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Gladsky Thomas S., 1939--

Princes, peasants, and other Polish selves: ethnicity in American
literature/ Thomas S. Gladsky.

p. cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN 0-87023-775-6 (alk. paper)

1. American literature--Polish influences. 2. National
characteristics, Polish, in literature. 3. American literature--
Polish American authors--History and criticism. 4. Polish
Americans--Intellectual life. 5. Polish Americans in literature.
6. Ethnicity in literature. 7. Poland in literature. 8. Poles in
literature. I. Title.

PSI59.P7G53 1992

810.9'352039185-dc20 91-42671

British Library Cataloguing in Publication data are available.

Parts of this manuscript have previously appeared in Critique 29
(Winter 1988); The Future of American Modernism: Ethnic Writing
between the Wars, ed. William Boelhower ( 1990); The New England
Quarterly 61 ( 1988); Polish-Anglo Saxon Studies 3-4 ( 1992);
The Polish Review 36 ( 1991); and Studies in American Jewish
Literature 5 ( 1986).

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