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Books by University Professor Emory Elliott






The Cambridge Introduction to Early American Literature(Updated)
(Cambridge Introductions to Literature)
by University Professor Emory Elliott
Paperback, 208 Pages, Published 2002 by Cambridge University Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-521-52041-6, ISBN: 0-521-52041-X

"The Cambridge Introduction to Early American Literature offers students a literary history of American writing in English between 1492 and 1820, as well as providing a concise social and cultural history of these three centuries. Emory Elliott traces the impact of race, gender, and ethnic conflict on early American culture, and explores the centrality of American Puritanism in the formation of a distinctively American literature. Elliot ..."






Encyclopedia of American Literature, 4-Volumes(2nd Edition)
by Susan Clair Imbarrato, Carol Berkin, Elizabeth Leverton, Marshall Boswell, George Parker Anderson, Lisa Paddock, Judith S. Baughman, Carl Rollyson, Advisory Board, University Professor Emory Elliott, Sandra Adell, Professor Matthew J. Bruccoli, Richard Layman, Manly Inc., Revisor Manly Inc., Berkin Imbarrato
Hardcover, 2,000 Pages, Published 2008 by Facts On File
ISBN-13: 978-0-8160-6476-2, ISBN: 0-8160-6476-8

"Susan Clair Imbarrato, Carol Berkin, Brett Barney, Lisa Paddock, Matthew J. Bruccoli, George Parker Anderson, Judith S. Baughman, Carl Rollyson, and Marshall BoswellAdvisory Board:Emory Elliott, University of California, Irvine; Wendy Martin, Harvey Mudd Graduate College; Sandra Adell, University of Wisconsin; Matthew J. Bruccoli, University of South Carolina; Richard Layman, Bruccoli Clark Layman Publishers and Manly, Inc.; and Park Bu ..."






New Essays on Invisible Man(1st Edition)
(The American Novel)
by Robert G. O'meally, Emery Elliott, Valerie Smith, John F. Callahan, Berndt Ostendorf, Thomas Schaub, John S. Wright, University Professor Emory Elliott, O*Meally
Paperback, 200 Pages, Published 1988 by Cambridge University Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-521-31369-8, ISBN: 0-521-31369-4

"Published less than fifty years ago, Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man shares with older classic works the odd quality of seeming to have been in place much longer. It is a novel that encompasses much of the American scene and character: though told by a single Afro-American voice and set in the contemporary South and then in modern New York City, its references are to the First World War, to Reconstruction, to the Civil War and slavery, to ..."






New Essays on Native Son
(The American Novel)
by Keneth Kinnamon, University Professor Emory Elliott, Richard Wright
Paperback, 168 Pages, Published 1990 by Cambridge University Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-521-34822-5, ISBN: 0-521-34822-6

"New Essays on Native Son provides original insights into this major American novel by Richard Wright. After an introductory essay by the editor on the conception, composition, and reception of the novel, four leading Afro-Americanists examine various aspects of this classic fictional account of violent life and death in a racist society. John M. Reilly shows how carefully Wright utilises narrative techniques to subvert conventional Amer ..."






New Essays on The Awakening(1st Edition)
(The American Novel)
by Wendy Martin, University Professor Emory Elliott
Paperback, 164 Pages, Published 1988 by Cambridge University Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-521-31445-9, ISBN: 0-521-31445-3

""The American Novel" series provides students of American literature with introductory critical guides to the great works of American fiction. Each volume begins with a substantial introduction by a distinguished authority on the text, giving details of the novel's composition, publication history, and contemporary reception, as well as a survey of the major critical trends and readings from first publication to the present. This overvi ..."






New Essays on Light in August
(The American Novel)
by Michael Millgate, University Professor Emory Elliott, William Faulkner
Paperback, 160 Pages, Published 1987 by Cambridge University Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-521-31332-2, ISBN: 0-521-31332-5

"... Virginia 1957-1958, ed. Frederick L. Gwynn and Joseph L. Blotner (Char- lottesville: University of Virginia Press, 1959), p. 74. 10. Regina K. Fadiman, Faulkner's "Light in August": A Description and Interpretation of the Revisions ( Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1975), pp. 33-4. 11. "An Introduction for The Sound and the Fury," 709. 12. Carl F. W. Ficken suggests in "A Textual and Critical Study of William Faul ..."






New Essays on Uncle Tom's Cabin(3rd Edition)
(The American Novel)
by Eric J. Sundquist, University Professor Emory Elliott
Paperback, 208 Pages, Published 1986 by Cambridge University Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-521-31786-3, ISBN: 0-521-31786-X

"Increased interest in the role of women and minorities in establishing the canon of American literature has led to renewed interest in Uncle Tom's Cabin. The essays in this volume set out to provide contemporary readers with a critical and historical interpretation of the novel that reflects the best of recent scholarship. In his introduction Eric J. Sundquist attempts to show that Uncle Tom's Cabin boldly takes issue with both proslave ..."






Dictionary of Literary Biography
American Colonial Writers, 1735-81 v. 31 (Dictionary of Literary Biography)
by University Professor Emory Elliott, Emory Elliott, Gale Cengage
Hardcover, 421 Pages, Published 1984 by Gale
ISBN-13: 978-0-8103-1709-3, ISBN: 0-8103-1709-5

"Documents the "two beginnings" of American literature: one established in the austere rhetoric and sacred imagery of the sermon and the personal narrative of New England; another fostered by Enlightenment thought and neoclassical principles ..."






The Cambridge Introduction to Early American Literature Elliott, Emory(Updated)
by University Professor Emory Elliott
Hardcover, 208 Pages, Published 2002 by Cambridge University Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-521-81717-2, ISBN: 0-521-81717-X

"The Cambridge Introduction to Early American Literature offers students a literary history of American writing in English between 1492 and 1820, as well as providing a concise social and cultural history of these three centuries. Emory Elliott traces the impact of race, gender, and ethnic conflict on early American culture, and explores the centrality of American Puritanism in the formation of a distinctively American literature. Elliot ..."






National Dreams and Rude Awakenings
Essays on American Literature, from the Puritans to the Postmodern (American Studies - a Monograph Series)
by University Professor Emory Elliott, Matthew Elliott, Winfried Fluck
Hardcover, 350 Pages, Published 2010 by Universitätsverlag Winter
ISBN-13: 978-3-8253-5833-4, ISBN: 3-8253-5833-X

"National Dreams and Rude Awakenings National Dreams and Rude Awakenings brings together twenty important essays by the late Emory Elliott, a leading scholar of American literature and American Studies for the past forty years. Representing the key areas of Elliott's prolific career, this collection includes essays on the Puritans and their legacy, politics and art in Melville and Twain, the relationship between multiculturalism, aesthet ..."

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