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American Mystery and Detective Novels: A Reference Guide

Contributors:: Larry Landrum
Publisher:: Greenwood Press 1999
Subjects:: Detective And Mystery Stories, American--History And Criticism
Detective And Mystery Stories, American--Bibliography

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...found in Hammett's novels, first in The Maltese...William Marling, The American Roman Noir(1995...Cain wrote naturalistic novels of unrelenting hard-boiled proseto describe the American Dream in visceral terms from...

Doing Time in American Prisons: A Study of Modern Novels

Contributors:: Dennis Massey
Publisher:: Greenwood Press 1989
Subjects:: Prisoners' Writings, American--History And Criticism
American Fiction--20th Century--History And Criticism
Prisons In Literature

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...show, the results are often the same as inthe earlier novels. Bunker Animal Factorycarries On the Yard's San Quentin...leastthose segments of society not caught up inthe Great American Dream.25As a product of the 1950's, On the Yardis Braly...

African Settings in Contemporary American Novels

Contributors:: Dave Kuhne
Publisher:: Greenwood 1999
Subjects:: American fiction--African influences
Setting (Literature)
Africa--In literature

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...Afrocentrism: Why Blacks Dream of a World WithoutWhites...1991.Gohdes Clarence. American Novels of Muckraking, Propaganda...She. Five Adventure Novels of H. Rider Haggard...1887. Five Adventure Novels of H. Rider Haggard...

Maritime Fiction: Sailors and the Sea in British and American Novels, 1719-1917

Contributors:: John Peck
Publisher:: Palgrave 2001
Subjects:: Sea Stories, English--History And Criticism
Sea Stories, American--History And Criticism
Naval Art And Science--English-Speaking Countries
Naval Art And Science In Literature
Seafaring Life In Literature

Sea In Literature Sailors In Literature
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...reality of America in the 1840s. In British novels of this period, the perspective from...to examine problems in America's dream, Poe uses it to construct a nightmare...just as little in common with any other American novel.21 The plot concerns Pym and his...

Restrained Response: American Novels of the Cold War and Korea, 1945-1962

Contributors:: Arne Axelsson
Publisher:: Greenwood Press 1990
Subjects:: Military History In Literature
American Fiction--20th Century--History And Criticism
War Stories, American--History And Criticism
Korean War, 1950-1953--Literature And The War
Cold War In Literature

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...also helped establish whatamounts to a subgenre of Korean War novels: tough, action-packedMarine Corps stories, replete with...lack of home-frontsupport, as in the protagonist's wet dream of revenge on those responsible for all restraints and...

Latin American Novels of the Conquest: Reinventing the New World

Contributors:: Kimberle S. López
Publisher:: University of Missouri Press 2002
Subjects:: Historical Fiction, Spanish American--History And Criticism
Spanish American Fiction--20th Century--History And Criticism
Conquerors In Literature
Latin America--In Literature

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...Saer's El entenado 1. To a greater extent than any of the novels examined in the following chapters, Saer's Elentenado has...him their victim, Robinson Crusoe foresees this event in a dream and numer-ous daytime reveries. 6. In an epigraph to The...

Heroic Fiction: The Epic Tradition and American Novels of the Twentieth Century

Contributors:: Leonard Lutwack
Publisher:: Southern Illinois University Press 1971
Subjects:: American Fiction--20th Century--History And Criticism
Epic Literature--History And Criticism
Influence (Literary, Artistic, Etc.)

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...Cooper's Indians.1 The Scottish retainers inScott's border novels also come to mind. All have theloyalty and stolid simplicity...of Sweet Thursday, the four outcasts in OfMice and Men who dream of living together on anideal farm that will never be. Finally...

The Dream Life of Citizens: Late Victorian Novels and the Fantasy of the State

Contributors:: Zarena Aslami
Publisher:: Fordham University Press 2012
Subjects:: Politics and Literature--Great Britain--History--19th Century
English Fiction--19th Century--History and Criticism
Schreiner, Olive, 1855-1920. Story of An African Farm
Hardy, Thomas, 1840-1928. Woodlanders
Gissing, George, 1857-1903. Odd Women

Grand, Sarah. Heavenly Twins State, the, in Literature Social Problems in Literature Afghanistan--in Literature
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...national boundaries. The central mystery concerns two American Mormons, Enoch Drebberand Joseph Stangerson, found murdered in London. The culprit, JeffersonHope, is an American frontiersman. Hope had been chasing Drebber andStangerson...

American Literature and the Dream

Contributors:: Frederic I. Carpenter
Publisher:: Philosophical Library 1955
Subjects:: American Literature--History And Criticism
United States--Civilization

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...eternity in terms of his own time: Moby Dick prophesiedthe ultimate failure of the American dream, without distortion orconfusion. But all his other novels (including even Billy Budd)suffered either from the bitterness of his...

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Black, White, and Huckleberry Finn: Re-Imagining the American Dream

Contributors:: Harry Mensh
Elaine Mensh
Publisher:: University of Alabama Press 2000
Subjects:: Twain, Mark, 1835-1910. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
National Characteristics, American, in Literature
Twain, Mark, 1835-1910--Political and Social Views
Whites in Literature
Race Relations in Literature

African Americans in Literature Literature and Society--United States--History--19th Century Adventure Stories, American--History and Criticism Fugitive Slaves in Literature
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...White Mind: The Debate on Afro-American Character and Destiny, 1817...Monkey: A Theory of African-American Literary Criticism.New York...ed. Three Classic African-American Novels: Clotel; or, the President...

Wright, Richard

Publication:: The Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed., 2013

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......author. An African American born on a Mississippi...a victimized African American struggling against the...African Americans; American Hunger (1977), a...1953) and The Long Dream (1958), two novels; Black Power (1954......

Williams, William Carlos

Publication:: The Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed., 2013

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......Williams observed American life closely, expressed...experience of life in an American city to voice his feelings...include those in In the American Grain (1925), Selected...plays, including A Dream of Love (1948) and Many Loves (1950); and the novels A Voyage to Pagany......

White, Edmund

Publication:: The Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed., 2013

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......White 3d), 1940–, American writer, b. Cincinnati...semiautobiographical trilogy of novels tracing the protagonist...s other works are the novels The Married Man (2000), Fanny (2003), Hotel de Dream (2007), and Jack Holmes......

Berger, Thomas

Publication:: The Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed., 2013

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......bûr´gər), 1924–, American novelist, b. Cincinnati...for bitterly comic novels that often deal...chasm between the American dream and middle-class...of 20th-century American life. Berger has...1985). His other novels include The Feud......

Chesnutt, Charles Waddell

Publication:: The Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed., 2013

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......Chesnutt (wädĕl´), 1858–1932, American author and lawyer, b. Cleveland, Ohio...The Wife of His Youth (1899), and the novels The House Behind the Cedars (1900) and The Colonel's Dream (1905). Critics consider his finest......

Mailer, Norman

Publication:: The Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed., 2013

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......Mailer), 1923–2007, American writer, b. Long Branch...the most significant novels to emerge from the war...literary fame. His next two novels, Barbary Shore (1951...More successful was An American Dream (1966), an exploration......

Buntline, Ned

Publication:: The Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed., 2013

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......Carroll Judson, 1823–86, American adventurer and writer. In...wrote more than 400 action novels, forerunners of the dime novels. Typical are The Mysteries...Delorme; or, The Comanche's Dream (1860). In 1872 he persuaded......

Greene, Graham

Publication:: The Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed., 2013

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......psychological drama, his novels are essentially parables...God. Some of his 26 novels have been ranked as...America. Many of his novels are set in locations...interest: The Quiet American (1955) a prescient...A World of My Own: A Dream Diary (1995); S......

Dick, Philip K.

Publication:: The Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed., 2013

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......Kindred Dick), 1928–82, American science-fiction writer...1952; the first of his 36 novels, Solar Lottery, was published...classics. Among his best-known novels are Time Out of Joint (1959...notably the novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (1968......

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Maxwell, William Keepers, Jr.

Publication:: The Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed., 2013

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......Keepers Maxwell, Jr., 1908–2000, American novelist, short-story writer, and...cent. Midwest of his youth. His six novels include Bright Center of Heaven (1934...1995) and his essays in The Outermost Dream (1989). Maxwell also wrote children......