the "lives" of more than 1,500 characters, figures as varied in ethnicity, class, sexual orientation, age, and experience as we are. Inhabiting fictional works written from 1790 to 1991, the characters are presented in biographical essays that tell each one's life story. They are drawn from novels and short stories that represent ever era, genre, and style of American fiction writing—Natty Bumppo of The Leatherstocking Tales, Celie of The Color Purple, and everyone in between.

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Publisher: Henry Holt and Co.

Kindle Book

  • Release date: September 23, 2014

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  • ISBN: 9781466881938
  • Release date: September 23, 2014

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  • ISBN: 9781466881938
  • File size: 3857 KB
  • Release date: September 23, 2014

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subjects

Literary Criticism Nonfiction

Languages

English

Major Characters in American Fiction is the perfect companion for everyone who loves literature—students, book-group members, and serious readers at every level.
Developed at Columbia University's Center for American Culture Studies, Major Characters in American Fiction offers in-depth essays on the "lives" of more than 1,500 characters, figures as varied in ethnicity, class, sexual orientation, age, and experience as we are. Inhabiting fictional works written from 1790 to 1991, the characters are presented in biographical essays that tell each one's life story. They are drawn from novels and short stories that represent ever era, genre, and style of American fiction writing—Natty Bumppo of The Leatherstocking Tales, Celie of The Color Purple, and everyone in between.

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Literary Criticism Nonfiction