A Cultural History of the American Novel, 1890-1940: Henry James to William FaulknerCambridge University Press, 1994 - 266 من الصفحات This book interweaves a wide selection of the novels of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries with a series of cultural events ranging from Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show to the "Southern Renaissance" of the 1930s. |
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