Richard Gray 
A History of American Literature [EPUB ebook] 

Updated throughout and with much new material, A History of
American Literature, Second Edition, is the most up-to-date and
comprehensive survey available of the myriad forms of American
Literature from pre-Columbian times to the present.

* The most comprehensive and up-to-date history of American
literature available today

* Covers fiction, poetry, drama, and non-fiction, as well as
other forms of literature including folktale, spirituals, the
detective story, the thriller, and science fiction

* Explores the plural character of American literature, including
the contributions made by African American, Native American,
Hispanic and Asian American writers

* Considers how our understanding of American literature has
changed over the past?thirty years

* Situates American literature in the contexts of American
history, politics and society

* Offers an invaluable introduction to American literature for
students at all levels, academic and general readers

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Richard Gray is Professor of Literature at the University of Essex and former Distinguished Visiting Professor at a number of universities in the United States. He is the first specialist in American literature to be elected a Fellow of the British Academy and has published over a dozen books on the topic, including the award-winning Writing the South: Ideas of an American Region (1986) and The Life of William Faulkner: A Critical Biography (1994). His History of American Literature (Blackwell, 2004) is widely considered to be one of the standard works on the subject.