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Culture, Genre, and Literary Vocation: Selected Essays on American Literature
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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher Univ of Chicago Pr
Publication date December 1, 2000
Pages 231
Binding Paperback
Book category Adult Non-Fiction
ISBN-13 9780226041803
ISBN-10 0226041808
Dimensions 0.50 by 6.25 by 9.25 in.
Weight 0.75 lbs.
Original list price $34.00
Other format details university press
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In Culture, Genre, and Literary Vocation, Michael Davitt Bell charts the important and often overlooked connection between literary culture and authors' careers. Bell's influential essays on nineteenth-century American writers—originally written for such landmark projects as The Columbia Literary History of the United States and The Cambridge History of American Literature—are gathered here with a major new essay on Richard Wright.

Throughout, Bell revisits issues of genre with an eye toward the unexpected details of authors' lives, and invites us to reconsider the hidden functions that terms such as "romanticism" and "realism" served for authors and their critics. Whether tracing the demands of the market or the expectations of readers, Bell examines the intimate relationship between literary production and culture; each essay closely links the milieu in which American writers worked with the trajectory of their storied careers.


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9780226041797 | details & prices | 231 pages | 6.25 × 9.25 × 0.75 in. | 1.05 lbs | List price $81.00
About: In Culture, Genre, and Literary Vocation, Michael Davitt Bell charts the important and often overlooked connection between literary culture and authors' careers.
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9780226041803 | details & prices | 231 pages | 6.25 × 9.25 × 0.50 in. | 0.75 lbs | List price $34.00
About: In Culture, Genre, and Literary Vocation, Michael Davitt Bell charts the important and often overlooked connection between literary culture and authors' careers.

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