Product Code: HH1056
ISBN: 9780881469943
Price: $45.00
The third volume of ELIZABETH OAKES SMITH: SELECTED WRITINGS offers readers selections from several of her longer works written between 1842 and the late 1880s: THE WESTERN CAPTIVE (1842), one of the first "paperback" novels sold in the United States; BERTHA AND LILY (1854), a novel featuring one of the first "fallen" heroines in the sentimental tradition; THE NEWSBOY, Oakes Smith's second novel of 1854 and her deepest foray into the lives of the working poor; “The Queen of Tramps” (1874-1888), a complete novel left in manuscript at the time of her death; and OLD NEW YORK (1853), a historical melodrama bringing a female lead character to the center of late-seventeenth century colonial rebellion in New York City.
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Product Code: P730
ISBN: 9780881469967
Price: $35.00
SINCLAIR LEWIS: THE 1920s AND THE SHAPING OF AMERICAN IDENTITY argues the importance of words, ideas, and values in sculpting twentieth-century identity. Here, Agran encourages literary scholars and all students of American culture to recognize that Lewis's reception in the twenties was formidable because of his sensitivity to the nation's history, its promise, and at points its troubling trajectory.
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