Literature in America: An Illustrated History

By Peter Conn

Book Overview

Peter Conn, profesor de la Universidad de Pensilvania, presenta en esta obra una completa vision de la literatura norteamericana, desde sus inicios en el sigio XVII hasta los ultimos anos del siglo... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521303737
• ISBN13: 9780521303736
• Release Date: August 1989
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 608 Pages
• Weight: 3.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 2.0" x 7.5" x 10.3"

Customer Reviews

Highly Readable, Entertaining, Informative, Scholarly Enough

There is a joke poking around the academe. What individual single-handedly writes a Big Volume work spanning all of American Literature? Answer: the one with the guts to actually do so instead of compiling equally giant tomes of existing essays and skipping away with the Editor credit. Other reviewers, mostly from the aforementioned academe, stated that this would never be the tool of a "serious" literature student. Good thing I don't take myself too seriously. This is a delightfully composed work, broad in scope, and more than adequately informative for all classes.