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Product Description: This lighthearted and eye-opening book explores the role of comedy in cultural and political critiques of American society from the past century.• Provides a context, vocabulary, and perspective to better appreciate and understand American humor• Connects historical developments to cultural changes• Includes both academic references and popular works• Covers a wide range of artists over a variety of media• Examines and explains general trends in American comed...read more
By Zeke Jarvis (editor)

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9781440829949 | Greenwood Pub Group, April 7, 2015, cover price $89.00 | About this edition: This lighthearted and eye-opening book explores the role of comedy in cultural and political critiques of American society from the past century.

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9780810891999 | Rowman & Littlefield Pub Inc, July 29, 2014, cover price $95.00

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Product Description: The Beat Movement was one of the most radical and innovative literary and arts movements of the 20th century, and the history of the Beat Movement is still being written in the early years of the 21st century. Unlike other kinds of literary and artistic movements, the Beat Movement is self-perpetuating...read more

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9780810871892 | Scarecrow Pr, June 21, 2012, cover price $105.00 | About this edition: The Beat Movement was one of the most radical and innovative literary and arts movements of the 20th century, and the history of the Beat Movement is still being written in the early years of the 21st century.

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Product Description: This biographical guide introduces readers to the writers behind the most popular, influential, and provocative work in the field of science fiction.• Includes 100 biographies of major science fiction authors, including reviews of key titles• Provides links to examples of the author's work, including brief fiction excerpts, full stories, essays, and novels• Presents nearly 70 author photographs• Provides a subject index and genre tags to enable readers to identify authors for future reading based on the books they are familiar with and enjo...read more

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9781591587460 | Libraries Unltd Inc, December 21, 2009, cover price $65.00 | About this edition: This biographical guide introduces readers to the writers behind the most popular, influential, and provocative work in the field of science fiction.

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Product Description: Dedicated for nearly thirty years to making literature and its creators more accessible and intriguing to researchers, the series presents signed, authoritative biographical and critical essays on writers from all eras and genres...read more

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9780787681531, titled "American Short-Story Writers Since World War II: American Short-Storywriters" | Gale Group, June 29, 2007, cover price $363.00 | About this edition: Dedicated for nearly thirty years to making literature and its creators more accessible and intriguing to researchers, the series presents signed, authoritative biographical and critical essays on writers from all eras and genres.

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Product Description: Romance fiction is one of the most popular literary genres in America today. New writers are constantly emerging, and students and general readers often have trouble finding current information about their favorite authors. This book provides alphabetically arranged entries on more than 100 contemporary American romance writers...read more
By John Charles (editor), Joanne Hamilton-selway (editor), Shelley Mosley (editor), Kristin Ramsdell (foreword by) and Sandra Van Winkle (editor)

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9780313328411 | Greenwood Pub Group, November 30, 2006, cover price $87.00 | About this edition: Romance fiction is one of the most popular literary genres in America today.

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Product Description: This award-winning multi-volume series is dedicated to making literature and its creators better understood and more accessible to students and interested readers, while satisfying the standards of librarians, teachers and scholars...read more

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9780787668433 | Gale Group, November 1, 2004, cover price $363.00 | About this edition: This award-winning multi-volume series is dedicated to making literature and its creators better understood and more accessible to students and interested readers, while satisfying the standards of librarians, teachers and scholars.

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Product Description: This award-winning multi-volume series is dedicated to making literature and its creators better understood and more accessible to students and interested readers, while satisfying the standards of librarians, teachers and scholars...read more
By J. Scott Bryson (editor) and Roger Thompson (editor)

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9780787660192 | Gale Group, March 1, 2003, cover price $363.00 | About this edition: This award-winning multi-volume series is dedicated to making literature and its creators better understood and more accessible to students and interested readers, while satisfying the standards of librarians, teachers and scholars.

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Introduces the various types of fiction known as pulp--including hard-boiled crime stories, science fiction, and erotic and sensational novels--and profiles more than two hundred authors who specialized in those fields.

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9780816045778 | Facts on File, November 1, 2002, cover price $75.00 | About this edition: Introduces the various types of fiction known as pulp--including hard-boiled crime stories, science fiction, and erotic and sensational novels--and profiles more than two hundred authors who specialized in those fields.

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9780816045785 | Checkmark Books, November 1, 2002, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Introduces the various types of fiction known as pulp--including hard-boiled crime stories, science fiction, and erotic and sensational novels--and profiles more than two hundred authors who specialized in those fields.

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Product Description: This award-winning multi-volume series is dedicated to making literature and its creators better understood and more accessible to students and interested readers, while satisfying the standards of librarians, teachers and scholars...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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9780787652500 | Gale Group, March 1, 2002, cover price $363.00 | About this edition: This award-winning multi-volume series is dedicated to making literature and its creators better understood and more accessible to students and interested readers, while satisfying the standards of librarians, teachers and scholars.

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By R. Baird Shuman (editor)

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9780761472438 | Marshall Cavendish Corp, January 1, 2002, cover price $16.01 | About this edition: Book by

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By R. Baird Shuman (editor)

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9780761472421 | Marshall Cavendish Corp, January 1, 2002, cover price $16.01
9780761472445 | Marshall Cavendish Corp, January 1, 2002, cover price $16.01
9780761472452 | Marshall Cavendish Corp, January 1, 2002, cover price $16.01 | About this edition: Book by
9780761472469 | Marshall Cavendish Corp, January 1, 2002, cover price $16.01 | About this edition: Book by
9780761472476 | Marshall Cavendish Corp, January 1, 2002, cover price $16.01 | About this edition: Book by
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Product Description: This award-winning series systematically presents career biographies of writers from all eras and all genres through volumes dedicated to specific types of literature and time periods. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
By Joseph McNicholas (editor) and Patrick Meanor (editor)

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9780787664008 | Gale Group, July 1, 2001, cover price $363.00 | About this edition: This award-winning series systematically presents career biographies of writers from all eras and all genres through volumes dedicated to specific types of literature and time periods.

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Product Description: Although the short story has existed in various forms for centuries, it has particularly flourished during the last hundred years. Reader's Companion to the Short Story in English includes alphabetically-arranged entries for 50 English-language short story writers from around the world...read more

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9781579583538 | 1 edition (Taylor & Francis, March 1, 2001), cover price $200.00 | About this edition: Although the short story has existed in various forms for centuries, it has particularly flourished during the last hundred years.

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Product Description: This award-winning series systematically presents career biographies of writers from all eras and all genres through volumes dedicated to specific types of literature and time periods.
By Matt Theado (editor)

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9780787646547 | Gale Group, January 1, 2001, cover price $363.00 | About this edition: This award-winning series systematically presents career biographies of writers from all eras and all genres through volumes dedicated to specific types of literature and time periods.

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Product Description: This award-winning series systematically presents career biographies of writers from all eras and all genres through volumes dedicated to specific types of literature and time periods. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
By Richard E. Lee (editor) and Patrick Meanor (editor)

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9780787646516 | Gale Group, December 1, 2000, cover price $363.00 | About this edition: This award-winning series systematically presents career biographies of writers from all eras and all genres through volumes dedicated to specific types of literature and time periods.

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Presents 100 entries on children's English language authors and illustrators, providing biographical sketches of each author illustrator. (view table of contents)

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9781563086472 | Libraries Unltd Inc, July 15, 2000, cover price $68.00 | About this edition: Presents 100 entries on children's English language authors and illustrators, providing biographical sketches of each author illustrator.

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Product Description: This award-winning multi-volume series is dedicated to making literature and its creators better understood and more accessible to students and interested readers, while satisfying the standards of librarians, teachers and scholars...read more
By Gwen Crane (editor) and Patrickew J. Meanor (editor)

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9780787631277 | Gale Group, December 1, 1999, cover price $363.00 | About this edition: This award-winning multi-volume series is dedicated to making literature and its creators better understood and more accessible to students and interested readers, while satisfying the standards of librarians, teachers and scholars.

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Product Description: This award-winning series is dedicated to making literature and its creators better understood and more accessible to students while satisfying the standards of teachers and scholars. It systematically presents career biographies of writers from all eras and all genres through volumes dedicated to specific types of literature and time periods...read more

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9780787631062 | Gale Group, August 1, 1999, cover price $363.00 | About this edition: This award-winning series is dedicated to making literature and its creators better understood and more accessible to students while satisfying the standards of teachers and scholars.

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Product Description: Concise Dictionary of American Literary Biography covers only the American authors most frequently studied in high school and college literature courses. It extracts and fully updates essays in their entirety from the much larger Dictionary of Literary Biography series...read more

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9780787616953 | Gale Group, December 1, 1998, cover price $165.00 | About this edition: Concise Dictionary of American Literary Biography covers only the American authors most frequently studied in high school and college literature courses.

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Product Description: This award-winning multi-volume series is dedicated to making literature and its creators better understood and more accessible to students and interested readers, while satisfying the standards of librarians, teachers and scholars...read more
By Joseph Riosenblum (editor)

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9780787618421 | Gale Group, December 1, 1997, cover price $363.00 | About this edition: This award-winning multi-volume series is dedicated to making literature and its creators better understood and more accessible to students and interested readers, while satisfying the standards of librarians, teachers and scholars.

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Product Description: This award-winning multi-volume series is dedicated to making literature and its creators better understood and more accessible to students and interested readers, while satisfying the standards of librarians, teachers and scholars...read more
By Arthur J. Kaul (editor)

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9780787611194 | Gale Group, November 1, 1997, cover price $363.00 | About this edition: This award-winning multi-volume series is dedicated to making literature and its creators better understood and more accessible to students and interested readers, while satisfying the standards of librarians, teachers and scholars.

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Offers essays on forty-one women authors
By Lea Baechler, A. Walton Litz (editor) and Elaine Showalter (editor)

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9780684190570 | Charles Scribners Sons/Reference, June 1, 1991, cover price $157.00 | About this edition: Essays on forty-one women authors

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9780020820253 | Reprint edition (Touchstone Books, September 1, 1997), cover price $27.95 | About this edition: Offers essays on forty-one women authors

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Product Description: Lesbian and bisexual fiction writers (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
By Harold Bloom (editor)

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9780791044940 | Chelsea House Pub, April 1, 1997, cover price $18.65 | About this edition: Book by

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9780791044780 | Chelsea House Pub, May 1, 1997, cover price $36.95 | About this edition: Lesbian and bisexual fiction writers

Very Good in Very Good jacket, 6 1/2 By 9 1/2`` No damage to book save the two Library stamps, No damage to DJ save the sticker on it's mylar covered spine and the fact that it is glued to the book. (view table of contents)

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9780816189267 | G K Hall, December 1, 1989, cover price $50.00 | About this edition: Very Good in Very Good jacket, 6 1/2 By 9 1/2`` No damage to book save the two Library stamps, No damage to DJ save the sticker on it's mylar covered spine and the fact that it is glued to the book.

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9780674372559, titled "Harlem Renaissance and Beyond: Literary Biographies of 100 Black Women Writers 1900-1945" | Reprint edition (Harvard Univ Pr, February 1, 1997), cover price $18.95

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