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The Professions of Authorship

Essays in Honor of Matthew J. Bruccoli

By: Matthew Joseph Bruccoli

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The Professions of Authorship

Essays in Honor of Matthew J. Bruccoli

By: Matthew Joseph Bruccoli

A tribute to a man whose life's work has centered on the study of authorship and who is a scholar and book collector of the first magnitude, The Professions of Authorship examines the business of writing, publishing, and selling books - or what George V. Higgins describes in this volume as a "perplexing, disorganized, chameleonic enterprise". Twenty-three authors, publishing professionals, and scholars who share Matthew J. Bruccoli's love and knowledge of books offer candid observations and opinions about the past, present, and future of publishing. In doing so, they unravel many of the mysteries surrounding this tradition-bound endeavor.

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Univ of South Carolina Press

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1570031444

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Charles W. Chesnutt: Essays and Speeches

Essays and Speeches

By: Joseph R. McElrath, Jr.,Robert C. Leitz,Jesse S. Crisler

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Charles W. Chesnutt: Essays and Speeches

Essays and Speeches

By: Joseph R. McElrath, Jr.,Robert C. Leitz,Jesse S. Crisler

Charles W. Chesnutt (1858-1932) has been considered by many the major African-American fiction writer before the Harlem Renaissance. This book collects essays he wrote from 1899 through 1931, the majority of which concern white racism, and political and literary addresses he made to both white and black audiences from 1881 through 1931.

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Stanford University Press

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0804744327

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9780804744324

An Exemplary Citizen: Letters of Charles W. Chesnutt, 1906-1932

Letters of Charles W. Chesnutt, 1906-1932

By: Charles Waddell Chesnutt,Robert C. Leitz,Joseph R. McElrath

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An Exemplary Citizen: Letters of Charles W. Chesnutt, 1906-1932

Letters of Charles W. Chesnutt, 1906-1932

By: Charles Waddell Chesnutt,Robert C. Leitz,Joseph R. McElrath

This book collects the letters written between 1906 and 1932 by the African-American novelist and civil rights activist Charles W. Chesnutt (1858-1932). His correspondents included prominent members of the Harlem Renaissance as well as major American political figures Chesnutt sought to influence on behalf of his fellow African Americans.

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Stanford University Press

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0804745080

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9780804745086

CliffsNotes on Thoreau's Walden

By: Joseph R. McElrath, Jr.

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CliffsNotes on Thoreau's Walden

By: Joseph R. McElrath, Jr.

The original CliffsNotes study guides offer expert commentary on major themes, plots, characters, literary devices, and historical background. The latest generation of titles in this series also feature glossaries and visual elements that complement the classic, familiar format. In CliffsNotes on Walden, you discover the most important work of Henry David Thoreau – his exploration of the transcendentalist's striving to realize the possibility of one's own perfection and divinity. What results is an account of Thoreau's two-year stay at Walden Pond, as he celebrates nature as he moves toward spiritual rebirth and fulfillment. Chapter summaries and commentaries take you through Thoreau's journey, and essays help you understand the Transcendentalist movement and Thoreau's place in it. Other features that help you study include A section on the life and background of Henry David Thoreau A section of essay questions and theme topics A selected bibliography Classic literature or modern modern-day treasure — you'll understand it all with expert information and insight from CliffsNotes study guides.

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0822013584

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Frank Norris

A Life

By: Joseph R. McElrath,Jesse S. Crisler

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Frank Norris

A Life

By: Joseph R. McElrath,Jesse S. Crisler

Born in Chicago in 1870, Frank Norris led a life of adventure and art. He moved to San Francisco at fifteen, spent two years in Paris painting, and returned to San Francisco to become an internationally famous author. He died at age thirty-two from a ruptured appendix. During his short life, he wrote an inspired series of novels about the United States coming of age. The Octopus was a prescient warning about the threat of monopolies, and The Pit exposed the intrigues and dirty dealings at the Chicago grain exchange. Extensively reprinted, Norris's works have also found their way into popular consciousness through film (Erich von Stroheim's Greed), and even an opera based on his portrait of the huge, dumb, and murderous dentist, McTeague.Interest in this dynamic writer was wide and sustained, but Frank Norris and his family did biographers no favours. Norris burned most of his correspondence, the 1906 San Francisco earthquake and fire devoured more, and his brother and widow dispersed his surviving papers as gifts. As a result, it was thought impossible to assemble enough material to surpass the single existing biography, published in 1932. Authors Joseph R. McElrath Jr. and Jesse S. Crisler, acknowledged as the leading experts on Norris, have spent have spent over thirty years overcoming these obstacles, devotedly amassing the material necessary to at last fashion a truly full-scale portrait of the artist. Anyone familiar with the breezier existing accounts of the man and hungering for the real story will agree that Frank Norris, A Life was worth the wait.

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University of Illinois Press

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0252030168

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9780252030161

CliffsNotes on Thoreau's Walden

By: Joseph R McElrath

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By: Joseph R McElrath

The original CliffsNotes study guides offer expert commentary on major themes, plots, characters, literary devices, and historical background. The latest generation of titles in this series also feature glossaries and visual elements that complement the classic, familiar format. In CliffsNotes on Walden, you discover the most important work of Henry David Thoreau—his exploration of the transcendentalist's striving to realize the possibility of one's own perfection and divinity. What results is an account of Thoreau's two-year stay at Walden Pond, as he celebrates nature as he moves toward spiritual rebirth and fulfillment. Chapter summaries and commentaries take you through Thoreau's journey, and essays help you understand the Transcendentalist movement and Thoreau's place in it. Other features that help you study include A section on the life and background of Henry David Thoreau A section of essay questions and theme topics A selected bibliography Classic literature or modern-day treasure—you'll understand it all with expert information and insight from CliffsNotes study guides.

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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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0544184513

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Frank Norris

A Life

By: Joseph R. McElrath,Jesse S. Crisler

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A Life

By: Joseph R. McElrath,Jesse S. Crisler

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The Professions of Authorship

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